Sara Maestrelli, one of the creative forces behind the Violino d’Oro hotel has a long love story with Venice. Her family’s Collezione Em is a small but growing Italian hotel brand that also includes which also includes the Grand Hotel Minerva in Florence’s Piazza di Santa Maria Novella, the Brunelleschi Hotel right behind the Duomo in Florence, and Villa Roma Imperiale in Forte dei Marmi. But besides their home base Florence, it is Venice to which the family feels deeply connected; a city Sara ...