Difficulty: Advanced
Italy Neapolitan
Mario Talarico is a Neapolitan master umbrella maker. He and his finely crafted products have been featured in newspapers around the world.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
UNESCO counts the Aeolian Islands, off of Sicily's coast, among its World Heritage sites. The seven islands that make up the archipelago are: Vulcano, Stromboli, Alicudi, Filicudi, Panarea, Lipari and Salina.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Gualtiero Marchesi recalls his childhood, living along the banks of the River Po. His memories are as diverse as milking cows and seeing German bombers taking out bridges.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Crowds of Romans gather to watch the filming of Anita Ekberg in the Trevi Fountain. Federico Fellini tells of his inspirations for the film La Dolce Vita.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The Aeolian Islands are a favorite destination for divers from all over the world because of the underwater grottoes and ancient shipwrecks.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Gualtiero Marchesi recalls the early years of his friendship with Aldo Calvi, when the would hunt and fish together along the Po.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Fellini tells how La Dolce Vita scenes were filmed both on the Via Veneto and on a set reconstructing the famous street in Cinecittà. The director also discusses his being a Capricorn.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Rossellini's 1949 movie Stromboli put the Aeolian island on the cultural map forever.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Pre-war and wartime cooking, when fuel for cooking was in short supply, made raw recipes come to the fore.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Federico Fellini discusses Marcello Mastroianni's role as "everyman" in La Dolce Vita. He encourages viewers to see Mastroianni's "passions, hopes, fears and cowardice, and anguish and sleaziness" as similar to their own.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The "Sciara del Fuoco" is a stream of red-hot lava that travels from Stromboli's volcanic summit to the sea. Seeing it is an unforgettable experience.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Fellini is at Cannes for the festival and screening of La Dolce Vita. He tells of his ironic encounters with unusual characters, who complain about the oddity of Fellini's movie characters.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
A guided exploration of seabed flora and fauna that live, against all odds, in a volcanic environment.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
At the Villa Borghese there's lots you can do. There is something for everyone. Rent a bike, rickshaw or scooter, go rowing, take in some theater, or just relax!
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Water, earth, fish, animals, rice: these were the fundamental elements of Italian cuisine in the pre-war and war years, elements that profoundly influenced the culinary creations of one of the most famous chefs in Italy, Gualtiero Marchesi.
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