Meat factory

The Medici family had a villa across the river from their offices (the Uffizi). They had to cross the river each morning on their way to work, making millions with their banking endeavors and hedge funds. On the bridges were shops, particularly meat markets, who customarily threw their "left overs" in the river. The Medici preferred something more civilized to the audacious smelly enterprise and threw out all meat markets on the bridges but one. Here is is, though it is not meat market any longer.