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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\r\nThe\u00a0gondola<\/strong>, the long black boat that moves sinuously in the canals of Venice, is one of the oldest symbols of Venice, famous throughout the world.<\/p>\r\n\r\n Enjoying the\u00a0Gondola’ Ride<\/strong>\u00a0is 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\u00a0Grand Canal<\/a>, which will bring the bride to the altar and the nuptial bed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n 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\u00a0kond\u00f9lion<\/em>\u00a0which indicates a cash or ill suited\u00a0kountel\u00e0s<\/em>\u00a0indicates that a ship short. <\/p>\r\n Since the dawn of the city as you move from island to island on boats that were made \u200b\u200bto the need for navigation in shallow lagoon waters, had to have a flat bottom to have less draft. An ancient chronicler wrote that the habitants of the lagoon islands\u00a0had the boat tied up out of the houses as the horses in the homes of the mainland<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n The\u00a0Voga Veneta<\/a>, rowing standing in the back of the boat, by Pope with the help of special oarlocks scarcely paralleled anywhere else in the world,\u00a0Forcole<\/a>, then becomes a need for Venetians.<\/p>\r\n\r\n Before she could get the gondola as we see it today it took centuries of changes and improvements in boat building that symbolizes more than any other\u00a0Venice<\/a>. It was the most comfortable boat that exist for passenger transport in the lagoon. On the central part, where are the seats during the cold season, was covered with a special cab,\u00a0Felze<\/strong>\u00a0(you can see in this photo taken apart in front of the old\u00a0Doge’s Palace<\/a>) , which allowed the insulation from the cold and also from the gondolier, having glass windows and a front door. The felze was completely covered by a cloth called rassa from turkish serge, which was produced in the vicinity of\u00a0St. Mark’s<\/a>\u00a0in the street that is still\u00a0Calle delle Rasse<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n The gondolas were built on sites scattered throughout the city, the so-called\u00a0Squeri<\/a>. Were places in which there was a ramp out of the water from which it could easily launch or bring dry the boat when water wascoming in<\/em>, that is, when the wood, not more welded together, began to filter in water inside the boat. The most famous, because it’s easier to see from the foundation side, and is currently still operating as a few others is the\u00a0Squero di San Trovaso<\/a>. Not very far, but more hidden, is the\u00a0squero of D.co Tramontin<\/strong>, famous throughout the world for its beauty and longevity of its gondolas.<\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n To build a\u00a0Gondola\u00a0<\/strong>is necessary to use different types of wood in relation to the position of the wood and its\u00a0behavior\u00a0<\/em>in relation to other woods. Is used\u00a0oak\u00a0<\/strong>due to its hardness in the construction of your hips, the more prone to strokes with other boats or on the shore , the\u00a0trasto<\/strong>\u00a0to the bottom of why light and helps the smoothness of vessel, the\u00a0cherry\u00a0<\/strong>for\u00a0contrasts<\/em>\u00a0hard and resistant to stress because of the weight, ( the contrast is the\u00a0cross\u00a0<\/em>that combines the two\u00a0bands\u00a0<\/em>in the bow, the place from which you go by boat ), the\u00a0larch\u00a0<\/strong>due to its resistance to water , the\u00a0linden\u00a0<\/strong>to building\u00a0succhetto<\/em>\u00a0, the position of the gondolier at the stern, subject to constant friction and wear , the\u00a0walnut\u00a0<\/strong>due to its flexibility in the construction of the frames ( it is shaped by heating with fire after having plenty of wet , heating up the part that is cake and scope, patiently , to have the shape) , the\u00a0elm<\/strong>\u00a0to the ribs of the structure, and finally the\u00a0mahogany\u00a0<\/strong>becomes homogeneous along the structure, aggregating the other woods.<\/p>\r\n\r\n An association was created to unite all of the components of the filmmakers\u00a0Gondola’.\u00a0El Felze<\/a>\u00a0is his name and associates’<\/strong>\u00a0‘squerari\u00f2li and remeri, oton\u00e8ri and Fravi, intagiad\u00f2ri and indorad\u00f2ri<\/em>\u00a0and then again’<\/strong>\u00a0‘Marangoni and tapesi\u00e8ri, Bareteri, Calegheri and tailors ‘\u00a0‘. <\/p>\r\n\r\n Just because the symbol of the city\u00a0Gondola<\/strong>\u00a0is also sought for all events that are to highlight the\u00a0Venetian<\/em>\u00a0event, in so many races can not miss gondolas and gondoliers\u00a0private<\/em>\u00a0that join the marches. During the\u00a0Historical Regatta<\/a>\u00a0gondolas lead the procession carrying the most important offices, civil and ecclesiastical, ambassadors and princes of other states, but their use is not exclusive to romantic serenades and festively decorated is the dream of every bride Venetian who, with long white veil, the gondoliers clothes from\u00a0parada<\/em>, gilded armchairs and groom side, reach the maximum of happiness along the\u00a0Grand Canal<\/a>\u00a0knowing that all eyes are directed at them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n The gondola’s iron is the very essence of the city of\u00a0Venice<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n 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.<\/p>\r\n 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\u00a0Venice<\/a>. Starting at the top of the gondola iron is distinctly recognizes the form a Horn Dukes, also known as\u00a0zoia\u00a0o<\/strong>r<\/em>\u00a0Zogia<\/em><\/strong>, the Doge’s hat, which was the symbol of the head of city government since from the birth of the city. Below, before the Rostra, a bow for many symbolizes the\u00a0Rialto’s Bridge<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n Among the front bolts, interspersed with three small forms as if they were lace, the gondoliers the call leaves indicate the three largest islands of the Venetian,\u00a0Murano<\/a>,\u00a0Burano<\/a>,\u00a0Torcello<\/a>\u00a0, locations of important and fundamental landmarks of the city.<\/p>\r\n\r\n The Ferro da Pope<\/strong>\u00a0is instead a small sprout which demonstrates the sophistication of the builders of Gondolas. One such example. The curl back, or\u00a0da pope<\/strong>, on some gondolas, being the high point of Piau\u00a0Gondola<\/a>\u00a0is partially cut to allow the transit under the bridges even in\u00a0High Tide<\/a>. In this case, the hedgehog leans on a pin and not strip under the bridges during the transit of the gondola. Obviously the Gondolier must fall under certain conditions even lie down on the mirror by pope, keeping a hand with the handling of the boat.<\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n<\/figure><\/div>\r\n
Of course, the origin does not affect the popularity of the craft, although the oldest form of\u00a0gondola<\/strong>\u00a0was 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\u00a0Forcola<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\r\n
For more necessary that the driver could look ahead to avoid going to slam on floating logs or on the banks emerged\u00a0Barene<\/a>. For even improve thrust and have more control, the inhabitants of\u00a0Barene<\/a>\u00a0had a particular technique of rowing with two oars, this technique is referred to the note\u00a0valesana mode<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Over the centuries, the most glitz of the families of Venice in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the gondolas in\u00a0Venice<\/a>\u00a0were 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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n
Once the wooden construction of the\u00a0Gondola<\/strong>\u00a0is appropriately decorated, and each\u00a0gondolier<\/strong>\u00a0has the opportunity to decorate their own gondola with special embellishments and accessories.
Some nacelles have the\u00a0transom<\/strong>\u00a0carved or painted, others have the\u00a0brass<\/strong>\u00a0is beside the chair on which\u00a0Faral<\/strong>, 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\u00a0Forcola<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0row<\/strong>, 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,\u00a0custom<\/strong>\u00a0the gondolier.<\/p>\r\n
<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\nThe gondola’s iron<\/h2>\r\n\r\n
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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).\u00a0San Marco<\/a>,\u00a0Castello<\/a>,\u00a0Cannaregio<\/a>,\u00a0Dorsoduro<\/a>,\u00a0Santa Croce<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0San Polo<\/a>, which in turn were divided into\u00a0‘de citra<\/em>‘ the first three, and ‘de<\/em>\u00a0ultra<\/em>‘ the second, in relation to their position on this side or that side of the\u00a0Grand Canal<\/a>.
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Last, but not least, the\u00a0Giudecca<\/a>\u00a0or 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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