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2. Gondola - Wikipedia

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   [2] Various types of gondola boats are also used in special regattas (rowing races) held amongst gondoliers. Their primary role today, however, is to carry tourists on rides at fixed rates. [3] There are approximately 400 licensed gondoliers in Venice and a similar number of boats, down from the thousands that travelled the canals centuries ago ...

3. People rave about the gondola rides in Venice, but it paled ...

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   When my kids and I went to Venice, we did one of the city's famous gondola rides. However, our private rowing lesson was way more worth it.

4. The Presentation of the Ring - Wikipedia

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   Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice. The Fisherman Presenting the Ring to Doge Gradenigo is a 1534 oil-on-canvas painting by the Venetian Renaissance painter Paris Bordone (1495–1570). It was painted in Venice for the confraternity of San Marco in 1540. [1] The painting treats the legend behind the tempest that struck Venice on 15 February 1340.

5. Venice gondola capsizes after tourists stand to take selfies

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   A group of Chinese tourists landed in cold water in Venice after the gondola they were in flipped over while they were standing up to take selfies.

6. Bridge of Sighs - Wikipedia

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   The view from the Bridge of Sighs was the last view of Venice that convicts saw before their imprisonment. The bridge's English name was bestowed by Lord Byron in the 19th century as a translation from the Italian "Ponte dei sospiri", [2] [3] from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of beautiful Venice through the window before being taken down to their cells.

7. Venice tourists capsize gondola, fall into freezing canal ...

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   People take a gondola ride by the Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal in Venice on September 9, 2020, on the eighth day of the 77th Venice Film Festival, during the COVID-19 infection, caused by the ...