Friday, June 28, 2013

Gondolas in Venice, Italy


DSCN9988 _ Palazzo Ducale, Venezia, 11 October

In Venice, Italy, Gondolas have ubiquitous presences and are the most recognizable symbols of this lovely emerald city surrounded by lagoon and laced with the canals grand and small.  Those shining black leaf-shaped row boats, set off the green water and the pale marbled palazzi along the canals brilliantly.

Last October, when I visited Venice, naturally, I snapped many pictures of those flat-bottom, sharp-tipped boats traveling in the canal, lagoon, or mooring in the cove.

DSCN0628 - Gondola in Venice, October 2012

DSCN0625 - Gondola in Venice, October 2012

DSCN0623 _ Gondolas near Rialto, Venezia, 12 October

DSCN1156 - Gondola in Piazza San Marco, Venice, October 2012

DSCN9951 _ Piazza San Marco, Venezia, 10 October

DSCN1132 _ view of Giorgio Maggiore from Piazza di San Marco, 13 October

DSCN1147 _ Gondolas at Piazza di San Marco, 13 October

DSCN1172 _ Gondolas at Piazza di San Marco, 13 October

One morning, one my way to the opera house, La Fenice, from Piazza San Marco, I stumbled upon a cove Agenzia Gondolieri Travel Bacino Orseolo, where gondolas parked overnight and it was quite a sight:

DSCN1310 _ Gondolas, Agenzia Gondolieri Travel Bacino Orseolo, 13 October

DSCN1326 _ Gondolas, Agenzia Gondolieri Travel Bacino Orseolo, 13 October

DSCN1315 _ Gondolas, Agenzia Gondolieri Travel Bacino Orseolo, 13 October DSCN1332 _ Gondolas, Agenzia Gondolieri Travel Bacino Orseolo, 13 October
 
DSCN1314 _ Gondolas, Agenzia Gondolieri Travel Bacino Orseolo, 13 October

DSCN1376 _ Gondolas, Agenzia Gondolieri Travel Bacino Orseolo, 13 October

DSCN1320 _ Gondolas, Agenzia Gondolieri Travel Bacino Orseolo, 13 October

DSCN1321 _ Gondolas, Agenzia Gondolieri Travel Bacino Orseolo, 13 October

I particularly loved seeing those gondolas in the tranquil small waterways, strangely familiar and comforting.

DSCN1377 _ Gondolas, Agenzia Gondolieri Travel Bacino Orseolo, 13 October

DSCN1382 _ gondolas near La Fenice, Venezia, 13 October DSCN1378 - Gondola in Venice, October 2012

DSCN1394 - Gondola in Venice, October 2012

DSCN1685 _ Gondolier, Venezia, 13 October

The locals and brave tourists would cross the Grand Canal via a commuter gondola, Traghetto, standing:

DSCN2155 - Traghetto Crossing the Grand Canal, Venezia, October 2012

Lastly, in front of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, I spotted in the Grand Canal a gondolier nonchalantly speaking on his cellular phone.  For us, gondolas were a thrilling novelty; for the locals, it was simply a way of life:

DSCN2288 _ Gondola in front of Collezione Peggy Guggenheim, Venezia, 14 October



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