Venice is built on a number of islands, the main one of which is connected with the mainland by a stup of railway viaduct, just as a ship is moored to a dock wall. By order of a past ruler of the “floating city,.all the gondolas were painted black, a custom that .prevails’ to- this -day.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22398, 20 October 1934, Page 18
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