Hotel Excelsior

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The facade of the Hotel Excelsior seen from Lungomare Marconi - (Archivio Venipedia / Bazzmann)

Has always been an icon of elite tourism on the Lido di Venezia hosted - on its terrace - the first Venice Film Festival.
A fairy-tale residence, with its Moorish-style domes and turrets, which immediately attracted illustrious personalities. Its beach also holds the record for the first transport of air mail, carried out by Achille Dal Mistro.

The Lido of Venice began to be a destination for seaside tourism starting from the second half of the nineteenth century, a time of important urbanization interventions that transformed the town inhabited by a few hundred people into a summer resort for the aristocracy, becoming an inspiring muse also for foreign authors from Johann Wolfgang Goethe to Lord Byron to Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Mann (in the twentieth century).

However, the greatest economic development took place in the first decade of the twentieth century with the construction, in 1900, of the first large lux

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