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.
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:
I particularly loved seeing those gondolas in the tranquil small waterways, strangely familiar and comforting.
The locals and brave tourists would cross the Grand Canal via a commuter gondola, Traghetto, standing:
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:
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