The history of Ausonia Hungaria palace is interwoven with that of Venice’s Lido island, as the favorite destination of many visitors, often well-known.

From the late 1800s and into the early 1900s, Lido island enjoyed unprecedented growth in tourism due mainly to the new fashion of ‘bathing at the seaside’.
The building became iconic and distinctive from 1913, when the ceramist Luigi Fabris created the particular decoration of the main façade in multi-colored majolica tiles, thus giving the island a unique Liberty-style building.

Motifs of ochre and water-green vegetables, fruit and flower garlands, puttos and female figures symbolizing Venice and Hungary, merge to create the charming combination of forms and colors we still admire, in a complex balance between innovation and experimentation.