GRITTI PALACE

Venice, Italy

Hotel | from 1200€ per night

Few hotels anywhere carry this kind of weight. A 15th-century palazzo on the Grand Canal, once home to Doge Andrea Gritti, later a favourite haunt of Hemingway and Somerset Maugham. The walls are lined with images of every star who has stayed through the centuries. If you’re not staying as a guest, you can still visit the hotel's bar, the Club del Doge, serves one of the best Negronis in the city, and the terrace at that hour is considerably calmer than during dinner service.