Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Picture of the Week: The only car in Venice

A wooden Ferrari is the only car allowed in Venice

 

Weighing 2,000 pounds, a wooden model of a Ferrari F50 is the only “car” allowed in Venice.

 

Ferrari boat
The wooden Ferrari boat fits in perfectly in Venice

 

Powered by a Yamaha boat engine, the whittled pine vehicle is the creation of a craftsman named Livio De Marchi and took five months to build in 2001. De Marchi has also built a Jaguar, a VW Beetle, a Mercedes and a pumpkin carriage out of wood and recently donated them all to the San Diego Air & Space Museum.

 

Our Picture of the Week shows the Ferrari in Venice and of his experiences, De Marchi comments:

 

“I thought Venice would be like it was a hundred or two-hundred years ago when there weren’t any motorboats and you could travel along in a beautiful, peaceful way… But, paddling along in my little boat, I got out on the Grand Canal and all of a sudden up came the waves and the motorboats”.

 

“I said to my little son, who was with me, we’ve got to go back because this Grand Canal has turned into a freeway”.

 

 

 

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      • You are so bloody boring. Do you ever talk about anything other than the child that was disgracefully left by two irresponsible parents? Gerry and Kate McCann should have been charged with child neglect.

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