Our history
The work was completed around 1360: from San Giuliano on the lagoon's edge, the canal extends almost to today's Centro Le Barche, where it still ended in the early 20th century. For centuries, the Canal Salso was the main waterway-
-connecting Venice, the mainland, and the Porto delle Barche, the mainland head, a bustling hub of traffic, the heart of the eponymous district, the most popular part of Mestre, a colorful and lively world of boatmen and gondoliers, porters and carters, artisans, innkeepers, and tavern keepers.
During the era of Mestre's first industrialization, between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, factories and commercial infrastructures sprang up on both banks. In 1907-8, approximately halfway along the waterway, an orthogonal dock was dug to serve the cotton warehouses. Today, this area is flanked by the new Viale Ancona, which overlooks a modern hotel and a dock for private boats.
The building on which the Hotel Guidi was built was constructed between 1930 and 1940, but it was only renovated and converted into a hotel in 1983. Since then, numerous renovations and modernizations have been carried out to make the facility efficient and functional, able to adequately meet the needs of its guests.
