Great scenes have been witnessed in this building, for the Trons were a famous and powerful Venetian family, supplying more than one Doge, and here in 1775 was entertained the Emperor Joseph II.
Then the Rio Tron and then the Palazzo Battagia, with two rich coats of arms in relief, which is also by Longhena, but I hope that it was not he who placed the columns on the roof.

The tiny Calle del Megio, and we reach the venerable piece of decay which once was the granary of the Venetian Republic--one of the most dignified and attractive buildings on the canal, with its old brick and coping of pointed arches.

The Rio del Megio divides the granary from the old Fondaco dei Turchi, once, after a long and distinguished life as a palace, the head-quarters of the Turks in Venice, and now, admirably restored, the civic museum.
It is necessary to visit the collections preserved here, but I cannot promise any feelings of exultation among them.

The Museo Civico might be so interesting and is so depressing.

Baedeker is joyful over the "excellent illustrative guide (1909), 1 franc," but though it may have existed in 1909 there is no longer any trace of it, nor could I obtain the reason why.