In the westernmost part of the sestiere, between the Cannaregio Canal (Rio) and the Agudi bridge (today Ponte di Ghetto Vecchio), there was a piece of land in the 14th century called Geto de rame, because there was a foundry with 14 furnaces there: the Geto Vechio. The small island in front of it, a muddy and slimy area where the foundry waste was dumped, was called the ‘terrain of the geto’ (clay). However, in the 15th century it housed a bombard foundry and took the name of Geto Novo.When the foundries became insufficient, the two plots of land were sold to noble families, such as the Minott
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