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Dream of Italy
Venice
Season 2
Episode 201
There is simply no other place in the world like Venice. Host Kathy McCabe takes a gondola rowing lesson from an 8th-generation gondolier. She learns from a scientist how Venice is fighting rising water levels. Kathy meets an impiraressa – a bead stringer – who is continuing this historic art. Chef Riccardo takes Kathy to Venice’s 1000-year old Rialto Market and teaches her to cook eel. Plus more!
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The Academy Award-winning actress joins us for a spiritual journey to Campania.
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More with Massimo Bottura and Lara Gilmore on Modena and philanthropy.
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The famous chef and his wife Lara welcome us into their culinary world in Modena.
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Explore a 1,000-room palace and taste lauded Chef Franco Pepe’s famous Pizza.
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Meet four Americans who have bought homes and affordably retired in this gorgeous region.
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Italy's most famous tenor introduces us to the Tuscany that shaped him.
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Host Kathy McCabe returns to her ancestral hometown in southern Italy to explore her roots
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Director Francis Ford Coppola joins host Kathy McCabe in his ancestral region, Basilicata.
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Explore a little known region of Italy - Abruzzo - from mountains to coastline.
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Florence, the city of art, is filled with surprises, old and new.
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Bologna is the city where Italians go to eat; join us for some culinary adventures.
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Puglia, the heel of Italy's boot, offers captivating landscapes and age-old traditions.