The first Fontego dei Tedeschi was probably built by the Republic between 1222 and 1225 in the area of San Bartolomeo overlooking the Grand Canal.
The location appears strongly connoted by the port nature of the site, as a maritime terminal of the great highways of Alemagna.
Little is known about this first building, it was certainly in Byzantine style, with two floors, and had a kitchen and a salting room for fish. On two sides at least it had ample scope: the one on the Grand Canal and the other on the Rio di San Giovanni Crisostomo, for the rest it was suffocat
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