The Doge's apartment only occupies one of the Palace's three floors and to get to it you climb the beautiful Golden Staircase, begun halfway through the 16th century by Sansovino. The stairway owes its name to the spectacular golden stucco decorated vault and was formerly only used by Magistrates and important people.

Today this apartment has no furnishings, as they were partly stolen by Napoleon's army, but is still a kind of precious casket with masterpieces painted on its ceilings and magnificent stone fireplaces. It gives us an idea of the Doge's lifestyle and of the atmosphere that reigned in these rooms for centuries.

1. The Hotel Ca’ d’Oro and Venice are still open! Now we can arrange lunch and dinner directly in Hotel or in your room!!! Our friends of Osteria Contemporanea da Riccardo is a wonderful solution to taste typical cuisine with a modern style.
2. In the first episode of 'Travels with a Curator,' Xavier F. Salomon, Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, transports us to Venice. He introduces us to the Ca' d'Or.

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On the second noble floor you find the meeting rooms used by the highest state authorities.

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Take some time for yourself. Let yourself be enveloped by the refined elegance and sobriety of this ancient noble residence from the seventeenth century and the sophisticated rooms at the Hotel Ca d’Oro. From your room you can enjoy a view of one of the many canals of Venice, where gondolas glide lightly and quietly along. Other articles where Pala d’Oro is discussed: enamelwork: Byzantine: is the altar screen “Pala d’Oro” in St. Mark’s, Venice, believed to have been brought from Constantinople to Venice about 1105. The quality of Byzantine enamelling began to decline in the late 12th century.