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A gondola ride in a narrow canal in Venice, Italy. The first mention ever of an Italian gondola was in Venice in 1094 and, of course, there have been gondoliers as long as there have been gondolas - so it’s one of the oldest professions in the world. Until August 2010, there had never been a single woman gondolier in Venice as licences were always passed down to male family members. Current prices (2015) is 80 Euros for a 40-minute journey (earning them approx 130,000 Euros a year) along the waterways of this old city but rarely do gondoliers wear their straw hat.

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A gondola ride in a narrow canal in Venice, Italy. The first mention ever of an Italian gondola was in Venice in 1094 and, of course, there have been gondoliers as long as there have been gondolas - so it’s one of the oldest professions in the world. Until August 2010, there had never been a single woman gondolier in Venice as licences were always passed down to male family members. Current prices (2015) is 80 Euros for a 40-minute journey (earning them approx 130,000 Euros a year) along the waterways of this old city but rarely do gondoliers wear their straw hat.
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