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Walks: Levanzo Island, Sicily, Italy (4K Video)
Levanzo is the smallest of the three main Aegadian Islands in the Mediterranean Sea west of Sicily, Italy. It forms a part of the municipality of Favignana in the Province of Trapani.
Video timeline: 00:00 Drone intro 00:11 The walk begins at the Port. 03:40 Bar restaurant with port and beach view 03:55 Via Calvario 04:46 Via Salita Scaletta 06:26 Church of Maria SS. di Trapani 07:06 Top of the town 09:53 Cala Dogana 10:12 Street signal to “Faraglione” 20:39 Il Faraglione 25:28 Cala Faraglione (beach Faraglione) 37:27 Back to Levanzo town
Views: German Actress Hikes Alps With A Donkey
Hiking over the Alps with a donkey had been Lotta Lubkoll’s childhood dream. Following a tragic loss, she decided to make it come true: Together with Jonny the donkey, she hiked over the alps from Munich, Germany to Italy’s Adriatic Coast. The trek – around 600 kilometers – lasted 80 days, and turned the two travelling companions into the best of friends. That was just the beginning: In December of 2020 they set off again, to Portugal. Find out why a donkey is the ideal travel partner!
Village Walks: Ostuni – Southeastern Italy (4K)
Ostuni is a city in Italy’s Apulia region that’s known for its whitewashed old town. Ostuni Cathedral combines Gothic, Romanesque and Byzantine elements, while the arched Porta San Demetrio is one of 2 remaining medieval gates. The Civic Museum and Archaeological Park houses Ostuni 1, the skeleton of a woman from Paleolithic times. Northwest of town is the Santuario di Sant’Oronzo complex, with a triumphal arch.
Views: Colosseum In Rome Opens Up Substructure
Visitors will be able to walk in the footsteps of Roman Gladiators in the same areas where they prepared to fight to the death. The Colosseum is opening up its deepest depths to the public. Chris Livesay reports.
The Colosseum is an oval amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, just east of the Roman Forum. It is the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is still the largest standing amphitheatre in the world today, despite its age.
Tours: Desenzano Del Gardo, Italy (4K Video)
Desenzano del Garda is a resort town on the southern shore of Lake Garda, in northern Italy. The remains of the Roman Villa include elaborate mosaic floors. The Antiquarium is home to artifacts excavated at the villa, such as kitchenware and lamps. In a former convent, the Rambotti Archaeological Museum displays items from the Paleolithic to the Bronze Age, including a plow. Desenzano Castle has sweeping lake views.
Walks: Cannaregio Area Of Venice, Italy (4K Video)
Cannaregio is one of six neighbourhoods or Sestrieri that make up Venice, a great place to explore if you want to appreciate the true local life of the city. It is the second largest sestiere by land area and the largest by population.
Video timeline: 00:00 Santa Lucia Train Station 01:10 Grand Canal and Church of San Simeon Piccolo 02:47 Ponte degli Scalzi 03:20 Rio Terà Lista di Spagna 04:50 Into a 05:30 Trash collectors on Grand Canal 08:10 Campo San Geremia 08:24 Church San Geremia and Lucia (Close) 09:55 Salizada S. Geremia 10:22 Ponte delle Guglie 12:50 Fondamenta Cannaregio 19:37 Ponte dei Tre Archi 22:47 Calle Cannaregio 25:18 Calle del Forner 25:50 Fondamenta delle Case Nuove 29:20 Fondamenta Carlo Coletti 36:45 Bridge to Venetian Ghetto 37:57 Campo de Ghetto Nuovo 38:46 The Jewish Museum of Venice 39:57 On memorial 44:00 Bridge over “Rio del Ghetto” 47:57 children’s skateboards in front of the nursery school
Aerial City Views: Bari – Southern Italy (4K)
Bari is a port city on the Adriatic Sea, and the capital of southern Italy’s Puglia region. Its mazelike old town, Barivecchia, occupies a headland between 2 harbors. Surrounded by narrow streets, the 11th-century Basilica di San Nicola, a key pilgrimage site, holds some of St. Nicholas’ remains. To the south, the Murat quarter has stately 19th-century architecture, a promenade and pedestrianized shopping areas.
Travel Tour: Florence – Tuscany, Italy (4K Video)
Florence, capital of Italy’s Tuscany region, is home to many masterpieces of Renaissance art and architecture. One of its most iconic sights is the Duomo, a cathedral with a terracotta-tiled dome engineered by Brunelleschi and a bell tower by Giotto. The Galleria dell’Accademia displays Michelangelo’s “David” sculpture. The Uffizi Gallery exhibits Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” and da Vinci’s “Annunciation.”
Views: Classic Wooden Motor Boats At Villa d’Este, Lake Como, Italy
The Grand Hotel Villa d’Este hosted what was arguably the world’s most elegant gathering of classic wooden boats and yachts. And what could say ‘La Dolce Vita’ better than an armada of Rivas dancing on the waves of Lake Como?
Members of the rather secretive Associazione Scafi Epoca – an association and historical register of vintage and classic hulls – watered their classic wooden boats on Lake Como for the Villa d’Este Vintage Yachting.
Sipping on an Aperol on the Grand Hotel’s waterfront terrasse buzzing with waiters in splendid white uniforms, the sonorous chugging of the wooden boats filling the air, one immediately felt thrown back to the 1950s and 1960s, when the international hautevolee spent their summers yachting and water-skiing on the lakes of Northern Italy. Had H.S.H. Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace of Monaco or Count Giovanni Agusta moored their Aquarama on the Villa’s floating pool on the lake, it wouldn’t have come as a surprise.
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