Then the Calle Bembo, and then various offices on the fondamenta, under chiefly red facades.

At the next calle is a traghetto and then the Palazzo Loredan, a Byzantine building of the eleventh or twelfth century, since restored.

It has lovely arches.

This and the next palace, the Farsetti, now form the Town Hall of Venice: hence the splendid blue posts and golden lions.

In the vestibule are posted up the notices of engagements, with full particulars of the contracting parties--the celibi and the nubili.