Sunset on the Grand Canal

Photograph by Osamah Alajmi , National Geographic Your Shot

A gondola floats through the waters of Venice s famed Grand Canal at sunset. Venice's gondolas are painted black in accordance with a 17th-century law preventing nobles from competing for the most elaborate boat.

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