Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
This beautiful church is worth a stop on the way from Pisa to the seaside. Arianna shares her discovery of it. The ceramic bowls that decorate the church are technically known as “bacini ceramici” in Italian, which could be translated as “ceramic basins.” Art historians who write in English, however, also use the term “bacini” for these tin-glazed works.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Arianna shows us around the Cathedral Square, where the bell tower, better known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa, is located.
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.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Gianni explores the interior of the abandoned villa, imagining what it might have been like before.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Gianni takes us up to an abandoned villa, and reflects on the tremendous challenges the builder faced.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The Region of the Marches, on the Adriatic coast of Italy, is lesser known than other regions, but there is lots to see here, with its long coastline and jewel-like cities.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Arianna shows us the outside market near San Lorenzo, and we discover where the train station got its long name Santa Maria Novella. Arianna also gives us some important information about how to get to and from the airports of Pisa and Florence.
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.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Arianna is still a bit hungry, so she looks around for something else to eat. After lunch, she takes us downstairs to the actual market.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Arianna takes us around Florence. In this part, we walk from the main train station to the famous San Lorenzo market, where it's time to find some lunch.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The narrator goes over the vanishingly small number of expressions coined during Mussolini's time that are still in use today. The song that gives the series its name is provided in full.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
After the war came TV. It changed everything, and provided a new way to unify the Italian language and teach people reading and writing.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The segment looks at the Royal Academy of Italy's dictionary of Italian, which was filled with quotes from Mussolini. By the end of World War II, the dictionary had gotten to the letter “C.”
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.
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.
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