Fondaco
“With a magnificent entrance gate, with a house for the acting custodian, marbled bank and machine coarsely called brains, or winch, of help with goods unloading”. It is with these words that the historian Antonio Zambaldi of Portogruaro describes in his papers the magnificence of the “fondaco”of Commerce. A “fondaco”, erected in Portoguaro, which saw the light in 1447, and was then used as a public warehouse for both the preservation and custody of merchandise which transited daily to and from all regions north of Venice. In 1934 the arch of the “fondaco” was demolished to allow the construction of the present “Via Bon”, as well as the related bridge on the River Lemene. In 2014 the arch was brought back to its old glory and located in the area of Villa Martinelli.