Ulisse - Il piacere della scoperta - Season 15
Season 15
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DatesApr 12, 2014 - Nov 15, 2014
Episodes
Season 15Episode 1120 min
Roma, quarto giorno. Le meraviglie sconosciute
In this episode of "Ulisse" we will talk about what the Hill is at the center of the news today: the Quirinale: what is its history? Which kings lived there? How does the President of the Republic live? How many people work there? It will be a journey behind the scenes into the heart of our institutions and the history of the Palace.
Apr 12, 2014
Season 15Episode 2120 min
Carlo Magno. Le battaglie e gli amori
Invisible but very powerful, microorganisms have always been our life companions. In this episode Alberto Angela leads us to the discovery of infinitely small creatures, showing us how our life, but also sometimes our death, depends on them. Ulisses journey begins in Benin, Alberto Angela introduces us to a very poor country which, like many other places on the planet, represents the "front line" of the fight against microbes and viruses: the place where the battle rages hardest, even if the war affects all humanity.
Apr 19, 2014
Season 15Episode 3120 min
I regni del freddo
Paris, its secrets and its wonders. The Bridges of Paris and the Seine have been declared a world heritage site by UNESCO. Alberto Angela, aboard a vintage boat, travels along the Seine, using the river as a journey through time. He explores Paris in various stages: from the top of the Arc de Triomphe, to the Eiffel Tower, to the towers of the spectacular Nôtre Dame Cathedral. The appointment with the Eiffel Tower is unmissable, as told by Alberto Angela in all its details, and the surprising transformations of Paris at the end of the nineteenth century: from the birth of the department stores to the many attractions of Montmartre, to the cafés of the Latin Quarter. And then the changes that occurred in the twentieth century: from Beaubourg to Défense.
Apr 26, 2014
Season 15Episode 4120 min
Come vivere più a lungo
Alberto Angela talks about what has been defined as the "Italian Normandy"; the arrival of allied troops on the beaches of Anzio, near Rome. On January 22, 1944, when 40,000 men landed on the coast of Lazio, a few hours' drive from Rome, the German army was taken by surprise. The road to Rome seems open. But the man in command of the army, General John Porter Lucas, is instead convinced that he is facing a crushing defeat. The overall objective is the city of Rome, the main prize of the Italian Campaign. Would Rome become the first European capital liberated from Nazism? How long would it have taken to break the resistance of the German Army? And what price would the population have paid?
May 3, 2014
Season 15Episode 5120 min
Augusto. Come nasce un impero
Alberto Angela then takes a journey to the warm and sunny lands of Andalusia, crossing the cities of the region such as Seville, Cordoba, Granada and Ronda, among the colors and beauties of Moorish architecture, recounting an era of peaceful coexistence between peoples with customs, different customs and even religions which in today's world seem to have no equal. As is known, in fact, Andalusia is the Spanish region that has been an Arab possession for the longest time and the mix between that people and the native people of Latin origin has led to the creation of a cultural fabric as well as an absolutely unique artistic production and certainly typical only of that part of the world, remaining so even after the end of the Reconquista, in 1492.
May 10, 2014
Season 15Episode 6120 min
D-Day: lo sbarco ora per ora
We cannot remember the most intense period of our lives, that of the most surprising discoveries, of unstoppable progress, of dizzying goals. These are the first two years after birth, about 700 wonderful days that, even without remembering them, we sometimes partially relive as adults, observing a small human being growing up.
May 17, 2014
Season 15Episode 7120 min
Animali o compagni di vita
Paris, its secrets and its wonders. The Bridges of Paris and the Seine have been declared a world heritage site by UNESCO. Alberto Angela, aboard a vintage boat, travels along the Seine, using the river as a journey through time. He explores Paris in various stages: from the top of the Arc de Triomphe, to the Eiffel Tower, to the towers of the spectacular Nôtre Dame Cathedral. The appointment with the Eiffel Tower is unmissable, as told by Alberto Angela in all its details, and the surprising transformations of Paris at the end of the nineteenth century: from the birth of the department stores to the many attractions of Montmartre, to the cafés of the Latin Quarter. And then the changes that occurred in the twentieth century: from Beaubourg to Défense.
May 24, 2014
Season 15Episode 8120 min
La grande ricchezza: tesori da salvare
Alberto Angela recounts what has been defined as "Italian Normandy"; the arrival of allied troops on the beaches of Anzio, near Rome. On January 22, 1944, when 40,000 men landed on the coast of Lazio, a few hours' drive from Rome, the German army was taken by surprise. The road to Rome seems open. But the man in command of the army, General John Porter Lucas, is instead convinced that he is facing a crushing defeat. The overall objective is the city of Rome, the main prize of the Italian Campaign. Would Rome become the first European capital liberated from Nazism? How long would it have taken to break the German Army's resistance? And what price would the population have paid?
Oct 4, 2014
Season 15Episode 9120 min
Caldo e freddo. Vivere tra due estremi
Alberto Angela guides viewers on a journey to Andalusia to discover a region shaped over the centuries by a succession of civilizations that have overlapped with each other and which, despite their differences, have managed to coexist peacefully. Moving from Seville to Cordoba, from Granada to Ronda, we see for example how Christian churches have become mosques and then churches again, remaining intact in their structures and indeed enriching themselves from an architectural and decorative point of view. Names, words, customs have remained unchanged despite the succession of different and apparently opposing cultures. An era of peaceful coexistence that seems to have no equal in today's world. These are the main places told by Alberto Angela: in Seville the Alcazar, the Cathedral, the Plaza de España and the Casa de Pilatos; in Cordoba the Mezquita; in Granada the Alhambra and the Royal Chapel.
Oct 11, 2014
Season 15Episode 10120 min
Splendori di corte. Le signorie rinascimentali
"Ulisse, il piacere della scoperta" brings to life an extraordinary adventure. An adventure that we have all gone through, but which we cannot remember in part, or which we have spent with such enthusiasm that we cannot understand its significance: we are talking about the adventure of growing up, from birth to that shocking period that is 'adolescence.
Oct 18, 2014
Season 15Episode 11120 min
Il lungo viaggio dei treni. In carrozza!
Alberto Angela takes us on an extraordinary journey to discover the thousand secrets of Naples, a city that reserves constant surprises. Between a ride in the most beautiful subway in the world or in the old but very efficient funiculars, and one in the extraordinary University Museums, Angela takes us to discover a city that reserves constant surprises. Then the Sansevero Chapel, with the extraordinary statue of the Veiled Christ, commissioned by the famous prince of Sansevero and again in the splendid halls of the Royal Palace to speak of the glorious past of the city. Naples, founded by the Greeks, then "welcomed" the Romans, the Byzantines, the Normans, the Swabians, the Angevins, the Aragonese, and the Bourbons and they all left beautiful traces of their passage both in the urban fabric but also more so in the language and traditions.
Oct 25, 2014
Season 15Episode 12120 min
Le sorprese del DNA
In the company of Alberto Angela we travel in the middle of the tropical jungle, the green ring straddling the Equator between the Tropic of Cancer and that of Capricorn. This is 8% of the emerged land of our planet and it is our lungs: the tropical forest is one of the environments richest in life on the planet. It has been calculated that on an area of a few square kilometers of forest in Central America, 125 species of mammals, 400 species of birds, 100 species of reptiles, 60 species of amphibians and almost 40,000 species of insects can be found. Among them there are legendary animals such as tarantulas, which can reach 12 cm in length, the anaconda which can reach 8 meters and the boa constrictor which reaches 2 and a half metres. Then there are felines such as the jaguar in America, the leopard and the tiger in Asia.
Nov 1, 2014
Season 15Episode 13120 min
Vivere e morire a Pompei
Writing paper, reading paper, money paper, wrapping paper, wallpaper, kitchen paper, even construction paper and toilet paper. But also letters, diaries, coasters, birth certificates, board games, business cards, photographs and tea bags... An ancient material that we have always used and whose consumption shows no signs of decreasing, but which over the centuries has evolved to become almost 100% recyclable and reusable. A fiction will reconstruct the environment of the first medieval European paper mills, born here in Italy, in Fabriano, when the paper, which is of Chinese origin, after crossing the Arab world, arrives in the West. We will discover in the Tuscan industrial center of Capannori, near Lucca, that Italy is a world leader in paper production: a sort of economic lung from which a large part of the handkerchiefs (and not only) produced in the world come.
Nov 8, 2014
Season 15Episode 14120 min
Australia. Il continente delle sfide (replica modificata del 13 aprile 2013)
Nov 15, 2014
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