Calendario dei gondolieri 2007
new guide:

GONDOLAS & GONDOLIERS

a brief introduction to the world of the gondola and ethnographic annotations on gondoliers

by

Piero Pazzi

PARTE I

A RIDE IN GONDOLA

If you decide to visit Venice, do not leave without having taken a ride in a gondola. I recommend this incomparable emotional experience which costs less than you think!

In fact, it is only from the water that you have a unique vision of our city, and it is only in this way that you will really appreciate her essence and, as a spectator of an endless parade of the traces that make up what was an unique civilisation.

Moreover, from the water, it is possible to observe and more or less understand the state of disrepair and abandon in which Venice lies, and how she is kept by her inhabitants and aboveall, by her governors.

Seen from the water, Venice is revealed in all her essence, who like a woman on a beach, that deprived of her clothes and accessories of every type, shows her real, basic aspect and what she is actually made of. This is certainly not the place to bore the reader with the numerous problems of our city, who could be likened to an old woman found dead in her bathtub with all her jewels.

Anyhow, a ride in a gondola, other than being educational under many aspects, is an unforgettable gift that you could give your friends and is a perfect and unique occasion to make your promises of love.

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