As we all know, the beautiful water city sceneries and splendid history and cultures of Venice city of Italy will attract the attentions of more than 20 million people from all over the world every year. Besides, the oldest and most ancient Venice Film Festival in the world which is usually held in August and September every year will also attract thousands of film fans to come here. As long as you come to Venice, you will have the chance to take on a kind of small black boat and local people usually regard it as the daily transportation and travelling tool, and its name is gondolas.
Furthermore, this kind of thin and slim as well as light small pointed boat with special and fine structure and features usually passes across the meandering and narrow water lane of Venice, which has become the daily transportation tool of local people in Venice. Also, the whole Venice city is made up of more than 110 small islands, and more than 170 waterways connect each area of Venice.
Moreover, the outer appearance of gondolas is various and different from each other originally. Also, the nobles in the ancient Venice manufactured and designed the beautiful and colorful outer appearance for gondolas and also decorated gondolas with exquisite and fine carvings and decorations so as to show off their high social status and identify. And there even existed the flexible canopies in the center of the cabin of gondolas, which can be used to shelter the sunshine and rain. However, in order to forbid this kind of extravagant atmosphere, the senate of Venice later issued an injunction that there must not be any decorations which can show off the high social status and identify on the pointed boat—gondolas. Thus, all the gondolas were painted into the black color after that. And this kind of unique style was also constantly inherited from that time to modern times, and the ancient gondolas became the modern shape we see at present.
Furthermore, tourists usually sit on the special gondolas and pass across all kinds of waterways to enjoy and appreciate the famous architecture standing on both sides of the lakes which were totally established in the AD14th century or AD16th century, and these famous and ancient architectures owned different and various styles, such as the Byzantine style, the Gothic style and the Baroque style, etc. In the meantime, tourists are all deeply attracted by these famous and ancient architectures and historical cultures as well. To be honest, the gondolas of Venice offers a kind of elegant and lively as well as flexible features to the ancient Venice, just like the black watertown wizard.
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