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GONDOLAS

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Mackenzie, W. Lloyd. (2011). A Gondola on the Grand Canal. [Digital Image]. Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/photos/saffron_blaze/. Available from Flickr.
Originally from Venice, the gondola was created and still acts as a row boat to navigate the "city on water".  It's shape and size is such that only one person with one oar is needed to row across the canal (Romantica, 2012).

Drawing of an older gondola below - on the left is a photo of a gondola today.
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Foresman, P. Gondola. [Digital Image] Retrieved from http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/ Gondola_%28PSF%29.png/1598px-Gondola_%28PSF%29.png Available under Wikimedia Foundation.
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VAPORETTOS

WHAT IS A VAPORETTO?
Since gondolas can only hold a small amount of people, today Vaporetto's, or "water buses" are used to transport people along the canal.  Just as we have buses as a form of public transportation through cities, the Vaporetto is used the same way but on water as Venice is a "city on water".
Tour of Grand Canal from view of a Vaporetto
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Ryckaert, M. (2014) Venezia Vaporetto. Retrieved from http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/ Venezia_Vaporetto_ACTV42_R01.jpg/1599px-Venezia_Vaporetto_ACTV42_R01.jpg Available under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license
Sources: 
Foresman, P. Gondola. [Digital Image] Retrieved from http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Gondola_%28PSF%29.png/1598px-Gondola_%28PSF%29.png Available under Wikimedia Foundation.

Romantica, G. (2012). Gondolas. Retrieved March 29, 2015, from Gondola Romantica: http://www.gondolaromantica.com/gondolas.php


Mackenzie, W. Lloyd. (2011). A Gondola on the Grand Canal. [Digital Image]. Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/photos/saffron_blaze/. Available from Flickr. 

Plant, M. (2003). Venice: Fragile City, 1797-1997. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Ryckaert, M. (2014) Venezia Vaporetto. Retrieved from http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Venezia_Vaporetto_ACTV42_R01.jpg/1599px-Venezia_Vaporetto_ACTV42_R01.jpg Available under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license

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