#5 in Top 20 Venice for An Anniversary · ★★★★★
Bauer Palazzo
Campo San Moisè, the only hotel terrace with a 270° Grand Canal view at the bend.
Campo San Moisè, the only hotel terrace with a 270° Grand Canal view at the bend.
"Campo San Moisè, the only hotel terrace with a 270° Grand Canal view at the bend."
Bauer Palazzo sits at the bend of the Grand Canal at Campo San Moisè — the geometric centre of San Marco, three minutes' walk from St Mark's Square — and the property has been continuously operated as a five-star hotel since 1880. Eighty-six rooms and suites across the connected Bauer Palazzo and Bauer Hotel buildings (the Palazzo is the historic 18th-century building, the Hotel is the 1949 Marino Meo-designed extension), the upper-tier Royal Suite Bauer (with private rooftop terrace, the only Bauer suite with the 270° Grand Canal view at the bend) is the working flagship. The asset is the rooftop Settimo Cielo terrace — the only seventh-floor rooftop on a Grand Canal palazzo and the working anniversary cocktail-and-breakfast venue with the 270° canal view. B Bar (the lobby cocktail room) and the De Pisis restaurant (the canal-side dining terrace) are the working anniversary-dinner and -cocktail spaces. Bauer Palazzo is the right pick for the anniversary couple where the canal-bend position and the Settimo Cielo rooftop are the working centerpieces — the trip's working centerpiece is the rooftop sunset cocktail, and the San Marco walking-access geographic position handles the working day.
Royal Suite Bauer (the rooftop terrace flagship) or Junior Suite Grand Canal View for the working couple-of-friends option.
Book the Royal Suite Bauer for the rooftop terrace — the only 270° Grand Canal view from a hotel suite. Pre-dinner cocktail at Settimo Cielo at 6pm. Eat at De Pisis for the anniversary dinner.
Bauer Palazzo sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in Venice for an Anniversary list. It scored an aggregate 9.8/10 across the three editorial criteria — competitive against the field but, on an anniversary-specific factors, the angle above is what earned its rank. For the alternatives in the same Venice neighbourhood, see San Marco, Campo San Moisè and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.
If you have already chosen the dates, our editor recommends booking the room twelve weeks ahead. The best suites with the right view orientation go first, and inventory for the popular months is quoted in months, not weeks. Suite-level rooms with private plunge pools or terraces — the ones that earn this rank — are typically the first to sell out.