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Fondaco dei
Tedeschi, originally
used as a warehouse
and lodgings for
German traders, has
been refurbished
as a luxury
department store.
Palazzo Camerlenghi, built
in 1528, was once the offices
of the city treasurers
(camerlenghi). The ground
floor was the State prison.
Rialto

Riva del Ferro is
the quayside where
German trading The Rialto Bridge (see p104) was built to span
barges offloaded the Grand Canal in what was, and still is, the
iron (ferro). most commercial quarter of the city.

Palazzo Manin-Dolfin was
built by Sansovino in 1538–40,
but only his Classical stone
façade survives. The interior was
completely transformed for
Ludovico Manin, last doge of
Venice (died 1797). He intended
to turn the house into a
magnificent palace extending
as far as Campo San Salvatore.

The Dandolo Family
The illustrious Dandolo family
produced four doges, 12
procurators of San Marco, a
patriarch of Grado and a queen of Serbia.
The first of the doges was Enrico, who,
despite being old and blind, was the
Palazzo Bembo, a 15th-century principal driving force in the Crusaders’
Gothic palace, was the birthplace plan to take Constantinople in 1204
of the Renaissance cardinal (see p46). The other remarkable doge
and scholar Pietro Bembo, in the family was the humanist and
who wrote one of the earliest historian Andrea Dandolo (d.1354). Doge Enrico Dandolo
Italian grammars.

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