:12:14
Eastward, the Po River
flows down to the Adriatic...
:12:19
...and just north of its mouth,
glorious Venice.
:12:24
This is the Italy of the Renaissance.
:12:29
It was here that Leonardo
first said, "We can fly".
:12:36
Now, we circle the Earth
every 90 minutes...
:12:39
...at 17,000 miles an hour.
:12:43
It's as if we're in a time machine...
:12:45
...looking back across the centuries
at our own history.
:12:53
The boot of Italy.
:13:09
Islands of the Mediterranean,
of Homer's Odyssey.
:13:20
Now on toward Crete,
site of the ancient Minoan culture.
:13:34
The great city of Alexandria...
:13:36
...once the world's center
of learning.
:13:43
The lush delta of the River Nile...
:13:46
...spreading down
to the Mediterranean from Cairo.