For centuries gondola were the main transportation and watercraft within Venice, which is the famous city surrounded by water. Nowadays, gondolas main role is to serve as water taxi and act as an attraction for Venice tourism industry. I always imagined myself seating in a gondola whenever I saw the gondola image from pictures or from the movies, and now I finally had a ride in it with my loved ones and my fellow friends.
How does it feel then? Well, satisfaction.
I hope you can enjoy the gondola ride "virtually" through my photos. Happy viewing!!!
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| It's kind of shaky, but no worries |
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| Our gondolier |
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| Thanks so much for this shot |
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| GoPro, yeah. Will post photos captured by GoPro then |
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| A "good-looking" family |
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ReplyDeleteBased on what I have read on a website, Gondolas are handmade using 8 different types of wood (fir, oak, cherry, walnut, elm, mahogany, larch and lime) and are composed of 280 pieces. The oars are made of beech wood. The left side of the gondola is made longer than the right side. This asymmetry causes the gondola to resist the tendency to turn toward the left at the forward stroke. It is a common misconception that the gondola is a paddled vessel when the correct term is rowed i.e. "I rowed my gondola to work".
Extensive measures have been taken to protect the Cenacolo fresco from further damage. To ensure that the fresco is kept at room temperature, admission has been restricted to a maximum of 25 visitors at any one time since the 1999 reopening.
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ReplyDeleteIn relation with Literature, the Japanese manga Aria follows a young woman named Akari as she trains as an apprentice gondolier in Neo-Venezia, a city on a terraformed Mars based on Venice.
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