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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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Itinerari Della Bellezza - Abruzzo - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The segment highlights two medieval churches near the ancient site of Alba Fucens. Both churches display ornamental facings made from pieces of colored marble that are intricately pieced together, what is known as Cosmatesque work.

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Caption 31 [it]: L'interno è composto longitudinalmente dall'abbinamento di due quadrati,
Caption 31 [en]: The interior is longitudinally composed by the pairing of two square spaces,

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