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622 UK Royals; Lost Pianos of Siberia; Action in the Piazza

Travel with Rick Steves

Rick Steves

Places & Travel, Rick Steves, Travel, Public Radio, 721132, Society & Culture, Npr, Europe

4.52.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

"Have you got a piano?" Sophy Roberts tells us how that simple question warmed her up to the people of Siberia on a search for historic pianos in the Russian Far East. Plus, find out how you can get close to the sites and treasures of the British royal family. And author Frances Mayes explains how piazzas play a vital role in the life of Italian towns and cities — and shares her personal favorites. 

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0:00.0

You can sing hymns with the Queen if you time your visit right to Balmoral in Scotland.

0:05.0

If you ever wanted to try and see the Royals and you happen to be up there during the summer, go to the church.

0:11.0

Coming up here where you can do some royal sightseeing.

0:14.0

Siberia is often seen as a place of exile.

0:17.0

Sophie Roberts found pianos that were shipped there over the past few centuries to help the

0:22.0

European Russians feel a little more at home and they still make music today.

0:26.0

The piano, that instrument, provided both a symbolic and a very real connection with what they've left behind.

0:33.0

Coming up, we'll hear what she found, looking for the lost pianos of Siberia.

0:38.0

In Italy, you'll find the action and your friends are often in the town square.

0:42.0

It's like the town square.

0:42.6

It's like the town is a big palace and there the piazza is the living room.

0:48.2

Francis Mays takes us to the heart of the community in the piazza's of Italy.

0:52.3

It's all in the hour ahead on

0:53.7

travel with Rick Steve's. Come along.

0:57.0

There's something special, both in the small towns and in city neighborhoods, that helps to provide a real sense of community in Italy.

1:07.0

On today's travel with Rick Steeves, Francis Mays tells us how the local Piazza is an important part of La Dolchevita.

1:15.0

And Sophie Roberts tells us about her adventure to find a decent piano for a musical prodigy in Mongolia

1:21.0

by searching for the Lost Pianos of Siberia. We'll hear about that in just a bit.

1:25.8

Kings and Queens with real power are a relic of the past in Europe. Most of them today

1:31.0

play ceremonial figurehead roles limited by their constitutions.

1:35.0

In Britain, pools tell us most people are more less supportive of the role the Windsor's play as their royal family.

1:42.0

Their lives are a regular beat for the British press,

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