Chiesa di San Giacomo Apostolo
San Giacomo Apostolo—known in local usage as San Giacomo di Rialto—touches Rialto Square, where the church’s front forms the eastern side. Tradition calls it Venice’s oldest church, supposedly consecrated in 421, and while documents refer to the area in 1097, the first that mention the church itself date from 1152. The site was also rebuilt in 1071, a change remembered through the way the Rialto market grew right in front of the building, with bankers and money changers operating in a street-level “bill of exchange” system between clients and credit from banker to banker. This church carried its own survival story into the 1500s: alongside the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi, it was one of the only buildings on the square to escape the devastating fire of 1514. …
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