Hotel Casa Nicolò Priuli is dedicated to
Count Nicolò Priuli,
representative and Minister of Infant Education in the Repubblica
Veneta.
After centuries of political and social upheaval
in Venice, the scene was set for the arrival of Napoleon
in 1797, and his concession to the Austrians of the City
of Venice under the Treaty of Campo Formio.
In 1848, Venice
rose up and revolted against their unwanted guests and their
rule, and joined the long list of rebellions against the
established order across Europe, eventually declaring Venice
a Republic in March of 1848 (Repubblica
Veneta).
The movement for Italian unification soon gathered speed
throughout the Veneto region, and although this rebellion
succumbed in the summer of 1849, Venice was finally united
with the Kingdom of Italy in 1866, after the seven-week's
war.
After years of neglect and decline, the city was
a hive of activity and growth during the last decades of
the 19th century with a causeway to the mainland bringing
a railway station to Venice, zones pedestrianised on the
island, canals being widened, and an increase in port traffic.
A road traffic causeway and parking lot was added in the
20th century as tourism became a rising and key factor in
trade. Throughout Hotel Casa Nicolò, guests
can imagine and envision this important historical period
of political zeal, historical figures, patriotism, and no
few heroes, with exact reproductions of the paintings in
Venice's Correr Museum depicting the events of the city's
heroic fight for freedom in 1848.
