And now we touch very interesting history again, for the next great building, with the motor-boats before it, now the central Post Office, is the very Fondaco dei Tedeschi, the head-quarters of German merchants in Venice, on whose walls Giorgione and Titian painted the famous frescoes and in which Tintoretto held a sinecure post.

Giorgion's frescoes faced the Canal; Titian's the Rialto.
And so we reach the Rialto bridge, on this side of which are no shrines, but a lion is on the keystone, and on each side is a holy man.

After the Rialto bridge there is nothing of any moment for many yards, save a house with a high narrow archway which may be seen in Mr.Morley's picture, until we reach Sansovino's Palazzo Manin, now the Bank of Italy, a fine building and the home of the last Doge.

The three steamboat stations hereabouts are for passengers for the Riva and Lido, for Mestre, and for the railway station, respectively.

The palace next the Ponte Manin, over the Rio San Salvatore, is the Bembo, with very fine windows.