Are you curious to hear about Carnival celebrations in Italy? Marika describes for us some of the traditions and curiosities.

Minivip, as usual, is at the psychologist's, where he recounts his strange dream about being shipwrecked on a desert island. While there, he meets a young woman who is very difficult to please, and who'd like to be rescued, but not by our Minivip...

Monica Bellucci is an Italian fashion model and movie actress who is now a naturalized French citizen. She talks about her career and about what contributed to her being so highly successful.

Palla teaches Pippo how to make little farts and explains that they can be smelled outside the aquarium. Chris gets blamed for them, but he's playing his video game and is oblivious to everything.

The Basilicata region of Italy has, until recently, been overshadowed by the more popular areas of the country, but now, more and more, its very special and unique characteristics have sparked the interest of all sorts of people, from tourists to filmmakers.

Minivip, while out for a walk, thinks he could be dead after being hit by a lightening bolt, but the passersby, rather than lending him a hand, injure him further by insisting on testing his abilities.

Sara reads in a newspaper that there is a ferocious killer fish that is wandering about the city, ready to eat little fish in fish tanks. The family becomes suspicious of Palla, the newly arrived fish, but fortunately the TV news says the story is false.

That's Italy allows us to discover different aspects of Italian style. This first episode features Basilicata, a region offering places of astonishing beauty that few know and few appreciate.

Pippo is listening to a bit of music on his shell headphones and is pretty much oblivious to what's going on around him. But Palla, who is still not used to the sounds of the house, gets alarmed by all the strange sounds he hears.

Serena is a university student from Maratea. She's just come back from an internship in Russia. She tells us about Russia, and also about her plans for New Year's Eve.

Minivip is on the train, when all of a sudden a woman enters his compartment and asks for help with her suitcase. It is clearly too heavy for our little minihero, and, as usual, his big brother comes and saves him from his misadventure.

For once, Minivip wants to be the hero, and his elder brother goes along with that, but something doesn't go right. Even his psychologist, in whom the minihero wishes to confide, completely ignores him.

This is the first episode of the televisions series PsicoVip, created by Bruno Bozzetto and produced by RaiFiction. The series has won the “Best TV Series for Young Adults”. The main characters are the brothers SuperVip and MiniVip. Having a superhero brother causes MiniVip to have an inferiority complex, and so he goes to Mr. Doc, a psychologist who is only interested in his fees.

After spending the morning sun bathing, a slight feeling of hunger sets in. There are a lot of choices: pizza, first and second courses. But, to stay on the light side, fruit salad with a bit of ice cream seems like the best choice.

Irene tells us about one of the most famous squares in the world: St. Mark's Square in Venice, with its splendid and architecturally important buildings.