A train ride from Rome to Tirano, then Milan up close, for Dan Vineberg
His 730-kilometer rail documentary crosses Florence and Bologna on its way to a mountain town near the Swiss border, and a Paris tower question drew the week's busiest comments.
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100 Hours of Italian Train Travel 🇮🇹 (Full Documentary)
"100 Hours of Italian Train Travel" is exactly the kind of video Dan Vineberg's channel was built for, and the kind his about line promises: no drone shots, just the ride. The full documentary covers 730 kilometers over three days, from Rome through Tuscany to Florence, on to Bologna and Milan, and finally up to Tirano, a mountain town near the Swiss border. The chapters keep it honest, with a stop to work out how to buy tickets and a sprint for a regional train. Milan's station, the description says, is the most beautiful he has ever seen.
Milan got a video of its own four days later. "First Impressions of Milan – Italy's Richest City" walks the parks, the pedestrian streets, the food and the coffee, and in its first 14 hours it was already the fastest-moving thing on The New Travel. Between the two Italian uploads came a detour to France: "Why Would They Build This in Paris?" asks about the Tour Triangle, the glass wedge of a tower planned near the city's edge.
That Paris video drew the liveliest talk of the week. Viewers, some of them writing in French, argue over whether skyscrapers belong in Paris at all, send them off to La Défense, bring up the lonely Tour Montparnasse, and question whether the city even needs more office space. One commenter who sees the tower daily says the trouble is its shape, not its height.
The older Italy material is still working too. "Italy, how many languages do you speak?", street interviews filmed in Rome, Florence and Milan this summer, is now past 270,000 views and keeps drawing viewers nearly a month on.
The channel overall ran a little below its usual pace, with subscribers holding at 405,000. Among travel channels of similar size, Chris Howett had the big week, while Samuel and Audrey and Bus Off with Josie were quieter.
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The comments under "Why Would They Build This in Paris?"
It’s very thin on purpose to be the least visible from the heart Paris which is a good thing.
Plus it’s remote from the historic center.
It’s far less disturbing as Montparnasse or place d’Italie buildings!@neilsarfati3334See it on YouTubeI think modern buildings have a place outside the historic core, as in La Defense of Paris. It's when the older architecture in the core begins to be replaced by newer buildings that change the character of the area that it becomes an eyesore. The Tour Montparnasse is sort of an example of that, but I have to admit that it's rooftop really does have the best view of Paris, especially at night.
@NeddO3See it on YouTubei literally went to Paris at christmas to see that building !! The triangle fits in just go to the modern area and look at the La defense Arch
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Je connais des parisiens très conservateurs qui souhaitent encore la démolition de la tour Eiffel... 😊
@VinceLorentz-md3nbSee it on YouTubeIt's just at the outskirt of Paris in the industrial area where there was nothing before and definitely not the traditional Parisian architecture. If it wasn't that tower it would be something else ugly. It doesn't change anything to the architecture of Paris.
Paris isn't a museum. It's a real city where people live, work, go out etc and they need the infrastructures to be able to do just that.@puccalandSee it on YouTubeLa Tour Triangle would not be a gigantic tower for New York. It's smaller footprint than lots of buildings in New York and half the height of their tallest class of buildings. It's 120m shorter than The Shard in London. It's good that Paris is introducing more depth though, the only reason Montparnasse is so ugly is that it's alone. The thin supertalls on NYCs park have begun to look better with more of them. Sometimes things just need context
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Milan's main railway station, which Dan calls the most beautiful he has seen, is known by what name?
Milano Centrale is Milan's main station, famous for its grand monumental building completed in 1931.
