Smugglers' Quay was once the place where mutilations pronounced by the Common Court against offenders were carried out.

Today, these festivities take place on Pillory Square in the Prosperity, and Smugglers' Quay with its many warehouses has become the arrival and departure point for merchant ships and passengers transports of all sizes.

Everything is sold and bought there. The seaweed cultivated along the lake, the rice from the Languishings Marshes, the products from the Six Provinces, everything passes through this quay and contributes to the incessant bustle of the place, day and night. Add the continuous ballet of tax collectors, beggars, thieves, penniless pilgrims in search of a core of Sea Kale or a small dockworker job and you will have an idea of the dense, screaming, sweating and smelly crowd that animates the place.

The famous Annual Race of the Porters-Freighters starts from Smugglers' Quay.

The only island of fragrant calm and costly tranquility is located on a slight promontory barely protected from the tumult. There blooms the House of the Thousand Flowers, one of the oldest institutions of the Holy City.