Nine out of ten French people love chocolate. Chocolatiers like to think that the tenth person must simply be lying. In the city of Lyon, France’s chocolate and gastronomy capital, techniques are a well-kept secret. Philippe Bernachon shows us part of the process of making chocolate from cocoa beans. At the Voisin chocolate factory, we learn about how to make old-fashioned pralines from huge slabs of chocolate. Meanwhile, Willy Ferrier tells us about his unique work as a chocolate sculptor.
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Views: Europe’s Greatest Driving Roads (4K Video)
Curves celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Reason enough for a best of coolest roads we portrayed during the last decade!
Walks: ‘Piazza Navona’ In Rome, Italy (4K UHD Video)
A walking in a Sunday morning in 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗲 , Italy, in and around 𝗣𝗶𝗮𝘇𝘇𝗮 𝗡𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗻𝗮. Very quiet weekend day, good weather in this day of winter.
Piazza Navona is a public open space in Rome, Italy. It is built on the site of the Stadium of Domitian, built in the 1st century AD, and follows the form of the open space of the stadium. The ancient Romans went there to watch the agones, and hence it was known as “Circus Agonalis”.
Video timeline: 0:00 – [Brief Intro] 2:05 – [Piazza Navona] 4:36 – [Sant’Agnese in Agone Church *tour inside* – (info on subtitles)] 6:50 – [Piazza Navona] 8:00 – [*Fontain of Moro* – 1654 – (info on subtitles)] 9:32 – [Via della Cuccagna] 10:20 – [Piazza dei Massimi] 11:40 – [Piazza S.Andrea della Valle] 12:36 – [Corso VIttorio Emanuele II] 14:00 – [Piazza di S.Pantaleo] 14:30 – [Via della Cuccagna] 15:30 – [Via di Pasquino] 16:25 – [Via di S.Maria dell’Anima] 19:20 – [Vicolo della Pace] 22:43 – [Piazza del Fico] 23:10 – [Vicolo del Fico] 24:13 – [Via di Monte Giordano] 26:10 – [Via del Corallo] 27:31 – [Via del Governo Vecchio] 29:18 – [Via di Parione] 31:33 – [Via del Teatro Pace] 32:55 – [Vicolo dei Granari] 34:00 – [Via di S.Maria dell’Anima] 35:00 – [Piazza di Pasquino] 36:00 – [Via del Governo Vecchio] 37:30 – [Vicolo Savelli] 38:48 – [Corso Vittorio Emanuele II] 40:10 – [Via dei Leutari] 41:45 – [The *Talking Statue* of Pasquino – (info on subtitles) – it reads **This city, now old, by everyone is cheated, everyone says “great beauty”, but noone caresses you, it’s because they forgot, that in the past you founded them, My Rome, let them see, if you get enraged what can happen!*] 43:00 – [Piazza Navona]
Views: ‘Venice Carnival 2021’ Mask Revelers (Video)
Protective face masks were swapped for traditional ones in a muted start to the Venice Carnival on St. Mark’s Square on Sunday.
The Carnival of Venice (Italian: Carnevale di Venezia) is an annual festival held in Venice, Italy. The carnival ends with the Christian celebration of Lent, forty days before Easter, on Shrove Tuesday (Martedì Grasso or Mardi Gras), the day before Ash Wednesday. The festival is world-famous for its elaborate masks.
Aerial Views: Coastlines & Countryside Of France
France, in Western Europe, encompasses medieval cities, alpine villages and Mediterranean beaches. Paris, its capital, is famed for its fashion houses, classical art museums including the Louvre and monuments like the Eiffel Tower. The country is also renowned for its wines and sophisticated cuisine. Lascaux’s ancient cave drawings, Lyon’s Roman theater and the vast Palace of Versailles attest to its rich history.
Walking Tours: Campo De’ Fiori In Rome (4K Video)
A Sunday walk during lunchtime in beautiful 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗼 𝗱𝗲’ 𝗙𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗶 , 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗲, Italy.
Campo de’ Fiori is a rectangular square south of Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy, at the border between rione Parione and rione Regola. It is diagonally southeast of the Palazzo della Cancelleria and one block northeast of the Palazzo Farnese. Campo de’ Fiori, translated literally from Italian, means “field of flowers”.
Palazzo Views: ‘Grand Canal’, Venice, Italy (Video)
In sestiere Cannaregio, on the banks of the Canal Grande and two steps from Santa Lucia train station, majestic 430-sqm luxury apartment on the first floor of a restored historic palazzo. The property, finely restored and maintained, currently hosts three bedrooms (one of which overlooking the Canal Grande), three bathrooms and a beautiful hall decorated with plaster and frescoes. The palazzo is located a few steps from the Ponte degli Scalzi and enjoys quick access to the most renowned monuments of Venice.
Aerial Travel: ’55 Capital Cities Of The World’ (4K)
An aerial view of 55 capital cities of the world.
Europe: An Economic History Of Iceland (Video)
Iceland’s Economy had a banking debt ten times larger than its GDP. Iceland was that one Economy which went left when everybody else went right. Whilst most thought the banks were too big to fail, Iceland thought they were too big to save. It let its largest banks go bankrupt and threw dozens of bankers in jail. And yet despite its unusual approach, its Economy recovered. Going on to enjoy a decade of unbroken economic growth and high standard of living. But why did an island just outside the arctic circle have a financial crisis? What strategies did it deploy to rack up such monumental debts? How did it recover? And does its future rely on impressive tourist growth and crypto currencies?
Walks: ‘Tübingen’ In Southwest Germany
Tübingen is a city in southwest Germany and home to one of Europe’s oldest universities. In the old town, Stiftskirche St. Georg is a late-Gothic church with stained-glass windows and city views from its tower. The ornately painted 15th-century City Hall is topped with a functioning astronomical clock. Hilltop Hohentübingen Castle is home to the Museum of Ancient Cultures, with Greek, Roman and Egyptian artifacts.
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