'Serenading gondolas' banned from Venice

(ANSA) - Venice, February 5 - Groups of 'serenading' gondolas gathered under historic palazzi in the lagoon city may become a thing of the past under new water-traffic regulations issued Thursday.
    Gondolas must now travel in single file on the left-hand side of canals, with motorised vessels going down the right and overtaking to the left, a commissioner-prefect ordered.
    Craft longer than 3.5 metres will be banned from passing under the Rialto Bridge, where a German tourist died in a collision between a gondola and a vaporetto in 2013.