First Look - Meraviglie: A Tour of Italy’s Wonders (Season 1)

If you love Italy, if you’ve been to Italy or if you want to go to Italy, this is a must-see series! No kidding – you have to watch Meraviglie: A Tour of Italy’s Wonders. Host Alberto Angela from the fabulous A Night In… series takes us to some amazing, haunting, gorgeous places, and he’s a knowledgeable and terrific guide – non-intrusive and not irritating. And thanks to the drone camera shots, you’ll see everything from unprecedented vantage points. No wonder well-educated people used to take the ‘Grand Tour’ in the 19th century, which included many of these sites.

In this short clip above, you saw:

1. 1. Val d’Orcia wine country, south of Sienna
   2. The Nuraghe of Santu Antine: a Bronze Age royal palace in Sardinia
   3. Castel del Monte in Puglia, built by Frederick II in the 1240s
   4. One of the Riace bronzes, now in Reggio, Calabria, dating from 500 BC
   5. Siena Cathedral
   6. Trulli stone structures from Alberobello
   7. The Temple of Concordia in Agrigento, Sicily
   8. Aerial evening view of Florence
   9. Fountain on the grounds of the Royal Palace of Caserta
   10. Oldest known image of St. Francis of Assisi
   11. Lawrence Church in the Certosa di Padula
   12. A home designed by Palladio in Vicenze
   13. Etruscan burial tombs outside Cerveteri
   14. Tile floor from Roman ruins beneath Assisi
   15. Dolomite Mountains

And folks, this is just the tip of the iceberg. There is so much more than what we see in this trailer – check it out!