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Budapest[a] is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is Hungary's primary city with 1.7 million inhabitants and its greater metro area has a population of about 3.3 million, representing one-third of the country's population and producing more than 40% of the country's economic output. Budapest is the political, economic, and cultural center of the country, among the ten largest cities...

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It's now 1917 and Nanne begins his second year of recording life in the Netherlands. Now 16 years old, the Great War continues to rage as food becomes more scarce and friends begin to join the military. In the midst of this, Nanne lives a familiar teenage life complete with ice skating, run ins with the law, and mocking friends for singing off key. This episode will take us through the year 1917 f...

It's new years day 1916 and in the small Dutch town of Uithoorn a 15 year old boy named Nanne Vriend begins a diary. Living just outside of Amsterdam in the peak of the first world war, Nanne describes daily life shaped by the ongoing conflict. This episode will take us through the year 1916 for the family living in Holland.

The Rialto Bridge is the oldest of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. Connecting the districts of San Marco and San Polo, it has been rebuilt several times since its first construction as a pontoon bridge in 1173, and is now a significant tourist attraction in the city.

Santa Maria della Salute (English: Saint Mary of Health ), commonly known simply as the Salute, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica located at Punta della Dogana in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the city of Venice, Italy. It stands on the narrow finger of Punta della Dogana, between the Grand Canal and the Giudecca Canal, at the Bacino di San Marco, making the church visible when entering th...

The Doge's Palace is a palace built in Venetian Gothic style, and one of the main landmarks of the city of Venice in northern Italy. The palace was the residence of the Doge of Venice, the supreme authority of the former Republic. It was built in 1340 and extended and modified in the following centuries. It became a museum in 1923.

The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark, commonly known as St Mark's Basilica , is the cathedral church of the Catholic Patriarchate of Venice. It is dedicated to and holds the relics of Saint Mark the Evangelist, the patron saint of the city. The church is located on the eastern end of Saint Mark's Square, the former political and religious center of the Republic of Venice, and is attach...

Piazza San Marco, often known in English as St Mark's Square , is the principal public square of Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as la Piazza ("the Square"). All other urban spaces in the city (except the Piazzetta and the Piazzale Roma) are called campi ("fields"). The Piazzetta ("little Piazza/Square") is an extension of the Piazza towards San Marco basin in its southeast corner....

Venice is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po and the Piave rivers. The name is derived from the ancient Veneti people who inhabited the region by the 10th century B...

The Pantheon is a former Roman temple and, since 609 AD, a Catholic church (Basilica of St. Mary and the Martyrs), on the site of an earlier temple commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus. The building is cylindrical with a portico of large granite Corinthian columns under a pediment. A rectangular vestibule links the porch to the rotunda, which is under a coffered concrete dom...

The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican , or simply Saint Peter's Basilica , is a church built in the Renaissance style located in Vatican City. It was initially planned by Pope Nicholas V and then Pope Julius II to replace the aging Old St. Peter's Basilica, which was built in the fourth century by Roman emperor Constantine the Great. Construction of the present basilica began on 18 Apri...

Vatican City , officially the Vatican City State, is an independent city-state and enclave surrounded by Rome. Also known simply as the Vatican, the state became independent from Italy in 1929 with the Lateran Treaty, and it is a distinct territory under "full ownership, exclusive dominion, and sovereign authority and jurisdiction" of the Holy See, itself a sovereign entity of international law, w...

The Spanish Steps climb a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, dominated by the Trinità dei Monti church at the top. The monumental stairway of 135 steps was built with French diplomat Étienne Gueffier's bequeathed funds of 20,000 scudi, in 1725, linking the Trinità dei Monti church under the patronage of the Bourbon kings of France and the Spanish Emb...

The Trevi Fountain is an 18th-century fountain in the Trevi district in Rome. Standing 86 feet high (26 meters) and 161 feet wide (49 meters), it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city and one of the most famous fountains in the world. The fountain has appeared in several films including: Roman Holiday (1953); Three Coins in the Fountain (1954); La Dolce Vita (1960); Sabrina Goes to Rome (199...

The Roman Forum , or Forum Romanum in Latin, is a rectangular plaza surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome. For centuries the Forum was the center of day-to-day life in Rome: the site of triumphal processions and elections; the venue for public speeches, criminal trials, and gladiatorial matches; and the nucleus of commercial aff...

The Colosseum is an oval amphitheater in the centre of the city of Rome and is the largest ancient amphitheater ever built. Construction began under the emperor Vespasian in 72 AD and was completed in 80 AD under his successor and Titus. It is still the largest standing amphitheater in the world today, despite its age. Although substantially ruined by earthquakes and stone robbers, the Colosseum i...

Rome is the Italy's most populated city and the third most populous city in the European Union. It's also home to the world's smallest country, Vatican City, which is also the only country in the world to be completely inside the boundaries of a city. The complex history of this city spans more than three millennium and this episode will briefly explore that story.