{"id":165677,"date":"2026-10-23T13:25:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T17:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fsmadmin.vsitesting3.com\/magazine\/?p=165677"},"modified":"2026-10-23T13:25:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T17:25:41","slug":"venice-reclaimed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/from-the-magazine\/venice-reclaimed\/","title":{"rendered":"Venice Reclaimed: The Floating City&#8217;s Sparkling New Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fsm-classic-feature\" data-fsm-layout=\"feature-a-v1\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns row g-0 is-layout-flex wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column col-md-6 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-right: 16px;\">\n<p>For years, the story of Venice was one of decline. The population was shrinking. Grand palazzi sat empty. Locals lamented that the city had become overrun by day-trippers and cruise ship passengers who came, shopped, ate, and left. Critics predicted that Venice would soon be nothing more than a shrine to its own past.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column col-md-6 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-left: 16px;\">\n<p>How wrong they were. Today, Venice is one of Europe\u2019s most vibrant cultural capitals. Designers and collectors are restoring palazzi and opening galleries and foundations. Artisans are finding new patrons. Venice\u2019s events calendar has become richer and more robust with the addition of such standouts as <a href=\"https:\/\/theveniceglassweek.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Venice Glass Week<\/a>, which ran in mid-September this year.<\/p>\n<p>And now the legendary Danieli\u2014reopening as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/venice\/\">Danieli, Venezia, A Four Seasons Hotel<\/a>\u2014has been revitalized for a new generation of travellers. Under the direction of the renowned French interior designer Pierre-Yves Rochon, the hotel\u2019s landmark neo-Gothic lobby in the 14th-century Palazzo Dandolo has been carefully conserved, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/venice\/dining\/restaurants\/restaurant-terrazza-danieli\/\">Terrazza Danieli<\/a>, the famous rooftop restaurant with sweeping views across the lagoon, has been refreshed in a luminous palette of sky blue, ivory, and gold. A ground-floor spa and swimming pool\u2014the only hotel pool in Venice proper\u2014will open late this year in the adjacent Casanova building, adding a contemporary amenity without compromising the property\u2019s rich character.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns row g-0 is-layout-flex wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column col-md-6 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<div style=\"width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 2 \/ 3; overflow: hidden;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-165689 size-full img-fluid\" style=\"display: block; width: 100%; height: 100%; max-width: none; object-fit: cover; object-position: center;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DAN_224-1.jpg\" alt=\"A guest room overlooking Plazzo San Marco at Danieli, Venezia, A Four Seasons Hotel\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DAN_224-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DAN_224-1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DAN_224-1-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DAN_224-1-768x960.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A guest room overlooking Plazzo San Marco at Danieli, Venezia, A Four Seasons Hotel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column col-md-6 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<div style=\"width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 2 \/ 3; overflow: hidden;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-165682 size-full img-fluid\" style=\"display: block; width: 100%; height: 100%; max-width: none; object-fit: cover; object-position: center;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DAN_234.jpg\" alt=\"Rooftop dining at Restaurant Terrazza Danieli.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DAN_234.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DAN_234-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DAN_234-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DAN_234-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DAN_234-1025x1536.jpg 1025w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rooftop dining at Restaurant Terrazza Danieli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns row g-0 is-layout-flex wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column col-md-6 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column col-md-6 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cVenice has a historical ambience all on its own,\u201d says Christian Zandonella, the hotel\u2019s general manager. \u201cBut we can live and experience that history in a modern way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more than a thousand years, Venice was one of Europe\u2019s great powers\u2014an independent maritime republic ruled by elected doges whose merchant fleets dominated trade from the Adriatic to the eastern Mediterranean. That remarkable run ended abruptly in 1797, when Napoleon Bonaparte toppled the Republic of Venice, abolishing a sovereign state that had endured for generations and sending its last doge into exile. After periods of French and Austrian rule, Venice became part of a unified Italy in 1866, but its fortunes continued to fade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVenice was poor until 1945,\u201d says Toto Bergamo Rossi, director of the cultural-preservation foundation Venetian Heritage. At the end of World War II, America\u2019s Marshall Plan fueled an \u201ceconomic miracle\u201d in Italy and helped restore prosperity to the city for a time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"margin: 32px 0; padding: 0;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-165680 size-full img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DAN_197_original.jpg\" alt=\"The gardens at Danieli, Venezia, a Four Seasons Hotel\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DAN_197_original.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DAN_197_original-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DAN_197_original-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DAN_197_original-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DAN_197_original-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The gardens at Danieli, Venezia, a Four Seasons Hotel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns row g-0 is-layout-flex wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column col-md-6 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column col-md-6 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Yet even during lean years, Venice retained its magnetic pull. A place of Gothic palaces and Renaissance churches sitting atop countless wooden pilings anchored in the lagoon floor, it is, as the author Jan Morris observed, \u201cnot only the most beautiful city ever built by man, but the most improbable.\u201d Writers and painters including John Ruskin, Henry James, John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet, and Marcel Proust came seeking inspiration amid its faded grandeur, turning the city into one of Europe\u2019s great artistic refuges. As James wrote, Venice \u201cis always interesting and almost always sad; but she has a thousand occasional graces and is always liable to happy accidents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The founding of the Venice International Film Festival in 1932 heralded another creative wave, drawing movie stars to the outlying Lido island. Meanwhile, after settling in Venice in the late 1940s, American heiress Peggy Guggenheim helped transform the city into an international centre for modern art.<\/p>\n<p>But during the globalization boom of the 1980s and 1990s, Venice entered another period of decline. Traditional industries, including glassmaking, boatbuilding, and lacemaking, succumbed to lower-cost production offshore. As jobs disappeared, so did residents: The population of the historic core fell from around 175,000 after World War II to under 70,000 by the millennium. \u201cVenice was shabby,\u201d says Servane Giol, a French-born Venetian and the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rizzoliusa.com\/book\/9782080262165\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Venice: A Private Invitation<\/em><\/a> (Flammarion). \u201cThe palazzi were very dark. Horrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns row g-0 is-layout-flex wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column col-md-6 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<div style=\"width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 2 \/ 3; overflow: hidden;\" data-fsm-image-frame=\"portrait\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid wp-image-165686 size-full\" style=\"display: block; width: 100%; height: 100%; max-width: none; object-fit: cover; object-position: center;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/19_GC_FONDAZIONE-DVN_PH-MATTEO-DE-MAYDA.jpg\" alt=\"Panorama by V\u00e1clav Cigler at Fondazione Drise Van Noten in Venice, Photo by Matteo de Mayda\" width=\"1311\" height=\"1639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/19_GC_FONDAZIONE-DVN_PH-MATTEO-DE-MAYDA.jpg 1311w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/19_GC_FONDAZIONE-DVN_PH-MATTEO-DE-MAYDA-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/19_GC_FONDAZIONE-DVN_PH-MATTEO-DE-MAYDA-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/19_GC_FONDAZIONE-DVN_PH-MATTEO-DE-MAYDA-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/19_GC_FONDAZIONE-DVN_PH-MATTEO-DE-MAYDA-1229x1536.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1311px) 100vw, 1311px\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Panorama<\/em> by V\u00e1clav Cigler at Fondazione Dries Van Noten in Venice, Photo by Matteo de Mayd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column col-md-6 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<div style=\"width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 2 \/ 3; overflow: hidden;\" data-fsm-image-frame=\"portrait\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid wp-image-165703 size-full\" style=\"display: block; width: 100%; height: 100%; max-width: none; object-fit: cover; object-position: center;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/05_GC_FONDAZIONE-DVN_PH-MATTEO-DE-MAYDA.jpg\" alt=\"Pierrot Fleuri by ceramicist Kaori Kurihara, alongside Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua textiles, at Fondazione Dries Van Noten.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/05_GC_FONDAZIONE-DVN_PH-MATTEO-DE-MAYDA.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/05_GC_FONDAZIONE-DVN_PH-MATTEO-DE-MAYDA-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/05_GC_FONDAZIONE-DVN_PH-MATTEO-DE-MAYDA-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/05_GC_FONDAZIONE-DVN_PH-MATTEO-DE-MAYDA-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/05_GC_FONDAZIONE-DVN_PH-MATTEO-DE-MAYDA-1229x1536.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Pierrot Fleuri<\/em> by ceramicist Kaori Kurihara, alongside Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua textiles, at Fondazione Dries Van Noten, Photo by Matteo de Mayda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns row g-0 is-layout-flex wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column col-md-6 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column col-md-6 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>That trajectory changed in 1999 when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labiennale.org\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Venice Biennale<\/a> permanently expanded beyond its historic Giardini pavilions into the Arsenale, the city\u2019s former shipbuilding complex. Soon after, exhibitors began staging shows in palazzi, churches, and other historic buildings, making Venice an integral part of the Biennale, rather than merely its location.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the momentum is everywhere. The film festival is challenging the dominance of Cannes as a preferred launchpad for film-awards seasons. The city\u2019s food scene has welcomed a wave of chef-driven restaurants,\u00a0such as Michelin-starred <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisteria-restaurant.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ristorante Wist\u00e8ria<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/alcovino.it\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Al Covino,<\/a> a bistro with just seven tables. Art foundations continue to open, including the<a href=\"https:\/\/anishkapoor.com\/9811\/palazzo-manfrin-venice\"> Anish Kapoor Foundation in Palazzo Manfrin<\/a> in Cannaregio and <a href=\"https:\/\/fondazionedriesvannoten.org\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fondazione Dries Van Noten<\/a>, a centre for craftsmanship and contemporary creative practice, founded by its namesake, the legendary Belgian fashion designer, in the 15th-century Palazzo Pisani Moretta on the Grand Canal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns row g-0 is-layout-flex wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column col-md-6 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<div style=\"width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 2 \/ 3; overflow: hidden;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-165685 size-full img-fluid\" style=\"display: block; width: 100%; height: 100%; max-width: none; object-fit: cover; object-position: center;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Palazzo-Grimani_06-Camerino-di-Callisto.jpg\" alt=\"The chamber of Callisto at Museo di Palazzo Grimani\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Palazzo-Grimani_06-Camerino-di-Callisto.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Palazzo-Grimani_06-Camerino-di-Callisto-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Palazzo-Grimani_06-Camerino-di-Callisto-744x1024.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Palazzo-Grimani_06-Camerino-di-Callisto-768x1057.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Palazzo-Grimani_06-Camerino-di-Callisto-1116x1536.jpg 1116w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Palazzo-Grimani_06-Camerino-di-Callisto-1487x2048.jpg 1487w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The chamber of Callisto at Museo di Palazzo Grimani. Photo by Matteo de Fina, Courtesy of Venetian Heritage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column col-md-6 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<div style=\"width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 2 \/ 3; overflow: hidden;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-165679 size-full img-fluid\" style=\"display: block; width: 100%; height: 100%; max-width: none; object-fit: cover; object-position: center;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1.-Ca-dOro.jpg\" alt=\"Ca d'Oro\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1.-Ca-dOro.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1.-Ca-dOro-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1.-Ca-dOro-750x1024.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1.-Ca-dOro-768x1049.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1.-Ca-dOro-1125x1536.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ca d&#8217;Oro on the Grand Canal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns row g-0 is-layout-flex wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column col-md-6 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column col-md-6 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Under Bergamo Rossi\u2019s leadership, Venetian Heritage has restored <a href=\"https:\/\/museogrimani.cultura.gov.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Palazzo Grimani<\/a>, where annual visitors have increased from roughly 9,000 in 2018 to 90,000 today, and is in the midst of overseeing the refurbishment of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cadoro.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ca\u2019 d\u2019Oro<\/a>, the Venetian Gothic palazzo on the Grand Canal that is the home to one of the city\u2019s finest collections of Renaissance art.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homofaber.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Homo Faber<\/a>\u2014the biennial celebration of contemporary craft created by the Geneva-based Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship and staged on San Giorgio Maggiore\u2014also ran this September. Among the\u00a0hundreds of artisanal gems on view is the work of <a href=\"https:\/\/lagunab.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laguna~B<\/a>, the Murano glassmaker run by Marcantonio\u00a0Brandolini,\u00a0a descendant of one of Venice\u2019s oldest families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, people come here for culture,\u201d Bergamo Rossi says. And not just to visit. Entrepreneurs, designers, artists, and philanthropists are moving to Venice, opening or reviving local businesses and helping return the city to year-round life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"margin: 32px 0; padding: 0;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-165684 size-full img-fluid\" style=\"display: block; width: 100%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DAN_263.jpg\" alt=\"Inside a carefully restored space at Danieli, Venezia, A Four Seasons Hotel\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DAN_263.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DAN_263-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DAN_263-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DAN_263-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DAN_263-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Inside a carefully restored space at the Danieli, Venezia, A Four Seasons Hotel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns row g-0 is-layout-flex wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column col-md-6 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column col-md-6 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Though the population has dropped to about 50,000, many of the newcomers, like fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, are deeply engaged in the life of the city. Von Furstenberg now spends more than half the year in Venice and hosts the annual DVF Awards for extraordinary women leaders in late summer.<\/p>\n<p>Five years ago, the American entrepreneur Stuart Parr purchased <a href=\"https:\/\/piedaterrevenezia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pied\u00e0terre<\/a>, the venerable maker of the city\u2019s signature cotton velvet <em>furlane<\/em> slippers. Parr moved production to Italy and began collaborating with historic Venetian textile houses, including Rubelli and Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua. Today he lives on the Grand Canal. \u201cPeople always ask me how long I\u2019m going to stay here,\u201d he says. \u201cI don\u2019t know a better option.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Venice still faces challenges. Tourism is a delicate balancing act. Preserving a city built on seawater will never be simple or inexpensive. Perhaps that has always been Venice\u2019s story\u2014not stasis, but adaptation. \u201cI don\u2019t believe in a renaissance,\u201d Brandolini says. \u201cVenice has always been in movement.\u201d And, as history suggests, it always will be.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once written off as a historic theme park, Venice&#8217;s cultural reinvention is crowned by the stunning restoration of the Danieli as a Four Seasons 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