The Italian city offering exclusive job for up to £127,000 - but there's a huge catch

Venice is one of the world's most iconic cities (Image: Getty) One of Italy's most popular tourist destinations is offering people the chance to work and live in the city for a whopping £127,000 a year. Venice is looking for gondoliers to take tourists through the city's iconic canals . Applicants have to be 18 and over, have a school-level education, and know how to swim.

They also need to speak Italian. Those who become a gondolier will first have to embark on a six-month training course, costing around £850 for 400 hours of training. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.

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