Season 24

The first episode of Ulisse takes us to Petra, the fascinating city of the Nabataeans, forgotten for centuries and rediscovered only at the beginning of the 19th century. It is the starting point for an itinerary to discover Jordan, a land of merchants, prophets and kings. Here, in a corner of the Jordan River, Jesus was baptized.

In this episode we are in the places where Anna grew up and was happy before her life changed forever. Anna would have liked to study and become a famous writer, but fate chose differently. Her mocking and cruel end, a few days after the arrival of the Allies, will forever leave Anna to her story and the pages of her diary will become pages for eternity.

The story of one of the most famous, fascinating and discussed emperors of Rome: Nerone

In this episode with Alberto Angela we travel through the history of one of the most fascinating cities in the world: first a Greek colony with the name of Byzantium, then with the name of Constantinople, for more than a thousand years the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and for another five hundred of the Ottoman Empire and finally a megalopolis of modern Turkey with the name of Istanbul.

On the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which took place in August 1945, Alberto Angela retraces the fundamental stages of this event that marked the history of humanity.