Some 4, 000 people gathered on Sunday evening at the Venetian Hotel's Palazzo Ballroom in Las Vegas to hear Microsoft Chairman BillGatesBill Gates give his final speech to the high-tech world's mega-conference.
With 1.5m square metres of floor space, including two helipads, a giant shopping mall and a prayer area said to cater for 30, 000 worshippers, Abraj al-Bait is substantially bigger than America's two biggest buildings, the Pentagon and the Palazzo Hotel in Las Vegas, put together.
One shining exception is the Palazzo Mocenigo, a grand 16th-century home near San Marco belonging to Francesca Bortolotto Possati, owner of the Hotel Bauer and Il Palazzo, and newly available to rent.
FORBES: The timeless world of the Venetian aristocracy lives on.
His second act is Palazzo Victoria, a reborn hotel that consists of three 14th-century palazzos.
From the New World to the Old, on 6 October the St Regis Florence opened in a 15th-century palazzo (formerly the Grand Hotel Florence).
That changed with the June opening of Palazzo Victoria, the second hotel from the family that owns the lovely Il Salviatino in the hills just above Florence.
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The 58-room Bulgari Hotel Milan occupies a renovated 18th-century palazzo at the heart of the city.
The Decumani Hotel de Charme is fresh, elegant and in the former palazzo of Cardinal Sisto Riario Sforza, the last bishop of the Bourbon Kingdom of Naples.
Alternatively, take a short gondola or ferry ride from the boat stations in front of the Palazzo Ducale, next to Piazza San Marco, to the Hotel Cipriani on Isola Della Guidecca.
The city is filled with palazzo owners renting out dreary spaces no better than third-rate hotel rooms.
FORBES: The timeless world of the Venetian aristocracy lives on.
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