The area of the Salute is a location that stimulates the contemplative side of every visitor. Perhaps this is why Ezra Pound and Allen Ginsberg chose to put down roots right here. Ezra lived for two years in the Hotel alla Salute; Allen found a house a little further away. The two poets were in the habit of meeting each other in the Hotel garden.

Even Peggy Guggenheim, that had set up her gallery of contemporary art in the nearby Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, loved to stay at this benchmark of Italian and foreign artists. Starting after the war and for all the Seventies, the Salute became a place of intense intellectual ferment. We remember painters like Guidi, Santomaso, Tallone, Carena, and Vedova. Even today one clearly detects a very special atmosphere, cultured and creative.