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Gondola Service, Venice, Italy. As per "why is it that all gondolas are black?", here's the answer: "In 1562 it was decreed that all gondolas should be black to stop people making an ostentatious show of their wealth". Source: Editors, Eyewitness Travel Guides EUROPE, DK Publishing Inc., New York, NY, 2004, p 439.

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