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In this episode Alberto Angela celebrates Rome's Christmas by accompanying viewers on a fascinating journey through the wonders of imperial Rome: the Rome of the Caesars. Starting from the Mausoleum of Augustus - just reopened to the public after a restoration lasting 14 years - we retrace the fundamental stages that characterized the birth and expansion of one of the greatest empires of all time and we discover how and why the city of Rome in that period reached its maximum splendor.

An exciting journey into 16th century England through the intricate events of King Henry VIII and his six wives, some repudiated, others beheaded. A story of tyranny, blood and betrayal that led to the separation of England from the Church of Rome. We will discover that an epidemic, not too different from the one we are experiencing, kept King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, his lover at the time, separated for a long period, and we will reveal the contents of some handwritten letters from the king to his beloved which are kept today in the Vatican Apostolic Library.

More than twenty years after the first episode of Ulisse, dedicated to the Etruscans, Alberto Angela takes up the thread of that story, accompanying us on the discovery of the places that saw the origins of our history and our civilization. The Etruscans were a refined population, a people of travelers and traders capable of expanding across Italian territory in an organized way and of whom today we can still admire absolute masterpieces as evidence of their greatness.

The fourth episode of this new series of episodes tells the life of Saint Francis and Saint Clare: two boys destined to inherit the honors of their social status but who will realize that that way of life does not satisfy them and will choose a new path: their .

Alberto Angela recounts the long journey of no return of the Jewish women, children and men who on 16 October 1943 were captured in Rome by the SS and taken by train to Auschwitz and other extermination camps.

One hundred and ten years after its sinking, Alberto Angela will accompany us to the places that marked the events of this transatlantic liner, a technical jewel considered "unsinkable", shipwrecked on the night between 14 and 15 April 1912.

A journey into a unique land, in search of the colours, sounds, smells and signs that characterize it. The color of the sea and the stone. The sound of wind and voices. The smell of cistus and helichrysum. The signs of the many civilizations that have invaded it from time to time, without ever dominating it. An island that is almost a continent. From the beaches of Maddalena and Asinara to the mines of Sulcis, from the stones of the nuraghi to the Roman remains, from the basilica of Saccargia to the walls of Alghero, ours will be a tale punctuated by stories, traditions, legends that make this land a magical place and mysterious. We will meet its people, we will listen to its particular language and we will fill our eyes with the color of an incredible sea. The great English traveler Herbert Lawrence defined it thus: "Sardinia is something else... Ridges of hills like moorland... which are disappearing, perhaps, towards a small group of peaks.

The story of the life of one of the most important figures of our time, Queen Elizabeth II, the monarch who reigned longest on the throne of England and the United Kingdom. Alberto Angela accompanies viewers on a journey through time that spans much of the 20th century and reaches the present day, recounting the slow transformation of the image of the monarchy by Elizabeth in the decades of her reign, through the main historical and family facts which have touched the royal house of Windsor until more recent times. With the most beautiful period images, many of which have been restored to their original splendor, viewers will relive the sumptuous royal ceremonies and discover lesser-known aspects of one of the world's oldest and most enduring monarchies. The episode's special guest is the English actress Helen Mirren, an Oscar winner for her portrayal of the queen in the acclaimed film "The Queen".

In this episode of Ulisse, with Alberto Angela, we will immerse ourselves in the atmosphere of the Parisian Belle Époque: years in which the push of science, art and fashion created a society made up of new comforts but which will discover itself to be more fragile than it appears . These were the years of the Impressionists, of Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Van Gogh.

In this episode of Ulisse: what happened to the ancient human species that inhabited Europe and part of Asia before the arrival of Homo Sapiens? Why, at a certain point in prehistory, are there no archaeological traces left of these men of extraordinary strength? And what happens when the two human species come face to face in the same territories? Alberto Angela, in this episode of Ulysses, guides us to the solution of this intricate enigma "at the crime scene" directly from the wonderful places inhabited by Neanderthals and then by Sapiens in Italy and Europe.