Venetian Gondola
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Enjoying the Gondola' Ride is a dream for all the tourists who visit the city and for the Venetians, too. The brides do decorate the Venetian Gondola to party with white flowers, are accompanied by two handsome gondoliers dressed in white with a belt of sea bream and rise envied by her friends for the most beautiful location on the Grand Canal, which will bring the bride to the altar and the nuptial bed.
The origin of the name is yet to be determined. The most credible version indicates that cymbula derives from the Latin, which means litle boat, but other sources indicate the origin in the Greek words kondùlion which indicates a cash or ill suited kountelàs indicates that a ship short.
Of course, the origin does not affect the popularity of the craft, although the oldest form of gondola was very different from today and only innovation and change have changed and improved a lot the technical characteristics and the lightness of the lines that make it a dream in the collective imagination.
11 meters long, 1.40 wide and 0.65 high about, has an asymmetrical shape in the longitudinal axis, the one that runs through the boat from bow to stern, with a deviation of about 24cm to the right than the left. This allows the gondolier to more easily maneuver the boat, to compensate for the deviation, having to stand on the transom moved up on the left side, with a special crutch, the Forcola.
For more necessary that the driver could look ahead to avoid going to slam on floating logs or on the banks emerged Barene. For even improve thrust and have more control, the inhabitants of Barene had a particular technique of rowing with two oars, this technique is referred to the note valesana mode.
The Voga Veneta, rowing standing in the back of the boat, by Pope with the help of special oarlocks scarcely paralleled anywhere else in the world, Forcole, then becomes a need for Venetians.
Over the centuries, the most glitz of the families of Venice in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the gondolas in Venice were more than 10,000 and nobles vied with each other by decorating the boat with gold, stucco and bright colors, so that the Senate had intervene to stop this race to the luxury and ostentation of wealth, imposing black color for all gondolas with a decree dated October 8, 1562.
Once the wooden construction of the Gondola is appropriately decorated, and each gondolier has the opportunity to decorate their own gondola with special embellishments and accessories.
Some nacelles have the transom carved or painted, others have the brass is beside the chair on which Faral, the light on top for moving by night, the seats are precious fabrics and pillow cover that is soft and colorful, not to mention the Forcola and row, essential for the government of the gondola and must be constructed in relation to the height of the person who has to use, the its weight, the force he uses to proceed with the boat, in a word, custom the gondolier.
An association was created to unite all of the components of the filmmakers Gondola'. El Felze is his name and associates' 'squerariòli and remeri, otonèri and Fravi, intagiadòri and indoradòri and then again' 'Marangoni and tapesièri, Bareteri, Calegheri and tailors ' '.
The gondola's iron
Of great importance and essential for the stability of the boat, is fitted to balance the weight of the gondolier at the stern, but he shapes and designs that evoke the peculiarities blinds.
The shape of the iron has been studied in detail so that it can focus on a single object, even if part of a specific entity and specifying the context of a well-known internationally, the socio-political structure of the city, the geographical distribution, with all its specific parts without forgetting even the smallest as well as the legal form of the state of the Republic of Venice.
The six bolts that are aligned in succession on the front indicate the geographical division of the city with its six districts (districts precisely because you are not neighborhoods like those of the Roman memory, which divided the Roman camp in four parts). San Marco, Castello, Cannaregio, Dorsoduro, Santa Croce and San Polo, which in turn were divided into 'de citra 'the first three, and' de ultra 'the second, in relation to their position on this side or that side of the Grand Canal.
Last, but not least, the Giudecca or Spinalonga, which for its geographical position is indicated in the iron from the gondola in the rear, which stands out because only the outer part of a curved line, which from the top of the Horn Duke arrives, like a sinuous wave, to caress the water and merge into one with the boat.
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