Italy's Cities 2000 - 2007

Season 1
Explore Italy's great cities with Rick Steves, best-selling travel author and host of public television's Rick Steves' Europe and public radio's Travel with Rick Steves. See the best of Italy's great cities: serene and decadent Venice, fashionable Milan, Renaissance Florence, classic Rome and extreme Naples. Along the way, we side-trip to Vicenza, Verona, Ravenna, Lake Cuomo and Pompeii.
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  1. S1 E1 - Venice: Serene, Decadent and Still Kicking
    December 31, 2002
    26min
    13+
    Sorting through the monuments of magical Venice, we trace its decline from Europe's most powerful city to its most hedonistic. We cruise its main street - the Grand Canal - then get lost in its back lanes. We drink-in the art of Titian, Bellini, Donatello, and the Doge's Palace.
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  2. S1 E2 - Venice Side-Trips: The Best of Veneto
    December 31, 2002
    26min
    13+
    Pulling on hip boots, we settle into the muck of Venice, then take a speedboat tour of the lagoon. On the mainland, we head for Padova to tour a once-illegal anatomy theater and track the restoration of Giotto's Scrovegni Chapel. In Vicenza, we admire elegant Palladian-style streets and villas.
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  3. S1 E3 - Milan and Lake Como
    November 10, 2006
    25min
    13+
    No trip to Italy is complete without Milan and Lake Como. In Milan we'll take a peek at Italy's highest fashion, fanciest delis, grandest cemetery and greatest opera house...not to mention Leonardo's Last Supper. Then we'll cruise along Lake Como, settling down in the lakeside village of Varenna...classic honeymoon country, where Italy meets the Alps.
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  4. S1 E4 - Florence: City of Art
    December 31, 2002
    26min
    13+
    We look into the eyes of Michelangelo's David and Botticelli's Venus, learn tricks for touring the Uffizi art gallery, and climb the amazing cathedral dome that kicked off the Renaissance. Then we immerse ourselves in the Florentine good life: visiting a fragrant 400-year-old perfumery, sipping Campari on a rooftop, chasing the sunset on a Vespa, and sleeping serenely in a converted monastery.
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  5. S1 E5 - Caesar's Rome
    December 31, 2000
    26min
    13+
    Rome welcomes the new millennium spiffed up as never before. We tour Rome's ancient sights from the Forum and Colosseum to the glorious Pantheon. Then, after hiking the Appian Way and exploring the catacombs, we track down the best gelato in Rome.
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  6. S1 E6 - Rome: Baroque, After Dark
    December 31, 2000
    26min
    13+
    After a pilgrimage to Michelangelo's Pieta, we climb to the top of St. Peter's Basilica. We seek out tucked-away Renaissance paintings and a cleverly-painted false dome. At the Borghese Gallery, it's exquisite sculptures by the master of marble, Bernini. Then we join the locals on an after-dark stroll, lacing together Rome's Baroque and bubbly nightspots.
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  7. S1 E7 - Naples and Pompeii
    October 27, 2006
    25min
    13+
    Naples is Italy in the extreme. We'll prowl backstreet fish markets, dodge fast-moving Vespas, and dine on pizza where it was invented. We'll climb to the top of nearby Mount Vesuvius, then wander through the amazing ruins of Pompeii, the Roman town it destroyed.
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Violencesubstance usealcohol usesmokingfoul languagesexual content
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Directors
Simon Griffith
Producers
Rick Steves
Cast
Rick StevesAndreas ClemensAlfio Di Mauro
Studio
Rick Steves
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