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Our Republic is born, is married and dies with the sea: all ships - also those belonging to the other famous Sea Republics - moor at the Quay of St. Pentane, straight in the city's heart. Pisa (top) and Genoa (here, on the side) are today's guests. As in every proper quay, business flourishes: two old Vikings came till here with a rather old naval boiler - they claim it's new, but it must be at least a three-century old model - and try to sell it to the captain of the Genoans! Poor dreamers! The shipowner and his crew come from Chiavari, don't they know that these ones are not easily cheated? Instead, who's going to lose something is the young man (below) who runs behind a modern jig to foam refrigerators: it has arrived by river (it was lost from a barge in Milan's Naviglio last year, it floated along the Ticino, the Po, some lagoon, and here it is now) and - after a thorough cleaning - it could be ready for a delivery to the famous big refrigerator factory in the inner lands. Let's hope it does not fall in the water again! 
Good, enough now, discover the rest on your own, and enjoy your tour: you are in Venice, you should have fun, at the end!