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Villa Igea hotel, built in 1875, is located in what is surely one of Venice's loveliest squares, Campo San Zaccaria. It has twenty-one rooms decorated in charming Venetian style (6 singles, 14 standards and 1 superior), half of which look onto the sunny campo and the imposing facade of San Zaccaria Church, considered a Renaissance masterpiece. For history lovers, the relics of eight early Doges lie in the waterlogged crypt under the Chapel of San Tarasio. Legend has it that Casanova spent many a night frolicking in the adjoining Benedictine Abbey (now police headquarters) in the willing company of its then libertine nuns. An important, radical renovation of the entire annex is planned for late fall, 2002. See also: Hotel Savoia & Jolanda |
