People gather to watch a woman dressed in a traditional costume descend from the bell tower into St. Mark's square, during the "Angel's flight", one of the highlights of the Venice Carnival, in Venice, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Luigi Costantini)
The trailer for The Tourist — starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp — just hit the web. The storyline is, in a word, vague. So we've written our own narrative instead.
[Venice, August 20. Giorgia Boscolo smiles beside her gondola, background, in Venice's Grand Canal. After nine hundred years of male dominance in the profession, Venice is going to have its first official female gondolier.]
Giorgia Boscolo, 24, has passed her final exam and, if granted a license, will this week become Venice's first female gondolier. The exam is a challenging one, covering Venetian geography, waterways and history.
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Giorgia Boscolo is the first woman in nine centuries to be a gondalier in Venice. [Reuters]
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