69 Architecture in your European Travels

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Rick Steves

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

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🗓️ 15 October 2006

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Knowing what's behind the walls, as well as what goes into them, can be quite the illuminating experience. Rick invites architecture professor Kathryn Rogers Merlino from the University of Washington to help make sense of flying buttresses and Roman ruins. And for something exotic, we'll also get a snapshot of what it's like to visit Katmandu, and read our latest round of listeners' travel haiku. For more information on Travel with Rick Steves - including episode descriptions, program archives and related details - visit www.ricksteves.com.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Rick Steeves. Some travelers could care less about architecture.
0:05.8	Roman-ask Gothic burke, it's enough to put them to sleep.
0:09.4	But in the hands of a good teacher, even the most skeptical travelers can become enthusiastic
0:14.5	students of architecture.
0:16.4	Imagine stepping into a Gothic cathedral and being able to excitedly nudge your travel
0:20.4	partner and say, isn't this a marvelous improvement over Romanesque?
0:24.8	Today on Travel with Rick Steves, we're joined by Catherine Rogers Merlino from the University of
0:29.3	Washington.
0:30.3	Catherine will help us make sense of all those flying buttresses, Victorian facades,
0:35.0	and the modern landmarks of innovators like Gaudy and Gary.
0:38.0	And later in the hour, guidebook author Carrie Moran takes us on a mini tour of the ancient city of
0:43.4	Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. She'll fill us in on the exotic and
0:47.6	ever-changing scene at the top of the world. Stay with us, it's Yax and Yeti
0:52.2	and Domes and Arches coming right up on Travel with Rick Steeves.
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1:12.0	American Airlines knows why you fly. I'm Rick
1:15.2	Steves. This is Travel with Rick Steves. Now we're going to learn a little bit
1:18.9	about architecture. Now you may see architecture on a travel show but you know in so many ways appreciating architecture helps you appreciate your travels.
1:26.0	We're going to find out what the big deal is because I've got with me a friend who's a tour guide as well as an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Washington.
1:34.0	She leads their foreign study program in Rome and she's joined us to talk about
1:38.8	architecture appreciation in your travels.
1:41.3	Catherine Rogers Merlino. Catherine, thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. in your
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