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Meraviglie - EP. 5 - Part 10

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Una delle più suggestive leggende delle Dolomiti spiega perché queste montagne si tingono di rosa.

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Meraviglie - EP. 4 - Part 8

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Perché la Torre di Pisa pende? In che stile è il Duomo di Piazza dei Miracoli? E cosa c' era prima sotto la Torre? Dopo questo video conoscerai tutte le risposte.

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Meraviglie - EP. 2 - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

Dei e riti, popoli che si susseguono, tracce che restano. Com'è nata Akragas? E perchè poi è stata chiamata Agrigentum? Alberto Angela ce lo racconta in questa parte di questo viaggio.

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Da dove viene il nome camposanto? E perché la calotta emisferica del Battistero di Pisa ha due lati ricoperti di materiale diverso? Queste e altre affascinanti spiegazioni sono raccontate da Alberto Angela.

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Meraviglie - EP. 3 - Part 12

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

We look at Leonardo's Last Supper from close up — the details, the symbolism — but also from the refectory floor, seeing how Leonardo's genius made the fresco part of the room itself.

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Caption 76 [it]: Perché?
Caption 76 [en]: Why?

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Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 13

Difficulty: 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 48 [it]: perché abituato a attività esterne,
Caption 48 [en]: because he's accustomed to outdoor activities,

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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 37 [it]: perché vedete queste colonne si sono conservate perfettamente
Caption 37 [en]: because as you see, these columns have been perfectly preserved,

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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 29 [it]: perché tutti venissero a respirare il luogo dove
Caption 29 [en]: so that anyone could come and breathe the air of the place where

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Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 9

Difficulty: 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 23 [it]: Criticato dai Greci, perché nei banchetti
Caption 23 [en]: Criticized by the Greeks, because in banquets

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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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Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 7

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

We're still in Tarquinia and we visit the tomb of Aninas. We gain some insight into the alphabet the Etruscans used, allowing us to recognize some names, but unfortunately, they didn't leave much in the way of writings to allow us to know much more.

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Caption 42 [it]: perché, vedete, questa tomba ha di straordinario
Caption 42 [en]: because, you see, this tomb has, extraordinarily,

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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 25 [it]: perché avevano la vita attiva, erano uomini d'azione
Caption 25 [en]: because they had active lives. They were men of action

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Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

The Matuna family tomb contains many plaster reproductions of everyday objects, adding to the story of how the Etruscans lived. We move on to Tarquinia, where the tombs were carved out of a sedimentary limestone called Macco, allowing the colorful wall paintings to be preserved.

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Caption 4 [it]: perché qui vediamo degli oggetti che avremmo visto nelle case.
Caption 4 [en]: because here, we see objects that we would have seen in houses.

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Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

One of the most famous tombs is that of the Matuna family. The reproductions and depictions of objects found there, ranging from everyday tools to ceremonial and funereal ones, allows us a glimpse of what life would have been like in this ancient civilization.

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Caption 13 [it]: perché hanno proprio... sembrano quasi dei letti
Caption 13 [en]: because they have actual... they almost look like beds

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Meraviglie - EP. 6 - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

Italy

There were different kinds of tombs built by the Etruscans. Alberto Angela explains how and why they were made the way they were. He also takes us into one of the most famous and beautiful Etruscan tombs.

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Caption 26 [it]: Già, perché, al contrario delle piramidi che sono costruite con dei blocchi,
Caption 26 [en]: Yes, because, contrary to the pyramids that were built with blocks,

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