580 Villages of Tuscany; Megafauna
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
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🗓️ 12 October 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
American-born tour guides who've settled in Tuscany tell us why it's an ideal region for experiencing the essence of Italy. And the curator of mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History tells us what scientists are learning about the fantastic beasts that used to roam the Earth — as they investigate why they went extinct.
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| 0:00.0 | The villages of Tuscany come complete with castles Kianti and Charm. |
| 0:05.0 | And on top of the hill, where I saw maybe the most beautiful sunset I've ever seen in Tuscany, |
| 0:10.0 | there is a 14th century village. |
| 0:13.0 | Coming up we'll hear the best things about living in Tuscany, |
| 0:16.0 | where rivalries from the Middle Ages still echo on today's soccer fields. |
| 0:20.0 | The C&E's fans are chanting to the Florentines, |
| 0:23.4 | Recordate Monte Perti. |
| 0:26.2 | Remember Monte Perti. |
| 0:28.1 | Remember that time in 1260 when we beat you. |
| 0:33.0 | And a paleomemologist reminds us of the spectacular creatures that once occupied the places |
| 0:37.8 | we live and visit long before any tourists showed up. |
| 0:41.3 | People know about Komodo Dragons from Indonesia, but a very close relative but very much larger lived in Australia, about 40,000 years ago. |
| 0:50.0 | This was a huge, huge monster, maybe 30 feet long. |
| 0:54.0 | It's all in the hour ahead on travel with Rick Steves. |
| 0:57.0 | Come along. |
| 1:00.0 | There were stranger creatures than you can ever imagine roaming the earth until maybe a few thousand years ago. |
| 1:06.0 | Like leemers, the size of guerrillas and 500-pound birds. |
| 1:10.0 | Coming up a little later in the hour on today's travel with Rick Steves, |
| 1:13.5 | Ross McPhee from the American Museum of Natural History |
| 1:16.5 | tells us what they've learned about the megafauna. |
| 1:26.7 | So many people are so crazy about Italy and in Italy you've got all of these distinct regions and provinces that are just they got their own personality |
| 1:30.8 | and for a lot of people the quintessence of Italy is Tuscany. |
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