Alberto Angela, 60 candles and the new journey with Ulysses: "The second episode will be dedicated to Sardinia"
"I don't feel like turning 60, but twice 30: after all, age is the equivalent of a license plate stuck to the car, but then what's inside the car and who drives it is a completely different story. "
"I'm back exactly 60 years later in the city where I was born, and it's a great pleasure. I don't feel like turning 60, but twice 30: after all, age is the equivalent of a license plate stuck to a car, but 'it's the car, what's inside, who's driving it, it's a whole other story ".
Alberto Angela is today in Paris on the day of his 60th birthday, on the set of one of the episodes of the new cycle of Ulysses, the pleasure of discovery, broadcast from tomorrow in prime time on Rai1.
The historical, archaeological, popular story of Ulysses more than ever condenses Alberto Angela's passion for research, curiosity towards man and the world. "The feeling not only mine, but of the whole team that works with me - he explains - is that the point of arrival is actually the journey itself: it is not so much the destination that matters, but the way in which you are navigating, the dust you have. on your face and that speaks of your path. At 18 I used to ride an Interrail train and the best thing, upon arriving at a station, was deciding where to go. Being born is winning the ticket of a lifetime, a journey made up of encounters, people, places. And I've never stopped doing it ".
The first stage of the new season of Ulysses is with the night of the Titanic: 110 years after the sinking, on April 15, 1912, "we will try to understand what happened - explains the popularizer - by going to the places that have marked the events of the ocean liner" .
The second episode will be dedicated to Sardinia, "an island that hardly has a leading role: we will give it the visibility of the first evening by offering a sort of sensorial menu, through the color of the sea and the stone, the sound of the wind , the smell of cistus and helichrysum. Without forgetting the strength, pride and tenacity of its people ".
Alberto Angela will then investigate the oldest cold case in history: the disappearance of the Neanderthal. In a journey to the origins of humanity, we will try to understand what happened to the ancient human species that inhabited Europe and part of Asia before Homo sapiens. And then here is Paris and the Belle Epoque: "The focus will be on the Impressionists, who made art independent, until then closed in academies, chasing the light".
60 YEARS OF ALBERTO ANGELA, PHOTOS:
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