Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
The tour of the Abruzzo Region concludes with sights near l'Aquila, the region's capital.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Welcome to breathtakingly beautiful Basilicata with its mountains and sea, light and silence.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
This segment features Melfi, a city at the base of Mount Vulture, where Frederick the Second of Swabia spent a number of years.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
The Archeological Park of Venosa is the highlight of this segment. We see the building projects of Robert Guiscard, the Norman conqueror of southern Italy and Sicily.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
The segment features Acerenza and its 11th century cathedral, which was built over pagan and Early Christian constructions.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
The segment concentrates on the environs of Matera, its rugged beauty, and the sacred art and architecture that makes use of natural grottoes.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Pythagoras, after leaving Croton, brought his school of philosophy to Metapontum. This key city of Magna Graecia [Greater Greece] brings the series on Basilicata to a close.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Terre d'acqua means water-lands. We are talking about the once marshy area which has now become the fertile Po valley. Gualtiero Marchesi is considered to be the founder of the new Italian cuisine, and is perhaps the best known Italian chef in the world. He begins telling us his story.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
World famous chef, Gualtiero Marchesi talks about his career, his search for a total cuisine, an authentic cuisine.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Our famous chef talks about the town where he spent much of his childhood, San Zenone al Po, where two rivers meet, and where flooding has always been part of life.
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:
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:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Pre-war and wartime cooking, when fuel for cooking was in short supply, made raw recipes come to the fore.
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.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The video weaves together Marchesi recounting a story about his first love when he was twelve, and a critic discussing Artusi and Marchesi's debt to popular cuisine.
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