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L'Italia che piace - Architettura - Part 8 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Apulia is famous for the characteristic trullo. But another typical building is the lamia, a rural building with a square base, sloping dry stone walls and a roof usually made with a lowered barrel vault or a dome. This characteristically simple construction consists of a single room, used as a temporary shelter for the farm's agricultural workers or storage. Today, many of these farms have been transformed into hotels.

L'Italia che piace - Architettura - Part 7 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Architect Enza Martellota explains the origins of the trullo and how it developed over time.

L'Italia che piace - Architettura - Part 6 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Designers come from all over the world to maintain an international style. Production is carried out almost exclusively in the plant located in Umbria but most of what is produced will go to markets abroad.

L'Italia che piace - Architettura - Part 5 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

EMU specializes in furniture for the outdoors. But it got its start in post-war Italy by designing metal desks for schoolrooms.

L'Italia che piace - Architettura - Part 4 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

When innovation and sustainability meet, creative projects emerge. International designers, carefully chosen materials, and strategies give life to quality products to show the whole world.

L'Italia che piace - Architettura - Part 3 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

In 1949 Giulio Castelli had a great idea: to bring into Italian homes objects that were useful, but also beautifully designed. The Kartell brand came onto the market.

L'Italia che piace - Architettura - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

We visit two wineries, Rocca di Frassinello in the Maremma, near Grosseto in the southern part of Tuscany, and the famous Antinori winery in the heart of the Chianti Classico zone.

La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 14 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Advanced Advanced

Italy

As the credits role in this final segment, we hear a song written and performed by Fabrizio De André (together with Massimo Bubola. Una storia sbagliata (a story all wrong) was commissioned for a 1980 TV show about Pasolini's death, called Dietro il processo (behind the trial). You can hear the entire song here, while here you'll find the complete lyrics in Italian.

L'Italia che piace - Architettura - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

In 2017,the region of Tuscany promoted an architectural project, collaborating to build a network of 14 wine cellars that unite a passion for design, respect for the natural environment, and the high quality of the wine they produce.

Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 12 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Alessandro Piperno comes from a mixed Jewish family and recounts how he learned, at an early age, to cherish the relationship between Jerusalem and Rome, where Christianity and Judaism blend. Thus we come to the end of this episode about the region of Lazio.

La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 13 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Advanced Advanced

Italy

Pier Paolo Pasolini discusses the effects Fascism had on Italy. He talks about the city of Sabaudia, built by the fascist government on the reclaimed marshland of the ancient Pontine Marshes (Agro Pontino) and how later, what took hold was the culture of consumerism.

Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 11 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Annalena continues her conversation with Piperno in his favorite restaurant. They look at some photos from his past while they wait for their meal to be served.

La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 12 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Advanced Advanced

Italy

Pasolini talks about the gates to the city of Orte. They may be simple, and built by unnamed men, but that doesn't mean they don't have value to protect. He moves on to talk about Sabaudia, a city built by the fascist regime, on reclaimed marshland, roughly halfway between Rome and Naples.

Romanzo Italiano - Lazio - Part 10 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Alessandro explains some things about the characters in his books and tells a story about when he won the Strega award. The Strega Award is the most important Italian literary award. It gets its name from one of its creators, the owner of the company producing Strega, a brand of an amaro (after-dinner, digestive bitters).

La super storia - Via Pasolini - Part 11 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Advanced Advanced

Italy

Pasolini explains the difficulty of framing a city through the lens, only for it to be ruined by modern buildings that seem to have nothing to do with the form of the city itself. He wants anonymous, simple poetry to be preserved just like the works of Dante and Petrarca.

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