It is the major bridge in Venice, crossing the Grand Canal in the area of Rialto. Initially it was named Ponte della Moneta (Coin's Bridge) because it had been built near the Ancient Mint of Venice, and in the shops upon it there were concentrated the financial activities by Venetian Bankers
The current version, coming out from the sixt reconstruction done and that was the first stone bridge in the city, belongs to the 1590 ant was performed by the architect Antonio Da Ponte.
Its elegant shape is divided into 12 round double arches symmetrically placed, which nowadays host retail shops of tourist souvenirs.

The Venetians call it the Church of S. Giacometo because of its small size. It is considered the oldest church in Venice, and was first built by the vow of a carpenter in the time of the first arrivals on the island, in the 5th century. The present building dates from the 11th and 12th centuries and is probably connected with the origins of the Rialto Market (1097), built as it is in the heart of the market for the use of the merchants. An inscription on a 12th –century cross on the outside apse is still visible which in the name of the Lord invokes honesty in merchants, the accuracy of weights and the legality of contracts. In 1513 the church was saved from a serious fire which destroyed the greater part of the market; it was restored the same year. It managed to retain its original form even after the radical restoration carried out in 1601 by the order of the doge Marino Grimaldi together with the parish priest Gerolamo Dall’Acqua, during which the floors were raised to impede the continuous flooding.

Originally built in the mid-13th century, Santa Maria dei Frari (St. Mary of the Friars) houses many masterpieces of Venetian Renaissance art, notably Giovanni Bellini's triptych "Madonna and Child with Saints," and the "Pesaro Madonna" by Titian, who is buried in the church.

The Scuola Grande of San Rocco represents an important stage of Venetian art history of XVI century: in order to decorate the major Hall of the Albergo they announced a competition which joined to the most renowned painters active in Venice in those times: Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, Federico Zuccari, Giuseppe Salviati, Andrea Schiavone.
The contest was won by Tintoretto who, by a clever advertising operation, gave as gift to the School one of the most important canvas to be committed, which was much appreciated for its high artistic value and which convinced the jury (since it was not possible for the school to reject a gift) to not change the style for the rest of the series.
By the name of Schools (Scuole) were not called in Venice the learning institutions but some secular associations of charity and mutual aid belonging to the professional associations. They were almost 400 during the period of higher splendour of Serenissima Republic of Venice. Each confraternity was located inside a palace richly built and decorated and dedicated to its patron saint, who had to be the subject of all artworks commited to the most important artist of the time.
Behind the palace of the School of St.Rocco there is the Church of St.Pantalon, with unfinished facade, which contains works by Veronese, Palma il Giovane, Antonio Vivarini and the most important work by Fumiani, a ceiling decorated with more than 60 canvases. Going on beyond the small bridge of San Tomà, we arrive to the house by Carlo Goldoni, the highest literary glory of Venice and numen of Italian theatre, which nowadays hosts the International Institute for Theatral Research
Then the small church of San Polo, initially built in the IX cenntury and rebuilt in XV century, which is a precious treasure containing works by Tintoretto, Veronese and Tiepolo.

San Giovanni Evangelista Church and the adjoining Scuola should have been thought as a unique complex, in fact they had same restorations since eighteenth century.
S. Carlo Chapel once kept a cross' relic that after was moved into the S. Giovannni Evangelista's Scuola Grande.
This church offers to the turist an important overall view about seventeenth century painting through the paintings San Giovanni evangelista mentre scrive il Vangelo, and Santi Giacomo e Mattia by Pietro Liberi and Crocefissione by Domenico Tintoretto dating back at 1626.
Two works by Marieschi mark the passage to the eighteenth century: L'ultima cena (Last Dinner) and L'esaltazione della Croce that is on the ceiling.

San Rocco church was begun in 1489 on a Bon's project and consectraded in 1508. This church suffered a big restoration in eighteenth century by Scalfarotto that almost canceled the entire original building.
Facade was built from 1765 to 1771 on Fossati's project and appears nowadays in keeping with the Renaissance architecture of the adjoining Scuola Grande. Almost all the estatues on the facade are by sculptor G. Marchiori.
Interior, with one nave with flat ceiling, reveals its Renaissance origin, in spite of Scalfarotto's interventions.
As for the Scuola Grande Jacopo Tintoretto worked here painting the organ's doors representing 'Annunciazione' and 'San Rocco presentato al papa'.