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A gondola ride in Venice is one of the most iconic experiences in Europe. When I recently visited Italy with my children, it was one of the experiences I was most looking forward to sharing with them.
Venice gondola tours are reducing capacity on their boats because of too many overweight tourists, the Guardian reported Tuesday. The smaller boats running through the city’s charming canals ...
Juanma Aparicio/Adobe Stock Gondolas are no cheap mass-produced boats. Bognolo says his hand-carved and inlaid vessel cost €60,000 ($59,000), and he spends €3,000 each year repainting it.
VENICE, Italy – A German tourist was crushed to death on Saturday after the gondola he was riding in collided with a larger boat ferrying passengers along Venice's Grand Canal, authorities said.
The capacity of Venice's gondolas is being reduced from six to five people due to the growing weight of tourists. The iconic boats have been taking on more water in recent years as visitors to the ...
VENICE, Italy — A German tourist was crushed to death on Saturday after the gondola he was riding in collided with a larger boat ferrying passengers along Venice’s Grand Canal, authorities said.
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 ...
Notes from the Venice Biennale: Hot-rod gondolas in the Grand Canal and L.A. art in a 15th-century palazzo May 31, 2011 3:52 PM PT ...
LONG BEACH — Mike O’Toole is making his 28th journey to Venice, Italy, on Monday to compete in its annual gondola race. The Long Beach entrepeneur heads up the only American crew that will ...
Editor’s note: Michael O’Toole, a Long Beach resident and owner of the Gondola Getaway, which has operated in the Naples neighborhood for the past 28 years, has been the only American t… ...