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Itinerari Della Bellezza - Umbria - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Di questo meraviglioso posto oggi, purtroppo, resta poco, almeno dei monumenti. L'ultimo risveglio della natura si è manifestato nei terremoti che da agosto fino a fine ottobre hanno messo in ginocchio gran parte del centro Italia. Purtroppo il duomo di San Benedetto è andato distrutto. ecco alcune foto di cosa è rimasto.

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Itinerari Della Bellezza - Trentino Alto Adige - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Comincia un nuovo viaggio, affascinante e rilassante. Dopo tanto Sud Italia, ecco a voi il profondo Nord! Buona visione.

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L'Italia che piace - Stile di vita - Part 10

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The deepest part of the Mediterranean is located between Apulia and Greece. There, conditions are such that there is plenty of food for predators. With the "Researcher for a Day" program, the association gets precious help searching for cetaceans in these waters.

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Caption 11 [it]: Ecco perché in quest'area abbiamo tanti "top predator":
Caption 11 [en]: That is why we have so many "top predators" in this area:

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

Difficulty: 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 22 [it]: Ecco, un, una nazione
Caption 22 [en]: There, a, a nation

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

Difficulty: 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 11 [it]: da quando, ecco, ho preso in mano l'attività di famiglia
Caption 11 [en]: since, you see, I took the family business in hand

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L'Italia che piace - Territori - Part 7

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

People who want a spiritual but active way to see Italy often choose la via francigena (the road from France), the Italian pilgrimage route from France to Rome that corresponds to the perhaps more famous "Camino de Santiago" from Paris to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

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Caption 27 [it]: ecco, vengono avvolti di [da] un'atmosfera particolare,
Caption 27 [en]: you see, they are enveloped by a special atmosphere,

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L'Italia che piace - Territori - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

A quarryman has to have a passion for his work. Every block of marble is a challenge and has to be observed on all sides and many times to make sure it is good. But succeeding in cutting it and taking it out is an enormous satisfaction.

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Caption 17 [it]: e dopo dici: "Ecco, ora ho capito come va dato il taglio".
Caption 17 [en]: and afterward you say: "There, now I have figured out how the cut should be done."

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In giro per l'Italia - Roma Il Colosseo

Difficulty: 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 9 [it]: Ecco, dicevamo, questa è una delle vie
Caption 9 [en]: You see, as we were saying, this is one of the streets

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In giro per l'Italia - Roma Il Campidoglio

Difficulty: 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 13 [it]: signore e signori, ecco a voi il Campidoglio.
Caption 13 [en]: Ladies and gentlemen, here before you is the Campidoglio [Capitol].

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In giro per l'Italia - Roma Il Pantheon

Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Fulvio shows us one of the most enigmatic monuments of all Rome, the Pantheon. He gives us some history, some interesting facts, and a legend, as well.

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Caption 16 [it]: Signore e signori, ecco a voi il Pantheon.
Caption 16 [en]: Ladies and gentlemen, here it is, all yours, the Pantheon.

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Space to ground - EP3 5 4 3 2 1 lift off. Lanciatori - Part 2

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Observing what happens when the air comes out of a balloon will help us understand how the launcher of a spacecraft works. An electrical propulsion engineer from ESA explains about different kinds of propulsion used in space exploration.

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Caption 24 [it]: Ecco, il lanciatore funziona così.
Caption 24 [en]: That's it. The launcher works like that.

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In giro per l'Italia - Pentidattilo - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Rossella tells us how she came to be the solitary inhabitant of a beautiful, abandoned village in Calabria, called either Pentedattilo or Pentidattilo.

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Caption 4 [it]: Ecco, molto tempo fa ci è stato consigliato questo borgo fantasma calabrese [La storia di Pentedattilo (RC) è a dir poco affascinante! Un saluto dalla Calabria! A presto!]
Caption 4 [en]: Well, a long time ago this Calabrian ghost village was recommended to us, [The history of Pentedattilo (RC) is, to put it mildly, fascinating. Greetings from Calabria! See you soon!]

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In giro per l'Italia - Venezia - Part 6

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Everyone has heard of St. Mark's Square, but Marika gives us some interesting tidbits of information and then takes us to a see a very special staircase.

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Caption 18 [it]: Ecco la Torre dell'Orologio.
Caption 18 [en]: Here is the Clock Tower.

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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 41 [it]: Poco oltre, ecco un mosaico a tessere nere
Caption 41 [en]: A little further on, here is a mosaic with black tesserae,

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Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 8

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

We get a look at the tomb, in terracotta, of a noblewoman. The clay allows for detail, where tombs in Macco do not. We then go to Rome, to the most important Etruscan museum, where we see once again, what an important role the afterlife played in the lives (and deaths) of the Etruscans.

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Caption 31 [it]: ecco perché ha una fiaccola.
Caption 31 [en]: that's why she has a torch.

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