# Bridges The city of Bridges is located in the grass marshes of the Cypress Basin on the eastern banks of the Yoshino-gawa[^yoshino-gawa], near to the outskirts of the outlet of the mouth of the delta. Bridges enjoys long hot humid summers with intermittent thunderstorms and the occasional typhoon, and mild winters with short cold spells and possible freezing rains. The city is situated across a group of several dozen islands, both natural and artificial, in the Laguna Venezia (an enclosed bay that lies between the Iris and Sile Rivers—tributaries of the Yoshino-gawa that outlet into the delta and Subarashi Bei[^subarashi-bei]—with a maximum depth of twenty one meters and an area of mudflats, tidal shallows, islets, and salt marshes of just over five hundred square kilometers). The city islands connect with rivers, canals, and scores of bridges. The city is constructed on stilts and shocks and is engineered for flood, earthquake, and storm endurance. The city has a very truncated underground of only one level for utilidors (for public utilities and city infrastructure) and escape routes, flood mitigation and management, and storage. The lagoon is regularly visited by orca, dolphins, sharks, whales, and seals via Subarashi Bei and the Samenoumi[^samenoumi]. The nearby private nature reserve (owned by the Saganami Dai Ichizoku), Hashi Hogo Koen[^hashi-hogo-koen], to the east of the city harbors lush greenery, hidden trails, and wildlife habitats. The reserve includes wild boar, macaque, nightjars, alligators, ribbon snakes, cormorants, egrets, herons, hawks, terns, manatee, midoriiro no suija[^midoriiro-no-suija], cattails, sedge, buttonbush, rushes, willows, cypress trees, swamp rose, ferns, otters, harinezumi[^harinezumi], pantera, flamenco, aiiro no hebi[^aiiro-no-hebi], sea bass, sea bream, cuttlefish, squid, clams, crab, shrimp, gulls, ducks, bats, deer, crested porcupine, spoonbills, carp, frogs, vipers, eels, rattlesnakes, turtles, and more. In July many make a pilgrimage to the north lagoon, in un-powered boats, to see the beauteous Grand Mat of water hyacinth and lotus flowers in full bloom and enjoy picnics and photography before the flowers are harvested (mostly for gourmet food, compost and fertilizer) so they do not clog the waters. ## Bridges, Walkability, and Major Spans The numerous bridges of the city connect the islands and cross the rivers and canals. Many of the buildings have skyways connecting them—even across the canals—making the city very pedestrian friendly. You may walk the entire length and breadth of the city over its ponte[^ponte], calle[^calle], riva[^riva], skyways[^skyways], promenades[^promenades], and engawa[^engawa]. Several bridges in and around the city are famous for their architecture and engineering. The most renown is Kizuna Ponte[^kizuna-ponte], a double deck suspension bridge aiding Bridges' connection to the Akai Yoake Military Academy campuses and villages with a nineteen kilometer roadway/railway expansion across the Yoshino-gawa. The bridge was designed by Rem Koolhaas of Scarpa Architecture, a local firm. Another well regarded bridge is the newer Ponte Laviolette, an elegant arch bridge (2707 meters) for rail and roadway linking MacDiarmid koichizoku property on the mainland[^near-la-serenissima-aerofield] to their lands across the Iris River, a project of Sorenson Builders[^sorenson-builders]. ## Charter and Commerce Bridges (est. 2800) was chartered by the Saganami Dai Ichizoku as a waterway transport hub, and a commerce and light industry center. It is the last major river port on the east side of the continent before the Spaceport to the north, and it is an important center of commerce. The city was imagined as a centralized mercantile hub for the continent of Tairiku, but the port eventually proved to be too small and could not keep up with the demands on its resources—dozens of ships "cooling their heels" waiting in Subarashi Bei—and Hilo overtook it. The city is chock full of markets, bazaars, emporia, arcades, exchanges, marts, outlets, plazas and piazzas full of shops and traders. ## Transport and Hashi Port Bridges public transport, private transport, city and emergency services, deliveries, and cargo transport is all provided by watercraft (e.g. ferries, traghetti[^traghetti], vaporetto[^vaporetto], motoscafi[^motoscafi], locally made boats[^locally-made-boats], pontoons, sailboats, yachts, dinghies, frigatoon, fisher-boats, pursuit/emergency craft, recycle/compost craft, freighters, barges etc.) and suspended monorail lines, as there are no roadways: only elevated and suspended rail lines, canals, and waterways. The Hashi Port[^hashi-port] is a major hub for barges, freight ships, and cruise lines and is one of the busier water ports on the planet with an extensive collective of marinas and public docks. It covers over two thousand hectares with over thirty kilometers of quays accessible to ships with a draft up to twelve meters. Freight ships with too large a draft for the canals may anchor in the lagoon and are serviced by barges with mobile cranes. There are 163 berths organized through 27 terminals including commercial, fishing, industrial, passenger, and leisure. There is a dense network of service infrastructure including bridges to mainland railway and roadway connections, interior port railways, cranes, canals, and optical fibers. The Fusina[^fusina] ferry terminal covers thirty six hectares and has four berths. It is estimated that approximately twelve hundred companies are directly employed in Hashi Port and when combined with the more than three hundred companies not directly in Hashi Port there are around twenty three thousand employees that generate more than sixty billion ryu for the economy. ## Gondoliers There are about two thousand licensed gondoliers in Bridges. Most operate in black gondola as messengers and carriers of small fast cargos, but there are many in the Gondolieri Guild that serve the tourists, weddings, funerals, and date night romantics with decorated boats, colorful costumes, and song. In the fall they parade the canals in chorus to celebrate the guild members elevations as they "walk the tables" to their new ranks from apprentice to journeyer to master. ## Rail Stations Both the city railway station Ponte Eki[^ponte-eki] and the continental railway station Stantsiya Mostov[^stantsiya-mostov] are built on their own artificial shared island, with suspended monorails, elevated rail lines and bridges all connecting in a central railyard. The stations serve express and local shinkansen for freight and passengers, the city's intercity and commuter lines, and the local area tourist railways. ## La Serenissima Aerofield La Serenissima[^la-serenissima] aerofield accepts both regional and intercontinental air traffic from cargo and passenger airlines and from intercontinental and stellar small craft traffic. It is built on the mainland just about eight kilometers east of the city but is connected to the city by canals and bridges, a suspended monorail, and an elevated shinkansen railway. The aeroport connects millions of travelers a year to Bridges iconic canals and byzantine influenced architecture. The single terminal is a modern contemporary design that features a grid shell roof that allows sunlight to filter down into the halls. The terminal is not only stunning; its high tech award winning design is equipped with state of the art equipment and security systems for the terminal and the major commercial passenger airlines, freight carriers, charter services, and regional/seasonal carriers. The arrivals/departures area has seventy check-in desks for more than three dozen airlines serving as many as eight million passengers yearly. The terminal has two airside lounges (the Tintoretto and the Marco Polo) and duty free shops, restaurants, complimentary digital wifi, cruise agents and escorts, tourist information booths, atms, a post office, konbini, ground transport connections, and hotel counters. Aria, a private charter service (of the Rohrs koichizoku), has one of the bigger presences in the aeroport and offers independent ground handling and ancillary services, plus a variety of flight services including VIP passenger services, air taxis, freight, forestry, flight school training, firefighting, medical aid, photography and cinematography, science and agricultural surveys, and search and rescue services. ## Governance and Civil Services ### Executive and Advisory Bridges is governed by a City Manager (Inacio Keith Montgomery, Meritous), appointed by the Saganami Dai Ichizoku Chorohyogikai[^chorohyogikai], over a body of elected commissioners, alders, and officials. The Bridges Advisory Council is appointed by the Chorohyogikai[^chorohyogikai] of the Saganami Dai Ichizoku and the hierarchy of the Hohki and MacDiarmid Koichizoku. The Advisory Council offers expert guidance to the governing commissioners, alders, and officials of the city; it is also engaged as an accreditation body of the civil service for aspiring bureaucratic administrators, clerks, supervisors, inspectors, and managers of city services, and it oversees some of the city trusts and its endowment fund established with its charter by the Saganami Dai Ichizoku. ### Guilds and Professions Bridges Guild Syndic serves as a governing and regulating body of the city's trades, crafts, and professions and is led by Master Melinoe Kichida. ### Courts and District Administration The Bridges Magistrate Court is presided over by the Honorable Judge Astria Hale, Meritous of the Hinokibonchi Chihosaibansho[^hinokibonchi-chihosaibansho]. The Hinokibonchi Chihosaibansho is presided over by the Honorable Judge Emmeraude Dumas, JD, Meritous from the Chiku Saibansho[^chiku-saibansho] on Bridges Canale Tribune. The Hinokibonchi Chiku[^hinokibonchi-chiku] is presided over by Diana Paradiso, Meritous MP, with its Chiku jimusho[^chiku-jimusho] in Bridges on the Canale Grande. ### Law Enforcement and Sea Patrol City law enforcement and community police matters are contracted to the Nejiro Peace Officers, and Superintendent Alistair Fukuro leads the local elements of the Cypress Basin, which include: - several sizable complements of Constables (which also serve the metro area, the transit networks, the local bayou communities, and the local agricultural communities) - a resident unit of CIB agents - a major crimes unit with a forensics attachment - a K9 unit - mobile units - waterways patrol and pursuit units - strategic response units - quick response forces Also under the supervision of Superintendent Fukuro is the NPO Sea Patrol Tower at Hashi Port (with marine services and patrol units, mobile units, waterways patrol and pursuit units, and quick response forces), led by Inspector Shirou Rin. ### Fire, Rescue, and Emergency Services Fire and rescue and other emergency services are provided by the Nejiro Fire Brigade, and the Battalion Fire Chief of Bridges Lynda Bane leads the city firehouses and ambulance corps, heavy rescue and towing units, and wildland firefighting units. Most of the equipment is either amphibious vehicles or watercraft, but there are also fire motorcycles, hazardous material and environmental exosuits, firefighting industrial-mechs, robots and drones, VTOLs, and helicopters. ## Population and Visiting Seasons The city of Bridges has a resident population approaching two hundred thousand that may swell by up to an additional thirty percent in transient and seasonal workers, and more than triple during festivals and tourist season. Most tourists visit in the spring (March - June) or during the fall (September - November), with the month of June encompassing the high season before the summer heat becomes stifling, and numerous students come with their schools' field trips. With days getting longer and weather warmer, visitors are out and about on the bridges and canals of the city during the spring months—the best choice to visit if you want to do plenty of exploring without the sun beating down on your head and don't mind getting caught in the occasional rain shower. ## Food Culture: Cicchetti and Bacari Cicchetti are small, tasty bites served in cosy little bars called bacari. They include bite-sized bits of seafood, cured meats, creamy spreads on crusty bread, and the kind of perfectly fried things you can never have just one of, paired with ombra[^ombra] or spritz al select. Don't worry about memorising menus: just step up to the bar, take a look behind the glass counters, and point as people crowd around the bars, drink in hand, chatting and grazing shoulder to shoulder. Cicchetti is quick, affordable, and everywhere in the city, with each bacari telling a tale of the city's past, its trading history, its love of simplicity, and the way locals just get how to enjoy life without making a fuss. The city buzzes with merchants, dockworkers, and sailors, and full sit-down meals aren't always an option for those on the move working long hours; instead, people grab simple, filling food that is easy to eat while standing up, in no-frills tucked-away places with down-to-earth energy where locals stop in for a breather, a drink, and a chat. Whether you pop in for a quick bite or turn it into a proper cicchetti crawl, you get a real slice of Bridges—the everyday working-class kind that tourists often miss. It's not just food; it's how the city moves. ## Festivals and Regattas ### Holiday Bells The Carol of the Bells rings throughout the city on Christmas Eve (accompanied by several choirs), and again on New Year's Eve (followed at the midnight hour by the tower bells striking the end of the final hour of the year, immediately followed by the Cambridge Quarters ringing out over the city via the numerous tower bells); these are not-to-be-missed auditory experiences. ### Regatta Storica Thousands of visitors come for the Regatta Storica, held in September, the pinnacle event in the annual 'Voga alla Bridges' rowing calendar (the season includes races for galleys, barges, peatoni, pupparin, and lighter boats rowed by two or more crew) that has been practiced for decades and is well known for the spectacular historical water procession of bissone that precedes the gondolini[^gondolini] race for the pennants (red for the winner, light blue for second, green for third, yellow for fourth), the prize every Bridges rower dreams of and may be flown day and night off their club's main masthead or off a short staff at the bow of the winning boat. ### Ostara and Kamen no Kaanibaru For the two weeks leading into and including the vernal equinox, the city celebrates Ostara in March or early April depending on the orbits of the moons (Selene and Hinatea), the return of spring, with the festival of Kamen no Kaanibaru[^kamen-no-kaanibaru]. Masques and contests for the most beautifully decorated and painted eggs, masks, costumes, floats, flower-pieces and bouquets all take place. There is a surfeit of food and alcohol attendant to parades, treasure hunts, public water fights, lavish balls, feasts, block parties, elaborate costumes, dancing, and music; all are included in the two week celebration that attracts visitors and tourists from far and wide and swells the city population to over three million. #### Food, Horticulture, and Agriculture - The horticulture and agriculture in and around Bridges is mostly organic sustainable traditional farms and fishing, and carefully managed small scale organic heritage agriculture farms that produce commercial wholesale items. - The city's campo hold many community gardens and pastures. - A few of its fields and rooftops hold urban farms, vertical farms, and greenhouses, contributing to green spacing and food security. - All-natural homesteads and organic commercial farms are mostly on the mainland, but also on the islands of Carciofo and Terrazzatta in the southern lagoon. - These produce: hemp, rice, olives, cannabis, durum, flax, oats, barley, ancient and native Nejiroan grains, table fruits and vegetables, sugar beets, maize, tea, soybeans, wine grapes, dairy products, premium cattle, rabbits, pigs, goats, sheep, and poultry. - The majority of the fruits of their labors head to local farmstands, farmers markets, food halls, restaurants, and grocers. - The small desirable surplus is traded around the planet and stellar system, or as a very lucrative interstellar export due to the small coveted supply. - The city island of Creare holds allotments for city residents to cultivate gardens and/or fresh fruits and vegetables for their own use. - There are also tonnes of agricultural products moving through the city's commerce and logistics systems headed across the continent, the globe, and the stellar system. ## Points of Interest - The Arsenal a cluster of military shipyards and armouries surrounded by three kilometer ramparts, it is the home of several maritime PMCs, merchant marine groups, continegents of the local ichizoku naval militias, and it is the site of classified military ship and weapons development of the Nejiro Defense Troop Navy and the Nejiro Peace Officer Sea Patrol; - the Colosso Amphitheatre seats up to sixty thousand and is used for public spectacles, mock battles, simulated sea battles, equine races and sport, robot rallies and demolisher derbies, mixed martial arts, duels, athletic contests, magic shows, acrobatic shows, dramas, chinese opera, cirques, and cultural events; - the Canale Grande is the main artery of the city forming the largest channel thru the 'center' of the city making a large reverse-S shape and holding its primary commercial district (it is more than four kilometers long and up to ninety meters wide with an average depth of ten meters); - the Piazza Publica holds the civic center of the city with a large public square (fronted by Flower Park) where crowds may gather and is home to the Municipio[^city-hall], the chiku jimusho[^district-offices], the city's Guildhall, the city's NPO Tower, and the city's emergency call center headquarters; - Rio Squero[^rio-squero] canal keeps dry-docks and storage for the small boats (for transport, delivery, fishing and hunting, mobile markets, food stands, bars etc.) of the canals and lagoon, where all the famous rowboats (gondala, pupparini, sandoli) plus other small treasures of rowing and sailing navigation of the city are constructed, repaired and sheltered and have their Clubhouses (a few workshops are open to visits by the public and offer tours); - Kami Kowarawa Jinya[^kami-kowarawa-jinya] a popular sumiyoshi-zukuri style Shinto shrine fronted by an akai mokusei jinja-bashi[^jinja-bashi] on the Canale Pesca that venerates the local kappa nature spirits and the water; - The Bridges Technical and Vocational Institute is a public secondary and tertiary education center teaching business and finance, nursing and trauma medicine, civil law, hospitality and tourism, construction, architecture, engineering, advanced manufacturing, history and culture, journalism, design and visual arts, calligraphy, fashion, information technology, horticulture and agriculture, skilled trades and crafts, natural sciences, mechatronics, and applied science and maths owned and operated by the Hohki Koichizoku; - Il Punto[^il-punto] is an independent private well favored arts school for performance arts, culinary arts, music, literature and language, history, politics and communication, visual and graphic arts, design, fashion, digital arts and media; - Genesis is an independent public vocational trade school that provides a wide range of practical knowledge and skills and/or hands-on deeply specialized training for careers in hospitality, health, business, and technical or traditional crafts and trades that may be applied immediately in the workforce; - the Meritous Institute of Humanistic Discipline an independent public school concerned with education fostering combined studies and broad knowledge of the arts, ancient classical studies, cultural studies, martial arts, history, literature, philosophy, ethics, mathematics, economics, natural sciences, social sciences, library science and scholarship; - Ares Tactical Center is an independent public school that trains infantry (foot, jump, anti-mech, military police, security, motorized) in military history and culture, tactics, strategy, leadership, unity and teamwork, military weapons proficiency, formations, sword work, close quarters combat, armoured cavalry (from atvs to tanks, from amphibious vehicles to patrol boats, from exoskelotons to vtols) piloting, support roles, special warfare, military and combat engineering, and technical skills (weapons, air and ground vehicles, communications etc.); - the Maritime Archeological and Historical Society research institute and educational museum; - the Tides Fish Market (owned and operated by the Hohki Koichizoku) is on the Canale Pesca[^canale-pesca] and has been serving the best restaurants in Bridges for generations and boasts stall after stall of fishers unloading their freshly caught local catches from the Laguna Venezia, the Iris and Sile Rivers, in Subarashi Bei[^subarashi-bei] and from the Samenoumi[^samenoumi]; - the Grande Mercato[^grande-mercato] along the Rio Ichiba is a series of connected and refurbished warehouses with almost twenty acres of vendors with a myriad of food stalls and kiosks selling absolutely everything new and secondhand from apples and antiques to honey and handicrafts to military uniforms and makhaira to weapons systems and wasabi to zucchini and zombie cocktails, if you know where to look or who to talk to you may find it in the great market; - Brunjo Risorsu[^brunjo-risorsu] owned and operated by the Brunna and Brunaz families (a working class backbone for generations) collects and collates information, knowledge, intelligence and sells, rents, leases specialty equipment, also brokers and facilitates private contractors and security related personnel, located discreetly in the Palazzo del Bovolo[^palazzo-del-bovolo] named for its exterior spiral staircases; - The Bridges Courier Express on Rio Notizie[^rio-notizie] is a privately owned (Hohki Koichizoku) moderate regional newspaper covering Bridges and Yousai, the Spaceport and the Enclave, the Cypress Basin and the Kuroi Oka province, its building 'the rock of truth' designed by Zara Hadid of Cool Architects (Leyte) is a modern irregularly shaped blue and gray edifice of sharp points, rounded curves, and reflective surfaces admired by visitors and architects; - Rogues Ale (owned and operated by the MacDiarmid Koichizoku) is a craft and microbrewery of ale, beer, cider, spirits, and sodas with several breweries, brewpubs and taprooms in the city; - Steelhead (owned and operated MacDiarmid Koichizoku) is a popular casual restaurant serving freshwater fish featuring trout and bass; - Queen Coho is a fashionable two star white cloth fine dining establishment that specializes in fish and seafood with vaulted ceilings and three walls of glass which frame views of the canal and the south lagoon - pro-tip make reservations during peak sunset hours to catch the blazing oranges and yellows setting over the Canale Grande (owned and operated MacDiarmid Koichizoku); - Campo Margherita is a very lively place with the outside tables of adjacent bars and cafes, market stalls selling fresh fish, fruits and vegetables, and children learning to ride bikes and playing footie against the buildings, and the community managed Sunnyside pick your own vegetable patch; - Ca 'Nottambuli[^ca-nottambuli][^ca-nottambuli-details] an independent privately owned night open bookstore (a part of the vibrant aperitivo nightlife) housed in the Palazzo Dellarosa in Campo Oleandro facing the Canale Grande with four floors of fiction, literature, and scholarship for book lovers to indulge their passion at their leisure in comfort, it hosts book clubs, lectures, launch parties, book talks, interviews, author readings, storytellers, discussions and debates, live music, classes, table-talk rpgs and board games, meetup groups, digital downloads and subscriptions and other events, it has a wine and tapas bar and a bakery cafe and its cortile houses a resplendent garden of myriad varieties of pink roses and lifelike statues of the nine muses; - Eunha[^eunha] located on Rio Fabbrica[^rio-fabbrica] manufactures specially designed tablets, smartphones, laptops and other mobile electronic appliances (video games, audio equipment, detectors etc.) with ingress protection from the tiniest dust particles and that are water resistant and submergible in up to a meter of water for as long as an hour, they are slightly larger and heavier than other similar performance products on the market due to the heavy duty materials and insulation (they offer tours, have a visitor center, and a warehouse outlet); - Campo Fiori is centered by a splendid fountain with lifelike marble personifications of the ocean, health, abundance and flowers,the fountain is surrounded by ornamental gardens and outdoor cafes, teashops, and izakaya; - Piazza Ava[^piazza-ava] is a commercial square that contains bars and restaurants, boutiques and shops, fountains and sculptures, as well as temples and shrines, its popular with both tourists and locals thanks to its incredible ambiance and impressive architecture; - Campo Hinoki has live stands of cypress and kuromatsu popular with the locals for its restful atmosphere; - Alethia on the rooftop of the Hotel Palazzo Priuli is a terrace bar serving cocktails and aperitivo overlooking the Canale Grande; - there are several Campo Orto[^campo-orto] open to the public throughout the city that house small pastures and/or community gardens, parks, and leisure spaces; - Rainbow Tears is a nacre covered building on Rio Farfalla that houses the offices, workshops, and storefront of the pearl business of the MacDiarmid Koichizoku that designs and creates high end jewelry collections and also has a mussel and shellfish stand at Tides Fish Market; - Sojitz[^sojitz] is a sogoshosha[^sogoshosha] and interstellar import/export trading company (owned and operated by the Yakovich Koichizoku of the Four Corners Zaibatsu) with its Bridges operations center located in the Palazzo D'oro (named for its elegant gold leaf bons' floral facade) facing the Canale Grande; - Campo Est holds the Grande Fontana bronze circular basin water ballet fountain that emits patterned sprays of water at regular intervals and is illuminated after dark in the Hinoki Niwa arboretum; - Ca' Giardino Segreto[^ca-giardino-segreto] is a walled 'palace' whose exterior walls feature hand painted ceramic tiles in art nouveau patterned glass effect mosaics framed by art tiles that contains a tea house with several tranquil tea rooms for afternoon tea or chanoyu[^chanoyu] inside are italian and mediterranean gardens with gallica roses, olive and citrus trees, grape vines, lavender, jasmine, iris, oleander, herbs and bougainvillea in several differntly themed garden 'rooms' with interior walls of boxwood and cypress interspersed with paths lined with beds of native wildflowers and topiary shrubs to delight and entertain on the Canale Pesca; - the Sugar Plum Fairy factory and storefront creates konpeito, wagashi, and ramune candy and collecible dispensers, the factory offers tours and you may watch the artisan candy makers shape wagashi through the large store windows; - Rio dell'amore (recently renamed) is a canal some consider the most romantic in the city - its many tunnel like 'kissing bridges' are covered in love locks and the canal glistens from the reflection of the numerous keys thrown into the water symbolizing unbreakable love (due to public support the bridges were reinforced to support the locks which are now of special manufacture to be much lighter than average and the keys are cut from aggregate rocks and polished until shiny but not harmful to the water or wildlife); - Campo Belposto[^campo-belposto] at the end of Rio dell'amore has a huge sculptured weathered copper and gold leaf tree that many hang love locks and wishes from; - Ca' Serenissima[^ca-serenissima] is a grand palace in the rococo style, a splendorous an sumptuous resort hotel and casino (partnered with the aerofield) the 'ground' floor salons with their tromp-loil frescoes and murano glass chandeliers, tapestry hall, art gallery, cortile[^cortile] gardens and fountains, Shanderia[^shanderia] lobby bar, the Grande Brasserie noted for its menu of french classics and its art noveau interior, and the Bullion Casino are open to the public as long as you observe the upscale dress code [^city-hall]: city hall [^district-offices]: district offices [^rio-squero]: street canal - square, small dockyard [^kami-kowarawa-jinya]: nature deity river child shrine [^jinja-bashi]: red wooden shrine bridge [^il-punto]: the dot [^canale-pesca]: fishing canal - the main thoroughfare fishers use as transport to and from Subarashi Bei[^subarashi-bei] thru the city and lagoon [^grande-mercato]: great market [^brunjo-risorsu]: armour, protection resources [^palazzo-del-bovolo]: snail shell [^rio-notizie]: tidings canal [^ca-nottambuli]: house of night owls [^ca-nottambuli-details]: itself famous for its ornamental owl statuary, its pink marble facade bas-relief rose garden in bloom with owls camouflaged in trees surrounding the garden and some in flight over it, its compass rose stained glass windows decorated with owls, roses, local wildflowers, books, and tools of scholarship [^eunha]: galaxy [^rio-fabbrica]: fabricate, factory canal [^piazza-ava]: to breathe, to live [^campo-orto]: kitchen garden filelds [^sojitz]: twin suns [^sogoshosha]: general trading investment, and services company [^ca-giardino-segreto]: house of the secret garden [^chanoyu]: way of tea formal tea ceremony [^campo-belposto]: beautiful place [^ca-serenissima]: house of the most serene [^cortile]: inner courtyard [^shanderia]: chandelier [^yoshino-gawa]: pleasing river [^subarashi-bei]: wonderful bay [^samenoumi]: shark ocean [^hashi-hogo-koen]: bridge conservation park [^midoriiro-no-suija]: green watersnakes [^harinezumi]: hedgehogs [^aiiro-no-hebi]: indigo snakes [^ponte]: bridges [^calle]: pedestrian walking paths [^riva]: boat dock/walkway embankments [^skyways]: pedestrian walkways connecting buildings at their heights and over the canals [^promenades]: wide public leisure walkways suitable for pedestrians, cycles, and scooters [^engawa]: narrow wooden walkways [^kizuna-ponte]: bond bridge [^near-la-serenissima-aerofield]: near La Serenissima Aerofield [^sorenson-builders]: Sorenson Koichizoku of the Four Corners Zaibatsu [^traghetti]: small ferries [^vaporetto]: water bus system [^motoscafi]: water taxis [^locally-made-boats]: gondola, sandolo, mototopo, caorlina, cofano, batela [^hashi-port]: bridges [^fusina]: spinning wheel, spindle [^ponte-eki]: bridge railway station [^stantsiya-mostov]: bridges station [^la-serenissima]: the most very serene [^chorohyogikai]: elder council [^hinokibonchi-chihosaibansho]: cypress basin district court [^chiku-saibansho]: district courthouse [^hinokibonchi-chiku]: cypress basin district [^chiku-jimusho]: district office [^ombra]: local wine [^gondolini]: gondola designed for racing [^kamen-no-kaanibaru]: carnival of masks