Cipriani Venice Unveils a New Season with a Dreamy Dior Bar

Venice in spring is a particular gift. The light catches the facades and the water in almost designed ways. The city is fully itself, moving at its own pace, entirely indifferent to the seasons that rush past it. Hotel Cipriani Venice sits on the Giudecca at just the right remove from the center: close enough to feel everything, far enough to breathe.

For this 2026 Spring/Summer season, the Cip's Club at Hotel Cipriani, A Belmond Hotel, is set to open its doors this April 1, welcoming you for lunch and dinner daily, with a private water taxi shuttling continuously between the hotel and San Marco with no fixed schedule.

While the Il Bacaro Dior at Hotel Cipriani is set of officially open its doors this April 23, to transform the evenings into a ceremony of their own. This Dior-conceived bar space adorned with works of art, where Champagne and cicchetti meet the golden light of a Venetian sunset in what is quite simply the most atmospheric aperitivo hour in Italy. From lunch on the lagoon to the last of the night over the water, Giudecca 10 has everything your Venice day needs.

Roberto Gatto Brings 35 Years of Venetian Mastery to the Table

Roberto Gatto has spent four decades in conversation with the Rialto market, the Venetian lagoon and the guests who return to Cip's Club season after season precisely because this cusine. His 2026 seasonal menu is an expression of Italian cuisine at its most authentic: ingredients chosen with absolute conviction, techniques built on memory, and a lightness of touch that only true confidence in the kitchen produces.

The classics are here and they earn their place completely. Bigoli co l'anara, the ancient Venetian pasta with duck that belongs to this city the way the gondola does. Fegato alla Veneziana with Biancoperla polenta, a plate of such considered simplicity that it becomes an argument for a place. And the daily selection from the Rialto market, grilled or roasted according to the catch, which changes with the season and arrives with the freshness that reminds you exactly why you came to Italy.

From the terrace, Piazza San Marco sits across the water, the Campanile and the domes of the Basilica rising against the sky with that particular Venetian patience they have always had.

Dior Brings Its Art de Vivre to the Most Beautiful Sunset in Venice

Il Bacaro Dior at Hotel Cipriani is where the evening takes on an entirely different quality. Dior has conceived this bar space as a living expression of the Maison's art de vivre: a suggestive, dream-like interior adorned with artworks, where the boundaries between beauty, culture and pleasure dissolve without effort. The name honors the Venetian tradition of the bacaro. The neighborhood wine bar where the city gathers for an ombra and the pleasure of being exactly where you are. Dior takes that tradition and gives it the full weight of the Maison's sensibility.

Come for Champagne and cicchetti as the light turns. Come for the view of San Marco at dusk, which is among the most extraordinary things this city produces and which Il Bacaro Dior frames with an intentional precision. The warm tones of the lagoon, the golden facades, the water going still: Venice at the moment when everything it has promised all day finally arrives.

Opening April 23, Tuesday to Sunday from 6:30 PM, it carries you through to 11:30 PM and the deep blue of the Venetian night over the water.

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