Word goes out of the strange practices, the two families pouring all their resources into a competition of great dams and flood-walls. Travellers passing through town stare in bemusement, and wonder what strange force would lead the families to waste so much resources on a minor stream through the woods.
Both families are conquered by an outside force. Stripped of their land in all but name, the natives continue to build dams and flood-walls to attract tourists, but their hearts are no longer in it.
Both families are conquered by an outside force. Stripped of their land in all but name, the natives continue to build dams and flood-walls to attract tourists, but their hearts are no longer in it.
The squabbles of Genoa and Venice were indeed quashed by Napoleon.