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L'Italia che piace - Stile di vita - Part 7

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Tortona is an area of Milan, where steel mills stood previously. The huge structure turned out to be perfect for housing, once renovated, the Ansaldo workshop for the sets of Teatro alla Scala. The area has become very trendy and popular, especially during the Milan Fashion Week.

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Caption 18 [it]: in questo spazio enorme, ventimila metri quadrati,
Caption 18 [en]: in this enormous space, twenty thousand square metres.

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In giro per l'Italia - Castellammare di Stabia, Villa San Marco

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Italy

The Villa San Marco is an amazingly well-preserved luxury villa from the Augustan period, with a wonderful panoramic view of Vesuvius and the gulf of Naples. Marika shows us around the four nuclei of the villa.

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Caption 19 [it]: Villa San Marco misura undicimila metri quadrati
Caption 19 [en]: Villa San Marco measures eleven thousand square meters

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Meraviglie - S2 EP 2 - Part 12

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Alberto Angela continues showing us some of the details of the decorations within the San Carlo Theater. He recounts a special coffee beverage invented there, and an anecdote about the composer Gioacchino Rossini who was the musical director there for a time.

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Caption 33 [it]: Pensate, è una tela di circa cinquecento metri quadrati,
Caption 33 [en]: Just think. It's a canvas of about five hundred square meters,

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Meraviglie - S2EP1 - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Alberto Angela tells us how these natural wonders were discovered by a group of young cave explorers from the nearby city of Ancona.

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Caption 47 [it]: trovando un ambiente di pochi metri quadrati, sembrava
Caption 47 [en]: finding a space of a few square meters, it seemed like

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Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 12

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Parking is a problem in medieval hilltop towns and cities (especially those attractive to tourists), so one solution is to build an elevator to get from parking further down the hill, up to the center of town. But, you never know what you are going to find when excavating. In Assisi, they certainly hit the jackpot, right in the center of town: A roman domus.

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Caption 27 [it]: Guardate, era una casa enorme di quattrocento metri quadrati nel, all'incirca
Caption 27 [en]: Look, it was a huge house of, of approximately four hundred square meters

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Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 11

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

We're in Assisi, where, during some excavations, a domus was discovered. It's clear it belonged to a wealthy family because of the richness of the wall and floor decorations, and might even have been the home of the poet Propertius.

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Caption 48 [it]: Praticamente è una parete di cinque metri quadrati,
Caption 48 [en]: Basically, it's a five square meter wall,

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Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 6

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

This magnificent, colorful tomb, dating to twenty-five hundred years ago, depicts a banquet in honor of the deceased, who is clearly a young man. It's a virtual time capsule.

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Caption 8 [it]: Ci sono dei quadrati rossi, verdi, azzurri, bianchi
Caption 8 [en]: There are red, green, blue, and white squares,

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Meraviglie - EP. 5 - Part 14

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

We visit the interior of Villa Coldogno and see to what extent Andrea Palladio was ahead of his time as an architect, and how he was able to combine functionality and elegance.

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Caption 3 [it]: Noi siamo nel grande salone, copre duecentocinquanta metri quadrati
Caption 3 [en]: We are in the large hall; it measures two hundred and fifty square meters

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Meraviglie - EP. 5 - Part 12

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Amazing aerial views of Venice and the Venetian Lagoon provide an introduction to this episode on the Veneto Region. Andrea Palladio, one of the world's greatest architects, was from Vicenza and some of his most famous villas are highlighted in this segment.

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Caption 2 [it]: circa cinquecentocinquanta chilometri quadrati di estensione,
Caption 2 [en]: about five hundred and fifty square kilometers in size,

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Meraviglie - EP. 5 - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The Grinzane Castle houses a Museum of Peasant Civilization. Alberto Angela shows us a huge wine press and explains how it worked.

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Caption 40 [it]: Per esempio, non parlavano di ettari o chilometri quadrati,
Caption 40 [en]: For example, they didn't talk about hectares or square kilometers,

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Meraviglie - EP. 1 - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Alberto Angela, well-known presenter of historical TV documentaries, takes us on a journey to discover some of the "wonders" — both man-made and natural — of this "treasure peninsula" called Italy. The journey begins at the Royal Palace in Caserta.

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Caption 43 [it]: Copre più di sessantunomila metri quadrati
Caption 43 [en]: It covers over sixty-one thousand square meters

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L'Italia a tavola - Interrogazione sulla Liguria

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Because Anna knows the subject backwards and forwards, she volunteers to take the teacher's quiz on Liguria, but that doesn't help much with her grade.

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Caption 25 [it]: Cinquemilaquattrocento chilometri quadrati, è
Caption 25 [en]: Fifty-four hundred square kilometers, it is

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L'Italia a tavola - Interrogazione sul Friuli Venezia Giulia

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Let's see if Anna has studied one of the northernmost regions of Italy. It's a border region and as such, has some peculiarities.

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Caption 17 [it]: Quasi ottomila chilometri quadrati.
Caption 17 [en]: Almost eight thousand square kilometers.

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L'Italia a tavola - Interrogazione sulla Calabria

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

It's time to talk about Calabria, a southern region with both sea and mountains. Let's hope Anna did some studying.

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Caption 18 [it]: Circa quindicimila chilometri quadrati.
Caption 18 [en]: About fifteen thousand square kilometers.

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L'Italia a tavola - Interrogazione sulla Sicilia

Difficulty: Beginner

Italy

Anna gets grilled on Sicily by Marika. Oral quizzes are very frequently used in Italian schools. Grading is done on a scale from 1-10 for primary and secondary schools, and from 1-30 at the university level.

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Caption 18 [it]: Quasi ventiseimila chilometri quadrati.
Caption 18 [en]: Nearly twenty-six thousand square kilometers.

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