how about taking a few friends you could even take a chance on was. preparing to leave. don't expect happy ending. the church or. it could have been the. rule. either welcome to another year on that special all this week we're showing you around the most popular european countries to visit and today it's really is what's coming up. secy of romance exploring the nation's capital rome. latin lover of venice museum pays tribute to casanova.

band my mommy the city of naples is the birthplace of the. i will this week we've been starting off in the capital cities of our featured countries and today it's rome a city positively teeming with history and culture ten million tourists visit. the eternal city every year sites like the kosi i'm drawing huge crowds but we're going to beat the queues shun the usual sights and show you a different side of the capitol after all when in rome do as the romans do. the historical heart of rome is world famous and a favorite with tourists. but few make it here to the old working class neighborhood of test stop show in the south of the city on a spacious p.r. says the romans are left pretty much to their own devices for. this talk show lives

on the tiber river once home to the old city four to its old gas monitor still looms tall the neighborhood has plenty of delightful surprises in store like the tram depot cafe it's set in an old tram car. a real tory city marco and mary cecile for a meet here for coffee. they both lived in rome for years and have written numerous cookbooks together. either that you know has got you cafe in romans italy coffee isn't a drink it's a custom an excuse to sit down with friends and take a break. i don't know thousand i hear i'm drinking a coffee with ice cubes and espresso long goal just to put it shake and then you add a bit of sugar and serve it cold voice is that it. that you are friends and business

partners and both love the stillness of the orange dark they're both married to romans and experienced many tender moments here on the argentine or one of the seven hills on which the ancient city was built. was supposed to post this place is very romantic the romans come here and bring their fiances with them that their me if you don't so i feel sad also brought me here for the lovely views of the peace and quiet. you know you can spend all day all night. if you know that of the it and she won your heart here yes it did. not far from the terrace of the orange garden you can. look through the keyhole of a building belonging to the order of malta and see st peter's basilica from a very different perspective. and say is home to an unusual museum at the center on a monkey martini ancient roman sculpture on display in

a formal power plant. maria teresa and mary cecile love the contrast here between old and new. that it took to the. two they're mainly sculptures that once stood in the center of rome and that were excavated during an important ira in the city's history that the doing put down to me and the most were discovered at the end of the nineteenth century when grown take a middle east capitol. now she thought she was for my copy that he died a. few people know that there's an entire art nouveau quarter in the northeast of the city these ornate buildings are located in the cottier cope with big named after architect gino coping. he designed them in the early twentieth century. budding artists find plenty of inspiration at the piano so i mean chill.

trust eva is one of rome's trendier districts but there are still plenty of secluded spots like the piazza di santa cecilia named after the ninth century basilica. right next door or almost ready to restaurant serves up typical roman cuisine for these cookbook writers it's the perfect place to have dinner here they prepare food the traditional way just like they describe in their book. take this pasta dish cut choice made with pecorino romano cheese and pepper. same their own. it looks. a really easy pasta dish but it's not see. it on the net because the same fish it's tough to mix the source and to get the amount of cheese just trying to get it procured to satisfy it goes out a foot in my kill. meat dishes like oxtail. and tripe also

typical for roman cuisine. would have been. the only units of an animal like a cow used ram increasing is very focused on constant generally is prized and it's created some really surprising dishes from the mere fact that they. have been named. later we head to the southeast our day in the eternal city and article daily on kwaito and evening begins in the shadow of rome's ancient octagon . now you may have heard the name casanova before and many parts of the world is part of common everyday speech and often synonymous with womanizing but the man who's actually responsible for it giacomo casanova was an italian philosopher and reisa from venice his autobiography called story of my life is considered one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of

european social life during the eighteenth century now a new museum in venice gives visitors a closer look at other aspects of casanova's life. a trip back in time to a more lavish era many say the city of lovers on the adriatic is the most beautiful in the world but not everyone knows that venice is also the birthplace of one of the most famous lovers of all time jack casanova. he was born in this alley in seven hundred twenty five. a small marble plaque commemorates one of the city's most colorful sons. i admire him a lot his not only about lover i think but also his quick translator he bidets the lottery a fraud in france has so characters that he only a prisoner that succeeded in escaping the body if you gallop.

clear who is a student who came from paris for two days to find out more about casanova and she happened to meet another fan kano poet who just opened the first museum dedicated to casanova. and they soon put his through a lot of tourists take selfies in front of the plaque and say that's why i think venice should have more crossing over than this because people are curious about him and want to know more on the borders it doesn't contradict us that he's up at us with the north. pole not so papa found in the country a geo district this is where the business man found a space for the casanova museum which he financed himself. six rooms allow visitors to explore who casanova really was more than just an

eighteenth century playboy. because on all the more formal casanova was much more a great writer a philosopher and musician alchemy list and even a surviving their start one of the. multimedia technologies introduced the famous figure beginning with his youth in venice and continuing up to his death in seven hundred ninety eight casanova was a free spirit and an adventurer his restlessness pushed him to travel throughout europe where he met important people of his day like french philosopher and russian empress catherine the great. casanova's twelve volume memoir provides plenty of interesting insights into eighteenth century life but the venetian is mostly famous for his a rhotic escapades they've inspired countless films and helped turn casanova into a legend. a

smartphone app who guides visitors outside the museum in the footsteps of the famous lover. cousin of his mother was an actress this small porch art is where he grew up in his grandmother's house later he said to have lived with his father by the grand canal in the pilot so many piano. necks the out brings visitors to the piazza san mateo to the famous cafe florian this is where venetian high society met during casanova's lifetime. we haven't got the space or rather the governor kasich overcame her offer especially during the carnival of the sudden he sat in one of our aims and flirted with women. or that he was going to venice his great characters and a highly refined man that are. based on the other side of the gospel. but casanova also had enemies in seven hundred fifty five he was arrested by the

inquisition and thrown into a dungeon. here in the doge's palace in a small cell with a lead roof the master of seduction was imprisoned for a year before managing to escape. he would later write a book about his flight over the rooftops it became a european bestseller and brought him plenty of adulation. settling down until now he has tape here across this canal. and talk has a story of his flight definitely help casa nova make himself more interesting to many european a wrister gratz at the time and they would all by the better you know they'll just want you to casanova also leads to this small town friends near the realtor bridge it's reputed to have been casanova's favorite and is the highlight for clare. this attractive tall and not only because he's very handsome but also he's really a con that i think he has so much confidence in himself and he does magic to

comments people. of course you shouldn't take everything in casanova's memoirs at face value but the hunt for clues is exciting and gives fans of the world's greatest lover a chance to discover a different side of dennis. now it's time to feast your eyes on one of italy's pride and joy is the pizza we travel to naples to get a taste for tradition for three hundred years the city has been home to what is allegedly the world's best pizza after an eight year long fight for the staples inclusion in unesco's list of intangible cultural heritage it finally made the cut in twenty seventeen so let's find out what exactly makes up the arse of the pizza aioli. in the italian city of naples pizza making is not. one that has been perfected over centuries and been exported around the world in

the old town you can get a pizza in every street corner. we took the fortune you see that doesn't get street food forever. if it gets enough money time is the best league in the world by its own tent poetry. t.v. chef gino sibylla was a star among the city's pizza makers by lunchtime the line of diners already extends out into the streets. forty three year olds are below and this trusty team served up around fifteen hundred pizzas a day. surreal over there the craft as a boy from his family. said charlie loved the basic rules were invented in naples and pizzas now made all over the world in endless varieties but no other place can look back on a three hundred year old tradition like naples does the simple one who really knows the thing about it on. the basic recipe is straightforward enough. to take flour

water east and a dash of salt and need them together to form the job which is then left to rise for at least twelve hours. the resulting elasticities allows the dough to be harmed portions into balls. they inserted are also left to rise only denver's the p.c. although stretched them into can this six. i did some went up to get what was the first you flatten the dough with your fingers now only from above not sideways. the next i think is the slap will. hit the dough in concert from one hand to the other destruction. but with suspender use a minimum of flour so it doesn't burn in the open. the classic neopolitan pizza has a simple topping of tomato sauce muscle relevant basil. the baker doesn't slides it into the oven which is wood fired. it turns the pizza

a couple of times to insure it even baking and then quickly pulls it adds it's ready to eat in just sixty to ninety seconds and crucially the pizza has to be soft enough to fold so can be. held in the hunt. was a success and it would be so you only are getting ever more prestige in recent years nowadays pizzas are on the menu at upscale restaurants too so in addition to the head chef the pizza you'll know is also important the most i think it's a little right by the entrance to the old town is naples oldest pizzeria until you could pizzeria points out that. there was a stand making and selling pizza on the spot way back in seventy thirty eight so. the pizza yellow makes sure the oven temperature does not stray outside the standard for one hundred fifty to five hundred degrees celsius. if it's not a wood fired oven it's not near polishing pizza. general luciano lets his joe rise for forty eight hours. the bass has to be thinned and soft enough crispy. the race

crust or corny chauny is another typical feature you couldn't hold in a beer macross it should be no higher than two or three centimeters the florida. today naples is home to some three thousand pizza makers gennaro luciano also trains aspiring p.c. only understood it catered to maintaining the tradition of authentic neo pilots and pizza from a film i inherited their passion for pizza from my great grandfather my grandfather and my father. you know when i was thirteen i learned the art myself you know i'm fifty seven and will pass it undermines children and grandchildren it's a tradition that should never be allowed to disappear from the dram i feel even hollywood immortalize naples pizza making tradition julia roberts appearance in the end seek a pizzeria mickael it certainly added to the restaurant's popularity. with

we came here straight from the airport and we even brought our suitcases just to eat the pizza here. there are only two varieties here marinara and margarita both cost four euros pizza is after all supposed to be nourishment for everyone not a part of that tradition fostered by naples pizza makers. go to admit that made me a little bit hungry now that we've made our way around some of italy's biggest cities it's time to travel to the country's biggest island in fact it's the biggest island in the mediterranean sea sicily is an autonomous region of its league with its own particular culture the people that consider themselves sicilians first and italians second and the regions capital city of palermo you can enjoy wonderful weather all year round and also a wealth of culture color mary delights and an exciting history.

the picturesque capital of sicily calamita is surrounded by mountains and crystal blue sea. early in the morning only the fishermen are awake unloading that catch in a starry comma and they are convinced that this is the best place in the world. that i lost. but like this sicily is the most beautiful place on earth. the climate the people every thing the. edge to bulls the fruits the fish now three things. we have everything including beautiful women lead. a stroll around the historic center is best begun at an intersection called quatro canty all four corners up to the four richly decorated matching corner buildings

the traffic our bizarre high points of the rock architecture from the knights to the eleventh century pelham i was on the north african rule the saracens use the old basilica as a mosque. after them came the normans who built the present cathedral maria santissima as winter which is also known as the norman cathedral. cafe spent is a popular spot for a lunch break. if you want to do is the locals do eat while standing in the park. the food on offer include can only apps the most famous is in ender's or. it's made fresh air every day. so what is the feeling actually made up. because. it adds to that we take record to. add sugar. and then

mix it all together thoroughly. when the recruiter has reached the right consistency. little pieces of chocolate i do with what it is and then we feel they can really show us with a mixture that they can. after a bite to eat it's time to visit a nearby tea outro mass email from maria callas to luciano pavarotti many of the world's opera stars have sung here it's one of europe's biggest opera houses. ten other sandro luciano knobs the acoustics and the atmosphere of the theatre. i sing some fifteen years so i've sung in a local theater every every time i sing in a new one with this kind of research i can feel the power of the. history in

that that's beautiful. the best way to round off the day is on monday pelligrino with its perfect view of palermo with views like this palermo is shown to enchant many more visitors. last but not least to show you just how varied is aaliyah's we travel from its southern tip far up north to the dollar mights for a final stop there get dana valley is a favorite home for skiers and snowboarders but there are also some more out there challenges for winter sports fans like scaling up an ice wall not for the faint hearted but the views are certainly captivating see for yourself. taking this does and endless slopes the dolemite and south to roll our winter sports haven the can only be described in surprise. in a matter of minutes a lift takes you from the guard down of valley to the peace nestling between the three thousand meter high rocky peaks of long couple in the cellar group. we have

one of the most if not for the most beautiful ski areas in the world with all the slopes you can do more than just traditional skiing you can go cross-country skiing to ball going to bars climbing anything winter has to walk. in europe's largest ski region super ski thousands of kilometers of slopes that all levels of difficulty connect twelve different ski areas no wonder it attracts tourists from all over the world. the locals are only linked on the descents alone . you see on the many frozen waterfalls like here at the thirty five meter high chair bellow waterfall in dar down the valley here on the other side the next highlight awaits the mountain guide who about marauder takes to terrorists to climb below a twenty metre high frozen waterfall popular with climbers and. the

experienced ice climber and mountain guide shows how it's done. in the middle. draw him a bit hard and then right back to the middle and then a bit to the left then the wrong pig always stays in the middle of your body. before the beginners get going but climbs ahead of them and attaches the safety rope to special hooks. on for just this just stop scratching the surface of the stick until it falls. just for people to be attached to the rope this is crucial most beginners lose their grip on the ice clearing the first few attempts. to cut clears away this ice to make it safer.

even for experience mountain climbers ice climbing takes some getting used to driving the ice picks and crampons into the brittle ice keeps you warm despite the freezing conditions. but murder takes small groups out all over the dolemite. store where he throws things you don't believe any traces of the heart because i'd always freeze it differently it's never the same as it was last year so warrants discover a new waterfall. frozen before but a frozen again this year. it's a great source of. some ice falls further up the dolemite cliffs have yet to be climbs but it's a long way out to reach the ice climbing is enjoying a boom here in northern italy many faults remain frozen for months. a trial course

costs around one hundred twenty five heroes and you can rent the necessary equipment just capitaine will give you a good taste of ice climbing. so we have time for today but of course we'll be back with another top travel destination tomorrow you can also catch up on all your remarks shows online on our website d w dot com slash lifestyle or find us on instagram d w euro max see you again soon and shall for now. next time we head for spain and discover some of the lesser known attractions of the capital madrid to take a trip on i'm not sure your strength it is fit for a king. and we chill out in the sunny carry on. this and more in our next hour special edition of europe's.

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