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~ La Arsenale and the ships ~

La' Arsenale, the Venetian shipbuilding complex, is facility of shipyards and armories clustered together in the city; owned by the state, the Arsenale is responsible for the bulk of the Venetian republic's naval power. Spanning an area of about 45 hectares (110 acres), or about fifteen percent of Venice. Surrounded by a 3.2 km (2-mile) rampart, laborers and shipbuilders regularly worked within the Arsenal, building ships that sailed from the city's port.

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