St. Regis Venice is the only hotel in the city built from the strategic merger of five separate 17th-century palaces, creating the largest privately controlled waterfront on the Grand Canal—a scale of dominance legally impossible to replicate today. Anchored by Palazzo Badoer Tiepolo, the ancestral seat of a founding Apostolic family that produced multiple Doges, … Continue reading St. Regis Venice: The Five-Palazzo Grand Canal Estate Where the Venetian Republic’s Elite Commanded Trade