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Bragana

This vessel, built in 1940 in Chioggia, is the only remaining specimen of the bardana from Chioggia. In use until 1961, this craft was employed in the lagoon, utilizing special netting also called “bargagna” (unpreserved) that permitted the boat to trawl bragagne could cruise almost the entirety of the vast lagoon areas called “Palui”, where the water rarely exceeded one metre in depth on the normal tide. Its two crew members were often away from home for several weeks, living on board and sleeping in the compartment under the bow, fishing throughout the lagoon and selling fish in the Rialto.

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Uploaded on December 2, 2021
Taken on October 27, 2015