Sailing on gondolas

If there is a country that I would like to go to, it is Italy, particularly Venice. I found it so lovely, its canals, its houses, its squares, almost everything!.The architecture is gorgeous. Venice has beautiful big buildings and cute little bridges. I like it because it has no cars, that means, no smog, no bothering noises,no honking, no nothing! What I do not like is the smell. Peolpe say that it does not smell very well, that it stinks actually. People also say that it is very expensive and I do not like that either.
I do no tknow so much about it, apart of the gondola riding, what it is something I would love to do. I also would like to have a walk through its small streets and its squares.
If I would have the chance to live there, I would like to have a big house and rent bedrooms for tourists, or have a coffe shop or maybe, have a gondola enterprise, like cabs company, but with gondolas. It would be fun, but slow.