The Historical Regatta is the main appointment of the annual calendar of Voga Veneta races, a unique discipline practiced in the world of millennia in the Venice lagoon. Today it is made even more spectacular by the famous historical procession that precedes the competitions: a parade of dozens and dozens of typical sixteenth-century boats, multicolored anche with costumed gondoliers, carrying the Doge, the Dogaressa and all the highest offices of the Venetian magistracy, in a faithful reconstruction of the glorious past of one of the most powerful and influential Maritime Republics in the Mediterranean. Today the four competitions are divided into categories of age and types of boats: the most famous and exciting is the Regatta of champions on gondolini, whizzing along the Grand Canal to the finish line in front of the famous “machina”, a spectacular floating stage in front of the Ca’ Foscari Palace.
