gondola -the symbol of Venice.Gondola appeared in Venice in the seventh century.The cost of one gondola up to thirty thousand Euros, and the time of manufacture up to three years.
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gondola -the symbol of Venice. Gondola appeared in Venice
in the seventh century. The cost of one gondola up
to thirty thousand Euros, and the time of manufacture up to three years.
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The gondola is a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing
boat, well suited to the conditions of the Venetian
lagoon.
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Say the word 'gondola', and romantic moon-lit evenings
spent lazily floating along any one of Venice's countless
canals
spring to mind. However, gondolas are far more than
that.
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Before the advent of motorised boats, gondolas, because
of
their manoeuvrability and speed, were used to
transport both people
and goods within the city and to the nearest islands. originally used as a private means of transport for the wealthy, gondolas quickly became a sort
of 'taxi' for people of all classes to get from one part of
the city to another.
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Every year on the first Sunday of September
in Venice with its famous Regata Storica. Before the