Derived categories of symmetric products and moduli spaces of vector bundles on a curve

We show that the derived categories of symmetric products of a curve are embedded into the derived categories of the moduli spaces of vector bundles of large ranks on the curve. It supports a prediction of the existence of a semiorthogonal decomposition of the derived category of the moduli space, expected by a motivic computation. As an application, we show that all Jacobian varieties, symmetric products of curves, and all principally polarized abelian varieties of dimension at most three, are Fano visitors. We also obtain similar results for motives.