This is the second year we've stayed here at Grazia's. This is literally a rooftop apartment high up on the top of some ancient building and directly overlooking a beautiful canal below that just happens to be the canal where all the gondoliers take all of the tourists. So you get to sit outside under your umbrella on the rooftop patio and listen all day long to the gondoliers playing their hand organs and belting out their baritone arias as they pass by below you while you eat your zuppa de pesce and sip your Valpolicella red wine! It's right out of a movie. The apartment itself is pretty much a local venetian apartment up several flights of stairs with the last being a spiral stairway to her rooftop penthouse. It's small and somewhat spartan, but it's not about what's inside the apartment- it's what is outside on the rooftop patio. You couldn't get her location for under a thousand dollars a night in any regular hotel! We've been coming to Venice for years to tour all the local restaurants, but since staying at Grazia's we find ourselves instead going to the coop and eating every dinner outside high on that rooftop patio enjoying the sunset while the bells ring in the clocktower in San Morcos square nearby, feeding the resident pigeons and listening to the passing gondolier's music below. No restaurant in Venice can offer you this!