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Venice

Season 2 Episode 201 | 26m 47s

There is simply no other place in the world like Venice. Host Kathy McCabe takes a gondola rowing lesson from an 8th-generation gondolier. She learns from a scientist how Venice is fighting rising water levels. Kathy meets an impiraressa – a bead stringer – who is continuing this historic art. Chef Riccardo takes Kathy to Venice’s 1000-year old Rialto Market and teaches her to cook eel. Plus more!

Aired: 01/05/18 | Expires: 01/05/32
Distributed nationally by American Public Television
Host Kathy McCabe returns to her ancestral hometown in southern Italy to explore her roots
Director Francis Ford Coppola joins host Kathy McCabe in his ancestral region, Basilicata.
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Find out why Naples and the Amalfi Coast have been luring travelers for ages.
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