The area initially had sandbanks or swampy areas, so much so that the northern lagoon border was located about where the Scuola Grande di San Marco is located today.
In 1234, under the dogado of Jacopo Tiepolo, the land was granted to the Dominican friars, who took charge of the reclamation (the field was paved for the first time around 1682), which in the following centuries will come up to the current Fondamenta Nuove. As for the episode, legend has it that the Doge one night had dreamed of that area covered with flowers with a voice in the background telling him This is the pla
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