Il Fondaco dei Tedeschi - Timber structures

The Fondaco dei Tedeschi has been a part of the history of Venice for as many as eight centuries, first built in 1228 and then rebuilt after a devastating fire in 1508.

As its name suggests – its translation literally meaning “warehouse of the Germans” – since medieval times the building was used as a trading post by German merchants who stocked here their goods arriving from Nuremberg and Augsburg. The German community continued to use the building until the Napoleonic invasion of 1797.