Airelles Palladio, Venezia

What the classifiers highlight

The first Airelles outside France, on the island of Giudecca, straight across the water from St Mark's Square and three minutes by boat from its crowds. MICHELIN splits the rooms evenly between the Palladio, built by the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio himself, and the Villa Frollo. The smaller Villa Mason holds three bedrooms and goes to one party at a time.