The San Trovaso Squero
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Equipped with a slide that facilitates the boats hauling operations, has a covered area for the actual construction of the gondolas, where on a particular model called dima, prepares the backbone of boat, keeping the particular measures that the Gondola currently has, which are the sum of the experiences of hundreds of years of boat building more representative of Venice.
Just at sites like this one can admire the particularities of the Gondola as its longitudinal asymmetry that allows a single driver to maneuver it while standing on the transom (hence the name of the Venetian gondoliers called precisely Pope ), with special devices, by means of Forcola, the rowlock with which you do all the maneuvers required in the conduct of the vessel, we proceed forward, turn left and right, braking and also it recedes all placing the oar in a special way for each maneuver.