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Thursday, 3 July 2025

Bucentaur

State barge of the doges of Venice


Bucentaur
Bucentaur

The bucentaur was the ceremonial barge of the doges of Venice. It was used every year on Ascension Day up to 1798 to take the doge out to the Adriatic Sea to perform the "Marriage of the Sea" – a ceremony that symbolically wedded Venice to the sea.

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