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Located in the Venetian district of Marghera, Hotel Mondial offers all modern
comforts in a friendly and welcoming atmosphere. Ideally located, it is a prime choice
for both tourists and business travellers.
Who we are
Located in the Venetian district of Marghera, Hotel Mondial offers all modern
comforts in a friendly and welcoming atmosphere. Ideally located, it is a prime choice
for both tourists and business travellers.
Rooms and services
Hotel Mondial offers 62 guestrooms all with private bathroom and two apartments, each with
one double bedroom, one smaller twin-bedded room and one bathroom.
All guestrooms include air-conditioning with individual climate control, direct-dial
telephone, tv and hair dryer. Guest can choose between our two dining rooms open for lunch and
evening affording maximum comfort and a pleasant dining experience.
Out delicious
cuisine is prepared with the finest ingredients and offers traditional dishes and a
wide selection of local wines. Special dietary requirements catered on request.
Our bar lounge is open round-the-clock and offers our guests a friendly,
fully-air-conditioned area where to relax.
The lobby is elegantly appointed with
comfortable seating areas and an air-conditioned TV room, the ideal place where to
unwind after a day of sightseeing or business meetings. An Internet point is
available in the lobby for our guests with access to the net through an
professional-level ADSL connection.
Hotel Mondial features a multi-purpose conference room with a seating capacity of 50, amplification
system with two microphones, video-projector with connection to a VHS player and DVD player, and
the possibility of connecting the participants PCs for projection or presentation.
Where we are
The hotel is ideally located (in the district of Venice-Marghera) just 100 meters
from the Venezia Mestre railway station, and 5-minute drive from the motorway exists.
The Venezia-Tessera airport is only 10 minutes away.
Guests can easily reach Venice city center (5 minutes) either by public transport
(buses n° 6 and 6/ bus stop in the front of the hotel) or by shuttle train connecting
Venezia-Mestre station to Venezia S.Lucia, and leave the car in the ample parking
facilities of the hotel.
Useful links
Ferrovie dello Stato
The link with the page giving directly all time tables of trains departing or
arriving to and from all Italian towns.
ACTV
The administration of public transport of Venice-Mestre: time tables and lines
of buses from the mainland and boats crossing the channels of the town.
ATVO
The administration of public transport connecting Venice with all other towns of the
district and region. In the page: time tables, itineraries and routes.
Alitalia
The page of the national airline. The airport of Venice - Marco Polo is only a few km far
from the town and is reachable also from San Marco by a direct line of
motorboats.
"Marco Polo" International Airport
The page of the international airport of Venice, where you can find all connections
to other Italian and European towns, airlines and schedules.
Venice Port
In this page you will get information about organisation statistics and news
of the port, revised by the port authority of Venice.
Società Autostrade
It offers information about the Italian motorways, the "blue points",
viacard and telepass supplying also information about present traffic conditions and
weather.
MUSEUMS
MUSEIONLINE
Site with all Italian museums
VARIOUS
Casino' Municipale di Venezia (Sede invernale)
For information phone 041 5297111
Azienda Promozione Turistica
A guide of Venice always update to enjoy your stay. Here you will find all events,
itineraries, strands, rooms and whatever you don't have to miss.
Venice Carnival
The most famous Carnival all over the world !
The history, culture how it was and how it is.
Comune di Venezia
The page of the Administration of the Town of Venice.
Provincia di Venezia
The page of the District of Venice.
Regione Veneto
The page of the Region Veneto.
Collegium Ducale
The orchestra Collegium Ducale of Venice brings together musicians from the
best orchestras of the region and has a rich repertory from the Baroque to
1900.
Venice and events
During the year a lot of world wide events take place in Venice: the Carnival, the Historical
Regata, the Biennale of Arts, and many other important exhibitions held in various museums.
Most of holidays and big events take place in the spring and summertime:
San Marco on April 25th
The day of Sensa (ascension) in late spring with the evocation of the "marriage of the sea"
In may the Vogalonga, big regatta day in town
The redeemer day (Redentore) on the 3rd Sunday in July, with the traditional night trip by boat and fire games in the laguna
On the first Sunday in September the spectacular historical Regatta in the Canal Grande
The Biennale of arts at Giardini (Gardens) in summer every two years
The Festival of Cinema at the Lido and the literature award Supercampiello in the frame of Palazzo Ducale
In the autumn and winter time, too there are lots of occasions of feast and amusement:
The Madonna della Salute holiday on November 21, one of the cherished by the inhabitants
Carnival in Venice has risen up from its ashes and become a huge event, able to attract curiosity and visitors from all over the world.
EVENTS
Regata delle Befane - 6th January - Canal Grande
The historical regatta along the Canal Grande, raced by regatta champions in fancy dresses.
Venice Carnival - February (15 days before the Lent) - Venezia
It is the most known among venetian traditional events. Thousands of fancy dressed
people come from all over the world for sharing a busy time table of happenings and amusements.
Vogalonga - May (the sunday after the Ascension) - Laguna di Venezia
The Vogalonga is the regatta and venetian row festival. Thousands of boats defile in
front of San Marco through the most important islands of the lagoon.
Festa della Sensa - May (last week of the month) - San Nicolò (Lido di Venezia)
The feast of Sensa celebrates the "marriage with the sea". During a special ceremony on the
water the ring of the bond with the sea is thrown from Bucintoro in front of the
port of S. Andrea, water door of Venice.
Festa del Redentore - July (the third sunday of the month) - Bacino San Marco
It is the famous feast ending with fire games. In the basin of San Marco thousands of
boats get together and wait by tasting typical venetian for the big final
Regata Storica - September (the first sunday of the month) - Canal Grande
The historical Regatta is an ancient competition on the traditional
venetian boats. Men and women are busy to defile through the heart of the town.
Campiello Awards - September (first/second sunday of the month) - Palazzo Ducale
It is probably the most important Italian literature award. In the wonderful frame of
the inner court of Palazzo Ducale an international jury rewards the best literature works of the year
Venice Marathon - October (middle of month) - Strà (Riv. del Brenta)
The Venice marathon is the most important international sport competition taking
place in Venice. One of the most famous marathons of the world offers the charm
of a wonderful environment with the arrival close to Piazza San Marco.
Teatro la Fenice, Venice
The Venetian opera house was inaugurated in 1792 with “I giochi di Agrigento” by
Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816). Destroyed by fire in 1836 and rebuilt identical to
the original, in the 19th century it staged numerous opera premierei like Gioacchino
Rossini’s Tancredi (1813), Vincenzo Bellini’s Beatrice di Tenda (1832), and Rigoletto
by Giuseppe Verdi (1851) who was however t oexperience the disastrous fiasco of Traviata
when it opened in this theatre in 1853. Home to a rich opera season and an international
Festival of Contemporary Music the theatre was once again destroyed by fire in 1996.
True to its name, the new Fenice was completely rebuilt and inaugurated in December 2003.
Arena di Verona
The Arena Opera Festival came into existence thanks to the efforts of a tenor and various
business man, and institutions have continued his work until the present day.
In the summer of 1913, the tenor Giovanni Zenatello and the theatre business man Ottone
Rovato took on the financial risk of promoting a magnificent opera festival to celebrate the
centennial of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi. With the staging of Aida, the Arena of Verona
became the biggest open-air house in the world, a supremacy that it still holds today.
TOURS
From S. Pietro in Castello to Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo
The history of the settlement on the islands that make up Venice began in the 5th century AD.
The barbarian tribes that overran the territories inhabited by the Veneti and the sack of
Eracleaand Torcello bye the Lombards, convinced the local populations to abandon their home
towns and install the first duke or “doge” on Malamocco. The area later known as Castello
was the first to be settled and the basilica that later rose in S. Pietro in Castello was to
be the first cathedral of Venice. When crossing the bridge that leads to the church, look
for a flagstone that is lighter than the sourroundings ones – it marks the exact spot
where the Doge, when visiting the Patriarch, relinquished his power to yield the
greater power of the Church. From S. Pietro in Castello, walk along the lagoon edge
down Riva degli Schiavoni, as far as the church of S. Zaccaria, an important monument
both because of the particular beautyof its architecture and the great masterpieces it
contains. One of the highlights is certainly the celebrated altarpiece by Bellini
“The Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints and Angels”, but do not miss the lower-level
chapel of St. Anastasius where the shrine containing the saint’s relics now in the church
was originally kept and where you can see the original primitive church with his floor
now underwater.A few minutes walk will take you to Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo. This
large square was the second most important area after St. Mark’s Square. The backdrop
to the square is the Scuola di S. Marco, now housing the city hospital, before which
stands the famous equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni by Verrocchio. The great
church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo is also known as the Venetian Pantheon because so
many doges and heroes of the Serenissima are buried there and because of the great art
masterpieces decorating its walls.
From Accademia to Madonna dell’Orto
If you are looking for a pictorial rendition of ancient Venice, a visit to the Accademia Gallery is a must.
Now housed in the former great school of the Battuti, the Flagellants, it displays paintings by
Bellini, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Vivarini, Palma the Elder, Veronese, Titian and Tintoretto.
Particularly evocative is the collection of works by Carpaccio which will throw the viewer back into
the Venice of her medieval heyday.
The Rialto, then the port of the city and its trading center, was spanned by the old wooden
bridge with the top part that could be raised to allow the taller ships to pass.
Another church housing the funeral monuments of Doges and famous Venetians is S. Maria
Gloriosa dei Frari, the highest example of gothic architecture in Venice. The church
contains many world-famous work of art (by Titian, Donatello, Vivarini, Bellini) and
magnificent wooden stalls in the chancel. A pleasant walk through the Cannaregio district
will take you to the Jewish Ghetto of Venice. The Jewish population of Venice was relegated
here starting from 1527 from the island of Giudecca where the most of the community resided
before. In earlier days, an ironworks had stood in the area, and cannon where cast (“gettati”)
here. Ghetto then probably come from “getto” foundrym and the word soon spread to embrace all
such communities in Italy abroad.
There are five Synagogues in the Venice ghetto, characterized bye the different rituals
they use: the Schola Spagnola andh che Schola Levantina stand in the old Ghetto; the
Schola Italiana, the Schola del Canton, and the Schola Tedesca in the New Ghetto.
From the Ghetto, you can easily reach the church of Madonna dell’Orto, where you can admire
the huge paintings by Tintoretto at the sides of the chancel; again by Tintoretto, the
wonderful “Presentation of Mary in the Temple” above the door to the chapel of S. Mauro.
On leaving the church turn left and you will soon be in one of the quaintest and most
secluded corners of Venice, the traditional boatyard on the Sensa Canal: and while you
are at it, why not take a few pictures of this authentic scene of everyday life in
the lagoon city ?
La Riviera del Brenta
Starting from the 15th century, the Venetian noblemen began building their magnificent
villas along the banks of the Brenta River, making it almost an extension of Venice on the mainland.
Palladio, Veronese, Scamozzi, Tiepolo are just the most celebrated names of some of the artists
that left the indelible mark of their artistic genius on the splendid villas sourrounded by
gardens, in which the main façade is the one facing the water and whose function is to offer
recreation fot the mind, away from the mercantile vocation of the city.
Treviso
“Trevigi is a town situated in the plains, in a pleasant location, with mild and
wholesome air, and a plenty of clear, fresh, sweet-tasting water” There are the words
used by the famous 18th century Venetian geographer Salmon to describe Treviso. The town
rises at the watersmeet of two streams, Cagnan and Roggia (Siletto), and the river Sile,
navigable from Treviso to its mouth in the Venetian lagoon, runs through its center. In the
Middle Ages Treviso was surrounded by a curtain wall, and it is inside the walled town that
the sights are concentrated. The hearth ot the town is the great square, Piazza dei Signori,
with Palazzo dei Trecento and its frescoed loggia. Behind the square stands the historical
palace of Monte di Pietà, (the municipal pawn bank) from which a maze of narrow streets and
alleys radiate to reach the canals, offering glimpse of the picturesque arcades of the portico
dei Buranelli, and the fish market. Brightly lit Calzamaggiore, the old Roman street, runs
between Piazza dei Signori and Piazza del Duomo, lined with smart shops and elegant facades;
other smaller squares, like piazza Pola, piazza San Vito and piazza Rinaldi, recall the
structure of the Venetian campiello.
The greatest art treasures of Treviso are to be found in its churches, like the cycle of
frescoes dedicated to St. Ursula in the church of Santa Caterina and those in the Capther
Hall at the church of San Nicolò; two other churches are worth mentioning: San Francesco
and San Vito.
The works of many great artists adorn other churches in the town, like the
important altaipiece by Titian in the Chatedral.
Not to be missed are also the collections of the Museo Civico “L. Bailo” and the
temporary exhibitions at the Casa dei Carraresi.
Contacts
Hotel Mondial
Via Rizzardi 21
30175 Venezia Marghera
Italia
Tel. +39 041930167
Fax +39 041930371
info@hotelmondial.it
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