The first documents in which the Church of San Giacomo is mentioned date back to 1152, but tradition has it that it was the first building built in the Rialto area - erected the same year as the foundation of Venice - in 421.
Sanudo himself writes of it:
Original: "[...] solum restò in piedi la chiesia di San Giacomo di Rialto coperta di piombo qual era in mezo dil fuogo, e ita Deo volente si preservò. La qual fu la prima chiexia edificata in Venetia dil 421 a dì 25 Marzo, come in le nostre croniche si leze [...]"
English: "[...]
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