Wiktionary
n. A type of inn, especially as the residence of a merchant or trader; a trading post.
Usage examples of "fondaco".
Museo Civico, the old Fondaco dei Turchi, has been reconstructed and restored.
He recognized the building as the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, a sixteenth-century complex that had contained the lodgings, offices, and warehouses of the old German merchant colony.
The Fondaco itself was a post office now, drab, artless, without vibration.
The Fondaco dei Turchi should not have been in such a state of disrepair: it had been rebuilt in the last century and later turned into a museum.
Fabio visited the banks and fondacos without discovering any one willing to lend him money.
The vaporetto passed the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, an enormous palace of 160 rooms, now the central Post Office, which was originally used by the Tedeschi family as their warehouse and a kind of hotel for visiting members of other merchant families.