On the last full day in Venice Giovanni’s family had kindly offered us a visit to a gondola factory. This gondola factory is the only original hand making gondola factory in Venice. Once we arrived we met several workers that explained to us lots of important points about gondolas. While we listened to the head gondola maker, we learned that gondolas must be built to exact measurements. Those measurements are 11 meters long and 1.40 meters wide. Another fact about gondolas is that it takes about two months to make a gondola, which means they can only make about two gondolas a year because they construct them by hand using old methods. Gondolas are black because they have become a famous tourist attraction, and it’s the cheapest and easiest color to use. They weigh 350 kg each, and we learned that in Venice there are 423 men and 2 women gondaliers.
Kamalei von Meister and Nicklas Wolfe, Grade 6
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