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Prarthana Prakash

Venice is running out of gondoliers because of ‘generational change,’ even as record tourist numbers swarm the city

Gondolier in a small canal in Venice, Italy (Credit: Riccardo Fabi—NurPhoto/Getty Images)

Venice wouldn’t be Venice without its gondolas. The Italian city’s canals are made navigable thanks to these boats and their gondoliers, who have become as central to the Venetian tourist experience as visiting its iconic squares and eating its signature cicchetti (or bar bites).

But the city is now scrambling to save the tradition as gondoliers are becoming harder to come by. 

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