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A gondola ride
San Marco 3613, Venice, Italy Phone: 041 5285075 www.gondolavenezia.itAbout
The gondola boat is unique and fascinating. Its components still carry names such peculiar and mysterious sound fairy.The gondola could only be born in one place by secret charm the squero. The boatyard is a kind of site for the construction of boats. His name seems to derive from the greek eskharion yard, slipway for launching small some scholar of the Venetian would derive from squara, the tool used by carpenters.But if the etymology is rather uncertain, one thing is certain: in a Venice built on a tangle of islands and canals, the art of building boats was vital and the "squeri" which swept the city as the ganglia of the lymphatic system.
