Meekly following the great bend of the Grand Canal, between the Erberia (fruit and vegetable market) and the Pescheria (fish market), stretches the long façade of the Fabbriche Nuove di Rialto: the last piece in the reconstruction of the city’s commercial heart, designed by Jacopo Sansovino between 1552 and 1555 — beside Scarpagnino’s Fabbriche Vecchie, just thirty years older.