The Hotel Metropole is located in the heart of Venice, overlooking the sea and San Marco basin, in an ideal position close to Piazza San Marco and all major attractions of the city. The hotel is elegantly furnished with original period furniture, precious velvets, exotic scents, old books, silver chandeliers. It offers a wide array of services including a bar, a beautiful lobby with 18th century curtains, a private canal entrance, banqueting facilities (inside or outside in the garden) and a fully equipped meeting room. The Met restaurant offers a large variety of Italian and local dishes with live music every evening, while in the aftertoon the lounge provides the ideal tea-time setting with a selection of over 30 different types of tea and home-made pastries. The hotel also features an in-house exhibition of antiquities with over 2000 pieces.