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 n a warm spring night in 1998,
Venice-based historian Dorit Raines roamed among the construction at The
Venetian resort, checking the authenticity of features for the $1.5
billion masterpiece hotel Chairman Sheldon Adelson was crafting on the Las
Vegas Strip.A stickler for details, she would make many trips from her home in Venice to the Strip to help oversee the work being done at Adelson's Venetian. No detail was left to chance in a bid to replicate Venice in Las Vegas. She approached the job with a missionary zeal, and Adelson was an attentive student, anxious to make sure his masterpiece was just that. When movie legend Sophia Loren christened the new resort in May 1999, she told Adelson she was "flabbergasted," adding "It is just miraculous what you have done." The 3,036-room resort -- the 9th largest in America -- features replicas of some of Venice's most famous landmarks, including the Rialto Bridge and Doge's Palace. The average rooms are 700 square feet, exceptionally large for a hotel room, and some of the world's leading retailers can be found along the Grand Canal Shoppes, where gondoliers wind their way along canals running through the property. |
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