Foresteria Valdese, Venice

Check in: 14:00 (2:00pm) - 19:00 (7:00pm) (arrivals may be allowed outside this window if your travel plans can't be adjusted however this is subject to availability)

Check out: 08:00 (8:00am) - 10:00 (10:00am)

History

Foresteria Valdese offers holidays with values of solidarity and responsible tourism, for example it's now contributing with the revenue to the 1€ project to support activities for children - unaccompanied minors; guests may also contribute directly. Foresteria Valdese works with Il Cerchio di Venezia, a social cooperative that supply bed linens and towels.

Waldensians arrived in Venice after the Veneto region was annexed to Italy.
In October 1866, Pastor Giovanni Davide Turin contacted the young Waldensians enrolled in the 19th Infantry Regiment and launched the first bible and preaching meetings at his home on Campo S. Zulian.
At Christmas 1867, the Waldensian community of Venice was constituted with the name of the Italian Evangelical Church. During the Christmas service on 25 December 1868, the church in Palazzo Cavagnis was inaugurated.

There were frequent and intense occasions for collaboration with the Lutheran Church, but over time it was with the Methodist Church that activities, programmes and pastoral care were shared. In 1977, the two communities – Waldensian and Methodist – stipulated a convention that allowed each believer to maintain their own specific denomination while being members of a single local community.

Shortly thereafter, the Methodist church at San Marco (Sottoportego del Cavalletto) would be sold. The Venetian convention was, in a certain sense, the precursor of the the Pact of Integration signed at the national level by the Waldensian and Methodist churches of Italy. Together, these two denominations constituted the WALDENSIAN CHURCH, UNION OF THE METHODIST AND WALDENSIAN CHURCHES, since 1979.

Food & beverage

Breakfast is served in the morning from 8.00 to 9.15.
The automatic vending machines for coffee, tea, chocolate and herbal teas are always available to welcome guests.
Those who wish can have lunch and dinner, with their own picnic, in the lounge: a refrigerator and a microwave oven will be available.

Other facilities

The property offers a library entirely for children and a selection of books for guests who are in "Book crossing".
You can take them and you can leave others for the guests who come after you. Children will find some games and a couple of tables and chairs to draw.

The TV is already present in many rooms and for everyone there is a TV in the lounge on the 2nd floor to watch in company.
On Wednesdays and Saturdays at 6 pm in the Busetto Hall on the 1st Floor you can listen to the Concerts organized by the Cultural Center. This hall is available to guests, upon reservation, to organize moments of meeting and reflection.
For some events there is a reimbursement of expenses.

The Foresteria is open all year round and the reception is open to welcome guests and check-in every day from 08:30 to 13:30 and from 14:00 to 20:00.
The rooms are available from 13:30 on the day of arrival and until 10:00 on the day of departure.
Guests can leave their bags in the luggage room. Wi-Fi is available throughout the hotel.