Anna and Marika talk about winning the lottery. They have fun imagining all the things they would want to do if they won.

Adriano visits Palermo's Monte Pellegrino, taking in the cypress and wild fennel perfumed air and enjoying the incredible panorama.

Marika gives us a helpful guide to describing your feelings in any given moment.

Giovanna, a resident of Campania, explains how tomato puree is made, and then preserved in glass jars.

The Aeolian Islands are a favorite destination for divers from all over the world because of the underwater grottoes and ancient shipwrecks.

Francesca has a relaxing day at the beach, buys some cheap earrings from a beach vendor, then tries the water.

Gualtiero Marchesi recalls the early years of his friendship with Aldo Calvi, when the would hunt and fish together along the Po.

Fellini tells how La Dolce Vita scenes were filmed both on the Via Veneto and on a set reconstructing the famous street in Cinecittà. The director also discusses his being a Capricorn.

Andromeda introduces us to her other cats: Bella, Briciola, and Fiocco. She also recounts an anecdote from a book of Tiziano Terzani, a noted journalist [interviews with Terzani featured in videos 2708, 3105, and 3106].

Marika and Anna conjugate the verb to be in the simple present, present perfect, and simple past.

Capocotta is the name of the Latium beach where Francesca is spending the last day of summer. This stretch of shore became a nature preserve in the '80s at the behest of President Sandro Pertini.

Anna and Marika give examples of the past tense of the verb to be.

Adriano and his girlfriend Vladi demonstrate Jive dancing, a dance that in Italy goes by the name "Boogie Woogie".

Rossellini's 1949 movie Stromboli put the Aeolian island on the cultural map forever.

Pre-war and wartime cooking, when fuel for cooking was in short supply, made raw recipes come to the fore.