What is the name of the steam powered boat used in venice?

Question

What is the name of the steam powered boat used in venice?

Answer 1

derek

Answer 2

its vaporetto (vapore means steam in italian) and its used like a bus for normal cities.

Answer 3

VAPORETTO

Answer 4

the once "steamed-powered" boat  is called vaporètto, commonly called vaporìno by Venetian residents (plural vaporètti and vaporìni). the ones in service are quite old and may look... steam engines operated, but they have diesel engines. projects are ongoing for electric vaporetti to replace these ones.

(who dared say gondola????? a gondola is the most romantic boat in the world, with a rowing gondolier!! the engine of the gondola is love :)

Answer 5

Sorry - I haven't come accross that one!  Are you sure?

Have got my book out and there is no mention of it in there either!

gondole

water taxis

motoscafi - small fast motorised craft

motonave - large double-decker craft

vaporetti - small passenger ferries

traghetti - gondola-ferry service across the Grand Canal

Answer 6

vaporetto

they where steam powered, now they have a normal engine

Answer 7

You're thinking of the bus-boats called 'vaporetti' (singular = 'vaporetto').

The vaporetto canal-bus service began in Venice at the end of the 19th century and at that time they were, indeed, steam-powered. The word 'vaporetto' actually means 'little steamboat'.

These days, I'm afraid, they have ordinary diesel engines.

Answer 8

La Gondola.

Answer 9

There are no more steam-powered boats in use in Venice anymore. They are now diesel.

They are called Vaporetto, or Vaporetti for more than one.

Answer 10

gondola i'm italian... they are very beautiful