Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
This time the Magic Box spills out some bowling pins and a ball. Each character has a different way of approaching the goal of making the pins fall. Although bowling exists in Italy, the traditional Italian game is bocce, hence the name they give to the ball.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
Mirò is taking care of his vegetable garden, but there is too much sun. What to do? Let's see what he gets when he asks Magic Box for help. This time Civ plays a major role in the success of the day.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy Lucano
First, we meet a young couple: Christian and Michela. They live in Tuscany and are engaged to be married. Both are from Basilicata, where they have come on holiday. Next, we meet three friends. They're all happy to live in the sea-side town of Maratea.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
A live performance by Gianna Nannini singing the compelling hit, “Meravigliosa Creatura.”
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy Tuscan
Gianni is doing some yard work, and shares his thoughts about how plants go wild, or take over when they're not kept in check.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
Gianni takes a cigarette break from doing some yard work, and tells us something about himself. Like many other European smokers, he rolls his own cigarettes to save money.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
Gigi Proietti, a Rome actor who is widely known in Italy for his TV work, is in this advertisement for Kimbo Coffee.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
The dramatic song "Vado Avanti" [I go on] by Gioia Marconi describes a girl who's deluded by love and who doesn't see any future. Her hopelessness is overcome, though, by the will to go on. Video provided by PA 74 Music.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
"È l'amore che conta" [It's Love that Counts] is Giorgia's second single. Venice is the backdrop for the video.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy North Italy
Giuliano talks about why this year he chose to go to a lake for his vacation.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
Arianna explains, in simple Italian, and step by step, her own personal recipe for a pasta dish: Farfalle Primavera. Farfalle is a type of pasta shaped like a farfalla (butterfly). Primavera is the season between winter and summer.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
Arianna shows us the outside market near San Lorenzo, and we discover where the train station got its long name Santa Maria Novella. Arianna also gives us some important information about how to get to and from the airports of Pisa and Florence.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
The best way to get around Lucca is by bike. Arianna rents one and enjoys riding along the amazing walls of the city, still intact after centuries.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
Arianna and Simone show us the historic center of this city on Sicily's west coast. Points of interest include its Casbah, where ceramic tile artworks tell of the city's Arab history, an unusual central-plan church; and the Satyr Museum.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
Arianna and Simone take us through the narrow lanes of Mazara to the little theater, built from leftover materials from ships, and on to the Casbah, full of ceramic artwork.
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