Italy's Invisible Cities

Nitefly

Just watched this on Beeb 1 - Alexander Armstrong and Michael Scott exploring cities in Italy (they've done Venice and Naples in previous weeks, Florence tonight).

Well worth a watch if you're at all interested in Italian history and/or art - they use scanning equipment to construct a VR model of the city in question, whilst exploring the bits that most of us don't get to see.

If you missed them I'm sure they'll be on iPlayer.

boogieman

It's a very good series, seen the Venice and Florence ones so far. 

Emp_Fab

boogieman said:

It's a very good series, seen the Venice and Florence ones so far. 

No - you haven't.  Not if they're invisible.

slacker

I went to Venice did I see it? 

57Deluxe

Alexander 'Xander(!)'?  WTF is all the child-like smiling and uber excitedness all about with everything?? Jeez - makes my jaw ache...

Cirrus

I happened on these on Iplayer, stuck the first one on not expecting much and really enjoyed it! Venice was cool too. I knew in principle that the city was built on wooden stakes, spent a few days there when I was 18. But actually seeing them walking in the marsh and the CGI that showed how it was done was really cool.

olafgarten

I've never seen an episode of Pointless like this.

ChrisMusic

Excellent series, we are really enjoying them, thanks so much for posting this  

boogieman

57Deluxe said:

Alexander 'Xander(!)'?  WTF is all the child-like smiling and uber excitedness all about with everything?? Jeez - makes my jaw ache...

He's probably been told to act all excited by the producer. I don't mind it tbh, I actually find Mr Smugface Michael Scott far more irritating.

Nitefly

boogieman said:

57Deluxe said:

Alexander 'Xander(!)'?  WTF is all the child-like smiling and uber excitedness all about with everything?? Jeez - makes my jaw ache...

He's probably been told to act all excited by the producer. I don't mind it tbh, I actually find Mr Smugface Michael Scott far more irritating.

Agreed, although I have to admit that he knows his stuff.

I wonder if they'll do more?  What other cities would folks like to see?

ChrisMusic

They made comment in the first episode about having done scans in Rome, so I guess that second series is on the cards.  I'm hanging fire on the Firenze episode for now, gotta have something to look forward to

cacophony

having been to naples, i wish that place WOULD disappear...

Cirrus

Funny, a guy at work warned me off going there when I was talking about taking my wife on a city break. Since I couldn't afford to take her on a city break, I decided to believe him.

ChrisMusic

And maybe the precursor to the Italian programs

Egypt's Lost Cities
first shown in 2011

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011pwms/egypts-lost-cities

available for 11 more days on iPlayer...

boogieman

Some Aussie friends of ours went to Naples and the wife was mugged in the street had a gold necklace stolen, all within a couple of of hours of them landing. Not a nice place for tourists by the sound of it. The Amalfi coast is lovely though, we had our honeymoon in Positano. 

Wazmeister

cacophony said:

having been to naples, i wish that place WOULD disappear...

Propa shithole isnt it mate ?!?

57Deluxe

/\ But is the birth place of Pizzas...