Rick Steves' Europe: Italy's Cities (2000 - 2009) (Full Frame, Widescreen)

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All 7 half-hour "Rick Steves' Europe" TV shows on Italy's cities, filmed entirely on location, are together on a single DVD. Here's where we'll take you... "Venice: Serene, Decadent and Still Kicking": Sorting through the monuments of magical Venice, we drink in the art of Titian, Bellini, Donatello, and the Doge's Palace. We luxuriate in a venerable cafe on St. Mark's Square, and enjoy calamari with locals in a canal-side pub. "Venice Side-Trips: The Best of Veneto": Pulling on hip boots, we settle into the muck of the Venetian lagoon. Back on the mainland, we check out a chapel restoration in Padova, Palladian-style streets and villas in Vicenza, romance in Verona, and dazzling mosaics in Ravenna. "Milan and Lake Como": In Milan we'll take a peek at Italy's highest fashion, fanciest delis, grandest cemetery and greatest opera house...and Leonardo's "The Last Supper". Then we'll cruise along Lake Como, settling down in the lakeside village of Varenna, where Italy meets the Alps. "Florence: City of Art": We look into the eyes of Michelangelo's David, learn tricks for touring the Uffizi art gallery, and climb the amazing cathedral dome that kicked off the Renaissance. Then we chase the sunset on a Vespa, and sleep serenely in a converted monastery. "Caesar's Rome": 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. "Rome: Baroque, After Dark": After a pilgrimage to Michelangelo's Pieta, we climb to the top of St. Peter's Basilica. At the Borghese Gallery, it's exquisite sculptures by the master of marble, Bernini. Then we take an after-dark stroll, lacing together Rome's Baroque and bubbly nightspots. "Naples and Pompeii": Naples is Italy in the extreme. We'll prowl backstreet fish markets, dodge fast-moving Vespas, and dine on pizza where it was invented.