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L'Italia che piace - Stile di vita - Part 8

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

We get a glimpse of the spaces where a show takes shape, from sewing the costumes, to creating the sets and backdrops. When a model of a set arrives, the job of the team is to translate it into reality, into something big.
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Caption 15 [it]: e la cosa, appunto, più interessante
Caption 15 [en]: and the most interesting thing, indeed,

L'Italia che piace - Stile di vita - Part 2

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Angelo Inglese talks about how the company got its start, back in the fifties. His widowed grandmother and a next-door neighbor began sewing. Now, the company strives to be an enhancement to the old city of Ginosa.
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Caption 32 [it]: Diventerà, appunto, il nostro quartier generale,
Caption 32 [en]: It would, in fact, become our headquarters

L'Italia che piace - Stile di vita - Part 1

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Italy is known for fashion, and that includes shirts. Angelo Inglese, a shirtmaker from Ginosa, in Apulia, talks about how his shirts stand out for being inspired by local traditions, notably embroidery and crocheting.
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Caption 29 [it]: Arte ereditata, appunto, dalla tradizione antica,
Caption 29 [en]: Art inherited, in point of fact, from old tradition,

L'Italia che piace - Territori - Part 1

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

The first place we visit is practically a theater on a mountain, designed and built to replicate places with religious significance in the Holy Land. The mountain, aptly named, is Sacro Monte (sacred or holy mountain) and is located in Piemonte, to the northwest of Milan.
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Caption 26 [it]: e che culminava poi, appunto,
Caption 26 [en]: and that subsequently culminated, indeed,

In giro per l'Italia - Roma Il Colosseo

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Fulvio tells us plenty of interesting things about the history of one of the symbols of Rome, the Colosseum. To begin with, it wasn't always called the "Colosseum."
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Caption 61 [it]: quegli spettacoli tra i gladiatori, appunto tra i centurioni romani, e i leoni
Caption 61 [en]: those events between the gladiators, precisely between the Roman centurions, and the lions,

In giro per l'Italia - Roma La bocca della verità

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Fulvio describes the monument we look at in this segment before telling what it is. The story has some pretty surprising aspects.
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Caption 13 [it]: e quella, appunto, è la chiesa,
Caption 13 [en]: and that, in fact, is the church,

In giro per l'Italia - Roma Il Campidoglio

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Take your time with this episode about Rome because it is chock full of information. Il Campidoglio, also called Monte Capitolino, is the smallest of the seven hills of Rome, but it's the most important because that's where the mayor's office is, as well. Where did the word "capitol" come from? Fulvio has the answer. He also talks about where the word "money" comes from. And you will recognize the name of the architect who designed the piazza and its surrounding buildings.
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Caption 66 [it]: la zecca è il luogo dove vengono appunto
Caption 66 [en]: the mint is the place where, just that, they're

In giro per l'Italia - Roma Piazza Navona

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Writer and scholar Fulvio Benelli shows us a part of Rome that tourists always flock to: Piazza Navona. But he tells us the fascinating story of how it came to be.
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Caption 28 [it]: da cui appunto Piazza Navona.
Caption 28 [en]: from which Piazza Navona is derived.

Space to ground - EP2 Energia dell'universo. Luce - Part 3

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Luisella Giulicchi, the system manager for the ESA Copernicus Sentinel six mission, explains what an exoplanet is. Two young researchers do a simple experiment to show us how infrared rays work.
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Caption 11 [it]: e che presenta, appunto, acqua nella sua atmosfera.
Caption 11 [en]: and which has, indeed, water in its atmosphere.

Space to ground - EP2 Energia dell'universo. Luce - Part 2

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Luisella Giulicchi, manager of the European Space Agency ESA, answers questions about light, infrared rays, and lightyears.
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Caption 16 [it]: e, appunto, viene usata per misurare le distanze tra stelle e pianeti
Caption 16 [en]: and, in fact, it is used to measure the distances between stars and planets

In giro per l'Italia - Venezia - Part 8

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

A short boat ride takes us from Venice to Murano, where they make some of the most beautiful glass in the world.
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Caption 29 [it]: che appunto producono e lavorano il vetro.
Caption 29 [en]: that, naturally, produce and work glass.

In giro per l'Italia - Venezia - Part 5

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Even if we have never been to Venice, we all know a gondola when we see one, but let's find out more about this elegant Venetian symbol.
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Caption 24 [it]: appunto, i quartieri che essendo sei si chiamano sestieri.
Caption 24 [en]: indeed, the quarters, as there are six of them, are called "sestieri."

In giro per l'Italia - Venezia - Part 2

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Marika shows us a famous bookshop in Venice. It's in a critical position with respect to the water level, so special precautions are taken to protect the books when there are high tides. Fascinating!
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Caption 10 [it]: La Libreria è posizionata, come Le dicevo, appunto, in un punto basso
Caption 10 [en]: The bookshop is located, as I was telling you, in fact, in a low-lying point

Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 13

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

If you have ever visited Italy, you have probably run across the term pinacoteca describing a picture gallery, and wondered where it came from. You will find out in this video about a room called the "tablinum" in the Assisi domus, discovered because they wanted to build an elevator!
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Caption 42 [it]: praticamente dei quadri, appunto,
Caption 42 [en]: basically, indeed, paintings —

Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 9

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

The Etruscans were influenced by other ethnic groups, particularly the Greeks. On display in the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, we find evidence of this in the terracotta objects and fine gold jewelry and precious objects dating from the period.
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Caption 33 [it]: da cui, appunto, ha preso il nome del, che l'ha ufficialmente, eh,
Caption 33 [en]: from whom, in fact, it took its name, who officially, eh,

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