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Milazzo : Sicily
Visitors so often miss the town of Milazzo in their visits to Sicily, but in doing so they are missing out of some of Sicily's most beautiful vistas at Capo Milazzo. We take a walk through the town visiting the Vaccarella quarter, the castle and Capo Milazzo
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Pietrapertosa to Castelmezzano - the route of the seven stones
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We visit the Italian region of Basilicata and take a walk from Pietrapertosa to Castelmezzano along the path of the Seven Stones. These two charming villages are located in the Lucanian Dolomites which provide them with a dramatic backdrop.
Easter Sunday in Piana degli Albanesi
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On Easter Sunday we visited Piana degli Albanesi in Sicily to witness the colourful festivities.
The Greek origins of Siracusa
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We visit Ortigia, in Siracusa, to explore its origins. In the 5th century BC, it was the most powerful city in all the Greek world - more powerful, even, than Athens. We discover how this came about and what happened to the city in subsequent years.
Pearls of the Sicilian Baroque - a visit to Scicli, Modica & Ragusa
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The Southern corner of Sicily is an arid landscape - characterised by deep gorges scoured into the Iblean plateau. And it is home to some of the island’s most beautiful and evocative towns. Cresting the hilltops or skirting canyons, the houses stack like sugar-cubes. The local limestone, baked by the hot Sicilian sun, gives the buildings a warm, honeyed colour. And it’s here we find some of the...
The tea-gardens at The Orchard, Grantchester.
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For over a hundred and twenty years, some of the greatest minds in the world have made the journey from Cambridge to Grantchester to visit the tea-gardens at the Orchard. We follow their footsteps and sample the cream tea and scones.
Our visit to Down House, Kent
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Today we’re visiting Down House in Kent, the home of Charles Darwin for forty years and where he wrote the books and papers that were to make him a household name.
Turkey - the classical sites of north western Turkey
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Most of the places we are going to visit today were, at some time in their past - Greek. And this is the common thread that runs through the places we visit. However, Greek influence in the area was more by settlement rather than the foundation of colonies (in the way that we have seen in Sicily and Southern Italy). Probably the Greeks simply took over the places they inhabited over the course ...
Puglia - the pearl of the Mediterranean
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Puglia has a longer coastline that any other mainland Italian region. It is also among the hottest and driest of all Italy’s regions. It is home to two National Parks - the Alta Murgia and the Gargano, but outside these, most of Puglia is flat. This means that getting around Puglia is much more straightforward than somewhere like Calabria. Most of Puglia is limestone - and we see this particula...
Iran - the Traveller's Holy Grail
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Iran - or Persia - is a vast country with a population of 83 million people and is the second largest country in the Middle East. It is the home to one of the world’s oldest civilisations - the foundation of the Elamite kingdom was in the 4th millennium BC. Historically, in the West we have tended to refer to it as Persia - a convention that stems mainly from the writings of the ancient Greeks ...
Georgia - the Kingdom of Mountains
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Georgia is, to my mind, one of the most fascinating countries of all. Although it is a neighbour of Armenia (which we visited in the Autumn) it is very different. It is a small country. The distance from West to East is approximately 300km. In area, it covers 70,000km2 which makes it roughly equivalent in size to Southern Ireland. Its population is also comparable to that of Southern Ireland - ...
Calabria - the land of saints and brigands
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Calabria - along with perhaps Basilicata - is the one of the least known and explored of all Italy’s regions. One reason for that is that it has always been very difficult to get to - especially from abroad. But the other reason is perhaps the feeling that there was not much here to see. Both of these assumptions turn out to be untrue. Nowadays there are flights (albeit infrequent) to Lamezia T...
Malta : the fortress of the Mediterranean
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Malta is in so many ways, the smaller brother of Sicily - much of its history mirrors that of its larger Italian neighbour. The two islands also share so much in terms of architecture, food - and even geology. And yet Malta still has something unique, which no other mediterranean island comes close to. There are certain things which are unmistakably “Maltese” - the beautiful balconies in Vallet...
Istanbul: the Eternal City
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It was, as we or over one thousand years, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire from 330 until 1453, when it was besieged and the Byzantines defeated by a 21 year old from the House of Osman: Mehmed the Conqueror - or known in Turkish as Fatih Sultan Mehmed. The Ottomans made it their capital and it remained so until 1920 with the dissolution of the Ottoman parliament by the Allies. Notably t...
In the steps of St. Botolph - patron saint of wayfarers and travellers
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In the steps of St. Botolph - patron saint of wayfarers and travellers
Pink Floyd: Their beginnings in Cambridge - a journey with Esplora Travel
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Pink Floyd: Their beginnings in Cambridge - a journey with Esplora Travel
I Borghi più belli di Sicilia - the most beautiful towns in Sicily
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I Borghi più belli di Sicilia - the most beautiful towns in Sicily
Why was it an obligation for Greek citizens to attend the theater?
Thank you very interesting 😍
Great video. Thanks for posting.
thank you
One of the best videos for the early history in Siracusa
thank you for this little tour:)
Where were you in the last 30 seconds of the video?
My God, man. I think you started by showing us the skeleton of a dwarf elephant and talked about how it could’ve arrived on the islands off Sicily. And then you moved into the cave art of this island and proceed to describe an image in black paint of a 4-legged beast with a Long curvy Trunk that is depicted AND YOU CALL IT A COW. ??? I think you’ve made a mistake here. COWS DO NOT HAVE TRUNKS. Do Carry On…
Exactly it is Albanian it's called you did not even mention them called Abresha so they immigrated even before Christ to Calabria and build that Castle by sea. you forget about that! They move form Turks and move and immigrated to City Calabria and this is how Calabria has name. I am sorry if i am wrong but no i am not. and This is fact
Church tradition was to place gargoyles on the exterior of church's to show the cosmic pattern of how the structures of identity dissolve as you go further from the church. A gargoyle is a monster. A monster is something you can't name. A new identity that doesn't fit a category of meaning. The mermaid is a mix of identities. It's a woman who can swim in the waters. Half woman half fish- a mix of identity. The cat with the horses body and the dog with a possibly mixed body... mixing of identity. An identity crisis. This is the "waters" that flood the "earth". When you dissolve the structure it turns to water. The more structures that dissolve the more the water. Noahs ark... the animals of the earth... 2 clean 2 unclean... this all ties in with the same story. We read everything LITERALLY 😅😅 Damn, most Christians think that Adam and Eve were the first two individual human beings 😂😂 not even read Genesis.
ILIRICUM SACRUM DANIELE FARLATI FILIPPO RICEPUTI, PELASGIAN, ETRUSKIAN, ILLYRIAN, ALBANIAN, SHQIPËTARË 🇦🇱🇮🇹🇽🇰🇺🇸
Non siamo shqipetare, con tutto rispetto per questa popolazione
Thank you for this video tour. I’m planning on visiting the hilltop village of my great grandparents nearby (Accettura) and you gave us an idea for a unique way to experience these two borghi which are on our list. Cheers!
Thank you very much...!
thank you
Lovely! Thanks for posting.
Sono passati più di 500 anni fa.sono arbereshe di arberia= albania.sono scappati durante atroce domino dei islamisti turchi che volevano cambiare con la forza di tagliagole cultura e religione Ma arbereshe sapevamo benissimo che loro principe giorgio castriota ha combatuto contro ottomani per conservare religione e cultura cristiana ortodossa...albanesi di allora finché era giorgio castriota erano tutti cristiani ortodossi. Giorgio castriota gjergj kastrioti. morì nel l468.dopo la sua morte e cominciato calvario del popolo albanese.islamisti con la forza di tagliagole impedivano albanesi di allora leggere e scrivere con proprio alfabeto. Il peggio è quando nelle registrazioni della popolazione una volta in potere cambiavano nomi e cognomi ' da cristiani ortodossi in musulmani. Turchia islamista impediva albanesi di sventolare la propria bandiera🦅🇦🇱🦅. Quella delle aquile. 🦅🇦🇱🦅' sostituendo con quella della schiavitù ' quella islamista.turchia islamista ha fatto un danno irrecuperabile agli albanesi di allora negando la vera propria identità. Perciò arbereshe hanno da dire tanto il perché hanno preso le barche per raggiungere le coste italiane.... arbereshe sono figli di Gesù e non figli del sultano ... tutt' ora sultano erdogan non dimentica la bella posizione geografica della bella albania. Le sue interesse sono soltanto riempire adriatico pieno di moschee. Viva popolo arbereshe 🦅🇦🇱🦅 .👋🇮🇹
Thanks bro.👍🇬🇪❤️❤️
this is interesting. I want to take a tour like that one day when I go to england.
Syd had a part-time job collecting the supermarket trolleys in the car park at the local Sainsbury's 😱😱 Is that true? I've never heard about!
Good stuff, I’m of Sicilian heritage- can’t wait for the Baroque lecture and yes I love Montalbano - the writer (passed away few years back only recently) very talented cinematic writer - loved and respected throughout Italy
🎶 Shine on you crazy diamond 🎶💎
Excellent video.thanks for showing us.always wanted to see this!
Lochfyne has gone now it is Little Rose pub again.
That was born.
I was morn there. Le zampogne the shepherd play music 🎶🎵 with , it's especially before an up to Christmas.
Can't hear you clearly for most of the video.
I have a rental house in Calabria for those who may be interested to visit.
My father is from here. I will visit soon. I have my Italian passport:)
Great video, fascinating, well-plotted and written, and amazing to have so much beautiful accompany footage to make the story so real
Beautiful, beautiful. Cambridge is a hidden gym of Europe
Yes indeed I always work out there.
I stumbled across this... I enjoyed it immensely . Thanks for the history lesson. We are going on holiday to the Salento this September! Greetings from Naples, Florida!
The Orthodox monks were closed minded recluses who kept calabria dark. I hate the orthodox rulership of calabria. Boring and uneventful. Calabria should have been run at least by visionary leaders of Constantinople instead of low life hermits
Why do you speak from such ignorance and arrogance. The title is so misleading. You are a joke. Read up on your history bud. Read up where the king of normans was born?
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the Zampogne just made me cry ...beautiful memories for me ..thank you so much ..
They're Orthodox monks coming straight from the monastic Republic of Mount Athos in Greece, they depend on the Patriarch of Costantinoples(today, Istanbul, Turkey). Calabria was part of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire, which survived until 1453, whose Capital city was Costantinoples!), Note: the Eastern Roman Empire was born after the fall of the Western Roman Empire whose Capital city was Rome
Did not know you could go skiing there
2 great great grandfathers of mine were from Calabria 🇦🇷🇮🇹🤌🤌😘😘
One of my great grandfathers was from Arci, Calabria, Italia. 🇮🇹 ➡️ 🇺🇸 maybe we're super distant cousins ☺️
Thank you so much for a wonderful lecture. I learned so much about the land of my ancestors. I hope to visit some of the places you talked about.
Don’t forget the cathedral in Cefalù, place of my ancestors.
Great, but will you PLEASE get closer to, or invest in a proper external microphone?
And I greatly appreciate your presentation.
Yes right the Phoenicians did come to the Italian islands and quasi mixed with pre-roman Italian Peoples of ancient times sometimes trade a few other Gods but usually not sometimes trade coloring and handwriting but also things to wasn't dispensation giving two people of southern Europe Southern Europeans were also giving things to the Phoenicians from Canaan(Palestine/Lebanon/Syria) and North Africa aka Carthage.
Great lecture and presentation!
St Botolph is said to have preached under a Pear Tree in Buttsbury Essex, the old names of Buttsbury are many in 1219 botolfviespire was its name, I like to think the Church the lonely Church with no village now is where he preached, interesting connection, North Door Ironwork is possibly Viking or even Saxon, there were 7 Saxon Monors here, was the Ironwork from Cnut? Cnut the Great had Botolphs body moved, another Church St Botolph in Hadstock Essex, is Saxon, but built by Cnuts army after 1016, a further connection in the same area as Buttsbury, a street called Perry St in neighbouring Billericay is said to come from Pear St, Wolvensbridge was here in 1295, History is fascinating and adictive
Fascinating, Paul. Thank you. I don't know of this church you mention, but it has inspired me to visit when I get a chance.
@@esploratravel8637 Yes St Botolph was an interesting man, interesting what you say about the churches being positioned where travellers would be, St Mary's is positioned on a bend where 3 roads meet, its west of where there would have been a Saxon Village, I have read that Churches from Saxon times were positioned West, a similar Church positioned West to its Saxon village, I would recommend Canewdon in Essex, if you want to visit a church that is on the original walking route St Peters Pilgrims route, check out Mundon in Essex Church, its very interesting and the forest of petrified oak trees are 1000 years old at the rear, recommended. About 4 miles from Buttsbury is Great Burstead, St Mary Magdalene, it was established by St Cedd in the 6th century, St Cedd set up a preaching cross, the Saxons would come to the Cross, then he blessed a well, the well is still there, behind the bus stop, I'm not joking out the front of the Church, then a church was built, Great Burstead was the first place to convert to Christianity in Essex by the King Seaberht, St Saebhert established a Chapel in London, on the spot of West Minster Cathedral, Cedd and his brother St Chad came down from Lindesfarm in the 6th century, so St Botolph would have studied there work closely, I would say St Botolph would have walked there, you see Great Burstead is just off the old Roman road to Tilbury, Tilbury was the main crossing route to London, in 950ad Barking Abbey owned the land here in Essex, another fact William the Conqueror half brother Bishop Odo owned Burstead, it was his capital Manor, when he was released from jail he went on another crusade, the 12th century chest is still in the church, just look up St Mary Magdalene Great Burstead on Wikipedia, I created this page & St Mary's Buttsbury, my person theory on the North Door of Buttsbury is it that Cnut the Great had his forgers make up the Ironwork to recognise St Botolph preached here, Cnut himself was deeply religious and ended up on pilgrimage to Rome, building Ashingdon church where he defeated Edward Ironside in 1016, so many mysteries which we will never quiet know
@@paulbutterworthbillericay Fascinating... thank you Paul. You have given me a lot of homework to do! I look forward to visiting some of these places you mention.
@@esploratravel8637 Yes sorry to babble on but I find it all so interesting, best of luck
Ora pro nobis
New evidence suggests that the Carthaginians did not sacrifice children. DNA samples of the children's bodies returned both male and female, which is contrary to the accounts given asserting the Phoenicians conducted child sacrifice.
Wonderful D!! Lovely to hear your voice. You nailed it. I remember you bringing back Pink after the gig.....wearing the Afghan coat...♥️
I would love to visit these places you have mentioned. I was born in Sicily and speak the language. I would definitely visit after The COVID issue has passed us.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻it's a pleasure to listen to you.
I took four pages of notes on this lecture. I am ashamed to admit it, but despite being Sicilian I didn't know many of the things beautifully explained. THANK YOU VERY MUCH INDEED! It has been amazing!
Interesting and wonderful video! Thanks to Damian!!