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Rick Steves' Europe
Art Bites 108: Greece’s Age of Hellenism
Around 330 BC Alexander the Great spread Greek culture far and wide. The art of the age traded the calm balance of the Golden Age for more exuberance and realism as seen in statues like the Nike of Samothrace.
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Rick visits skyscraper-studded Frankfurt and Nürnberg, capital of the Third Reich.
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Rick visits the two great cities of Saxony: the capital city of Dresden and Leipzig
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We visit Italy's most remote, romantic stretch of the Riviera, from Vernazza to Monterosso