The St. Regis Venice San Clemente Palace

San Clemente had been a monastery, a quarantine station for typhus and plague, and then a psychiatric hospital before it became a hotel at all. Its first international chapter ran under the St Regis name, on the same twelve-acre island in the Venetian lagoon, with the monastery buildings and the twelfth-century church as the property's core.

That arrangement ended and the island passed to Kempinski, and later to Mandarin Oriental. This register keeps all three as separate records rather than editing one entry three times: each hotel existed, was booked and was reviewed under a name that no longer applies, and a guest searching an old name is entitled to land somewhere rather than nowhere.

Three brands, one island, one plan. The buildings have outlived a monastery, two medical uses and three hotel companies without being cleared, which is why the island reads as a place rather than a site.

A closed record, not a closed island. Nothing here has been demolished. What ended was a name.

Sources

• Historic entry. Successor: San Clemente Palace Kempinski Venice (LHL-I-229).
• Operating dates and room count during the St Regis period unverified. Confirm before publication.

Booking

Private Island Resorts arranges each stay on request, quoting the rates available for the island and dates. No benefit should be assumed unless it is confirmed in writing for the individual reservation.