Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The last stop on the trip to Castellammare di Stabia is the seafront, called il lungomare in Italian. There's a great panorama, a lovely sea breeze, and it's a great place to just walk around. Marika mentions the famous natural spring water of Castellammare, both for thermal baths and for drinking.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Fulvio shows tells us the story of a door, a very famous door, called the Alchemist's Door, also called the Magic Door, or the Door to Heaven, a monument built by Massimiliano Savelli Palombara, Marquis of Pietraforte on the grounds of his villa in Rome.
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."
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.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
To take a break from the hustle and bustle of Rome, there is a place waiting for you, just 40 minutes away, where horses and cows graze in the wild, and where there is plenty of interesting flora and fauna to observe: The Sorbo Valley.
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: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Arianna, born and raised in Tuscany, will make panzanella, one of her favorite dishes. The main ingredient is quite humble: stale bread!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Arianna prepares the ingredients for the panzanella and stresses that this recipe is easily adaptable to personal tastes. You can't really go wrong. It's also a great recipe for anyone to make while vacationing in Italy, since it's so simple.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Arianna finally finishes making panzanella [Tuscan bread salad], which she then enjoys eating while sitting outside under the Tuscan sun.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Antonio Cannavacciuolo shows us how to make a very elegant pasta dish with zucchini and fish. The cooking video is an ad for Voiello pasta, in this case mezze maniche which means "short sleeves."
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Antonino is in the kitchen with Michele from Eboli preparing a pasta dish with provola, eggplant and red mullet.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Today Antonino cooks special, grooved spaghetti, with garlic, oil and hot peppers. It's a classic pasta recipe, but our chef adds some extra ingredients to give it a different twist.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Antonino shares a new and easy recipe with grape or cherry tomatoes, buffalo stracciatella, and shrimp. But what makes the dish special is the special pasta: Penne with ridges both inside and out.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Antonino has a visitor from Sorrento on the Amalfi Coast, who brings in some of the world-famous Sorrento lemons. They prepare whole-wheat spaghetti with a simple sauce featuring lemon rind and bottarga (salted fish roe).
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Lucano
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.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
This crime story is set in the city of Matera in the Basilicata region, where Immacolata (Imma) Tataranni is the deputy prosecutor. She's on vacation at the beach when she finds something odd in the water.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Imma tells her husband about the finger she saw, but he seems skeptical. She is none too happy about her daughter's bathing suit, and also gives the barman a hard time.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Imma goes back to the office, stopping to chat with the cleaning lady as she makes her way upstairs. She meets the new chief prosecutor.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Calogiuri and Imma go to the site, where they are making a movie, to see if there is anything to be learned. Calogiuri gets noticed by the director because of his good looks. Could he make it as actor?
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
We get a glimpse of Imma as a parent. She is not so convinced about the value of cellphones. And she doesn't get along so well with her mother-in-law, either.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Calogiuri goes to talk to Imma at the beach. His presence doesn't go unnoticed to the young girls. Imma goes to see the new chief prosecutor.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Imma and Calogiuri go to the water park where they talk to the coroner. Calogiuri proves to be pretty smart and earns some praise from Imma.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Imma and Calogiuri go to see a woman who had her finger cut off. Calogiuri offers to take Imma back to Metaponto.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Imma is finally home, ready to have something to eat and discusses this on the phone with her husband. But then he urges her to turn on the local news station, quick.
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