Corte della Pietà is a cosy brand-new one-bedroom apartment on the 1st floor of a 16th cent. building located next to the San Francesco della Vigna church with its Palladian façade, in a corner of Venice which has kept so far its Venetian character.
It is an ideal place to visit Venice, with Saint-Mark Square, the Rialto and the Biennale Gardens 10 minutes away walking, while protected from the main tourist flow.
The guests are alone in the apartment which is exclusively for them. It includes a living-room with a kitchen corner and a separate bedroom , aside from a bathroom with a shower.
The apartment is located in the heart of Castello district, considered the most genuinely Venetian.
You can visit in the immediate surrounding of the apartment the Palladian monastery-church of San Francesco della Vigna, the San Giovanni e Paolo basilica, the antique Arsenal and the confraternity houses (Scuole) of San Marco and San Giorgio degli Schiavoni.
Saint-Mark Square, the Rialto and the Biennale Gardens are about 10 minutes walking from the apartment.
There are many retail shops nearby, where you can shop food and drinks.
The closest vaporetto station to the apartment is "Ospedale", which very convenient to go back and forth from the airport thru using the Alilaguna Blue Line shuttle, or to the Santa Lucia train station with vaporetti lines 41, 42, 51 and 52. Likewise, you can get a vaporetto to the Lido or to Murano every 12 minutes either at Ospedale or at Celestia vaporetti stations.
You need to walk about 10 minutes to go to Fondamente Nove vaporetti station to catch a boat to visit the lagoon islands (Torcello, Burano, Sant'Erasmo, ecc.).
It also takes about 10 minutes to walk to Piazza San Marco and to the Rialto Bridge.