Gondolas/Vaporetto (2024)

WHAT IS A VAPORETTO?
Since gondolas can only hold a small amount of people, today Vaporetto's, or "water buses" are used to transport people along the canal. Just as we have buses as a form of public transportation through cities, the Vaporetto is used the same way but on water as Venice is a "city on water".

Tour of Grand Canal from view of a Vaporetto

Ryckaert, M. (2014) Venezia Vaporetto. Retrieved from http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Venezia_Vaporetto_ACTV42_R01.jpg/1599px-Venezia_Vaporetto_ACTV42_R01.jpg Available under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license

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Romantica, G. (2012). Gondolas. Retrieved March 29, 2015, from Gondola Romantica: http://www.gondolaromantica.com/gondolas.php

Mackenzie, W. Lloyd. (2011). A Gondola on the Grand Canal.[Digital Image]. Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/photos/saffron_blaze/. Available from Flickr.

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Ryckaert, M. (2014) Venezia Vaporetto. Retrieved from http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Venezia_Vaporetto_ACTV42_R01.jpg/1599px-Venezia_Vaporetto_ACTV42_R01.jpg Available under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license