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Canal walks (fondamenta)

Calle e Fondamenta del Banco Salviati

The sotoportego del Banco Salviati in San Polo: the passageway that preserves the name of the Florentine bank active here in the 16th century
The sotoportego del Banco Salviati in San Polo: the passageway that preserves the name of the Florentine bank active here in the 16th century Photo: Abxbay, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

A quay and a sotoportego (covered passageway) still bear the name of a Florentine bank that disappeared four centuries ago. Here, between the rio (a Venetian canal) di Sant’Aponal and the rio delle Beccarie — called Magadesso in the 13th century, after the Magadesia family, and rio di Cà Bellegno in the 14th — the Salviati, immensely wealthy Tuscan bankers, had their homes and offices.

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