Hotel Metropole - Venice

The Hotel Metropole is located on Riva Degli Schiavoni in Venice, Italy.  There has been a structure on this site since at least 1500, and at one time incorporated both a chapel and a church.  It is said that Antonio Vivaldi worked at the chapel giving music lessons.  By 1880 the building had been reconstructed as a hotel known as the Casa Kirsch.  In 1895 Sigmund Freud visited the hotel during a brief tour of Italy.  Marcel Proust stayed at the hotel in the spring of 1900 as he toured through Venice in the footsteps of John Ruskin.  During WWII the hotel served as a hospital.  Today it still remains a hotel.  

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