MATERA - James Bond and the City of Beige

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[@Nate3417]

Finally, the ultimate camouflage. Lindybeige in the City of Beige.

[@markuskristensen2433]

and he was never seen again

[@PromptCriticalJello]

That's a movie title......I want to see it.

[@christianwetzel2199]

it's probably the reason he traveled there

[@garrysekelli6776]

Wearing some beige colored stuff too.

[@Christopher-N]

It's like _Where's Wally_ / _Waldo?_ in the Land of Wally / Waldo.

[@justanotherarmchairgeneral4240]

Fun Fact: Lindy wasn't born with his distinctive beige colour scheme. He evolved that way in order to better blend in with his natural environment of ancient ruins.

[@michaelkittler6276]

In a hole in the ground there lived an italian. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a Matera hole, and that means comfort.

[@OptimalOwl]

IDK fam, that hole looks pretty dry and sandy to me.

[@MrDUneven]

I wonder if they too hate adventures.

[@TheRealNormanBates]

So... when does Gandalfini show up?

[@victoresan]

@Seth Hultkrantz I didn't

[@jessicascoullar3737]

Vizzy Zilla it is the first paragraph of The Hobbit.

[@ResonantRTS]

The opening is my favourite thing to happen.... just ever

[@imapleb4956]

I love you mate

[@Jesthor]

Lindybeige presents: The Gentleman's way of avoiding copyright strikes/claims.

[@yonneye2427]

Jesthor. Which he shouldn’t even have to do in the first place,(If KZbin was competent) it should go under fair use for being educational.

[@bashkillszombies]

@@yonneye2427 He's not a raving communist, and has an audience. Which means he's a bees dick away from being yeeted for no reason. :(

[@axocopan42]

@@bashkillszombies Agreed, if there's one thing multibillion dollar corporation and capitalist poster child Google is, it's a communist front. It's only a shame that by calling this out you've doomed us both to the Wisconsin gulags. :(

[@julianblake8385]

@@yonneye2427 KZbin competent, that's an oxymoron right there, mate!

[@spartacus5950]

@@bashkillszombies One of the youtube channels I watched recently had to censor an entire video about an artist in the USSR and he's a commie, but please do go on about the supposed benefits communists have on youtube.

[@awatarasakawiraaji2040]

Lindybeige is a good narrator and a good sound effects machine

[@TheSadButMadLad]

Doing a helicopter noise whilst pretending to be hovering over the town is fantastic.

[@etuanno]

I can listen to him explaining any topic for hours.

[@kevfullo]

He can buy a sound effects machine with the advert money from this video. There's about twelve!

[@samholdsworth3957]

He's amazing lol

[@MiguelTyson]

@@kevfullo 😂😂 wah wah

[@fredygump5578]

Property dusputes must have been interesting. I mean, when your neighbor "accidentally" tunnels into your bedroom, or possibly up through the bottom of your cistern....

[@Pystro]

I Imagine your tunneling wouldn't be all that stealthy. I bet if you started to expand towards someone else's property, they would come over and say "Hey, both of us would probably prefer to not hear each other snoring through our separating wall. Isn't there a different direction you can expand to?"

[@aharonvarna5992]

i never quite liked the color beige, but after several years of watching your videos it has warmed to me.

[@andrewharrison1194]

So, beige has warmed to you, but have you warmed to it? ;o)

[@ElijsDima]

No, that's just f.lux

[@TSBoncompte]

@@ElijsDima well done good sir

[@KingOfKent507]

Colour

[@justynh1321]

Colour

[@herlescraft]

I live in Tuscany and i've never heard of Italy untill it got mentioned in a LINDYBEIGE video

[@3vimages471]

Italy? Heard of it.

[@3vimages471]

@King Of The Ring Nurburg Ring?

[@guidor.4161]

It'S gonna be famous soon after this video was out, no doubt...

[@jupp9999]

Never heard of Italy? which is the country Tuscany is in.. lmfao..

[@3vimages471]

@@jupp9999 Are you serious?

[@stumbling]

Talks for 19 minutes about people living in caves... "If you've been living under a massive rock"

[@stumbling]

Baldericci: I have a cunning plan to save the town from the plague, my Lord. We go around town checking if people have caught the plague, and if they've been spared we paint their house white. Vipera Nera: Right? And then what happens if they catch the plague after their houses have been painted? Baldericci: Well, they usually die, Sir.

[@Barberserk]

Upvote for effort.

[@Kenshiroit]

hahaha that was actually good

[@deltavee2]

The adder is black in this one. ~ Bindy Leige

[@giuseppeperniola8432]

Wow! I live just 15 minutes away from Matera. I'm so happy to see our history and landmarks finally being recognized outside our region. Hope you had a great holiday there Lindy :)

[@MaterialMenteNo]

I'm from Matera and I'm giggling. The video is actually good, even unusually good for KZbin (It's Lindy after all)

[@Silen00]

Same. :)

[@GrumpyStormtrooper]

I always see people bashing the EU but if it wasn't for the Union nominating Matera cultural capital for 2019 not many would know about it, and there wouldn't be a thriving tourism economy.

[@ultor__]

@@GrumpyStormtrooper Matera has been mentioned in tourist guides for several decades now. Attributing it's tourist economy to the EU is a fallacy.

[@giuseppeperniola8432]

@@ultor__ Living in the area, I can assure you that tourism exploded since Matera was nominated as a candidate for cultural capital of 2019. Surely Matera did her own big part and was already known but the EU gave quite the boost in the last years. In fact, even my town which is about 30 km away started to fill up with foreign tourists, just renting a room here to visit Matera, something that never happened before 2018/2017. Non to mention all the EU funds we are still getting to boost tourism (which sadly get misused most of the time).

[@irgendwer752]

I think I've got part of the answer to why we like cities with predominantly old buildings. We like a bit of well structured chaos. Make it too plain and it's uninteresting, make it too detailed and we get overwhelmed. You see this with furniture as well. Wait an hour in a modern doctor's office or in an old furnished room with nothing to do but to look at your surroundings.

[@larsruberti]

17:30 let me try to answer a part of that question as someone with some understanding and skill in drawing, perspective and composition: this type of composition Makes objects "stack" on top of eachother instead of behind eachother. This makes sure that the houses stay easily readable (as apposed to have allot of foreshortening and parts of the building blocked off by other buildings). We tend to like images with objects that are easy to interpretate and understand by our brain. This wide angle field of view and "stacked" composition makes the houses more readable than in a normal village or city. Many artists are drawn to Italian clifside landscapes like this. As an example, look at works by MC Escher, you'll see he is inspired allot by this type of perspective and composition! And he isn't the only one! Hope this makes sense.

[@nagualdesign]

It's irritating when people write _alot,_ but _allot?!_ It's *_a lot._*

[@larsruberti]

@@nagualdesign thanks!

[@jimmosio]

"The inability of the region to organise its public transport was impressive." Apulians/Lucans: "Yes."

[@mechjack]

Just saw MC. Escher! Right up round corner!

[@KoeriKunST]

I mean, most of public transportation building effort was before the 90's under the DC and PSI rule. It was more of a national government decision than a local one back then (no federalism laws had been implemented by then AFAIK)

[@rambo8wradio]

Americans: "What?"

[@petergreg101]

Lowers voice and whispers conspiratorially 'Do you like... buttresses?' *sweats intensely

[@Jj-pm5yv]

🤦🏻‍♂️😂

[@unrealdev5178]

Got any... flying ones?...

[@Peterowsky]

"There are Seashells in the ceilings to confuse christians." Gold.

[@Eskon2]

Just for those denying the historicity of Genesis and the flood.

[@slinky6481]

It's to test our faith, obviously! But seriously, most Christians nowadays accept a much, much older Earth than before. It was really only a medieval misunderstanding that led to the notion of a young Earth. Genesis is even worded in such a way that suggests that the world was already around when God created everything. So it's a matter of interpretation. Doesn't really change anything theologically.

[@lalystar4230]

I still don't get the joke.. xD Why would that confuse Christians? I mean, obviously God intended those seashells to be there to make the limestone no? xD They could also be remnants of the great flood? I mean, I'd imagine the church would be able to come up with some kind of clarification that would stroke with their view of the scriptures and beliefs and all that?

[@Likexner]

@@lalystar4230 Ideologues will always find _some_ kind of explanation. Its pointless to reason with ideologies.

[@davidcyrilbrown]

Talking about local transport I was in Cyprus back in the 90's with some Cypriot Friends (handy as I can't speak Greek) While on the local bus, the other passengers (locals) started shouting at the driver, because he was taking a completely different route to the one advertised. Apparently he was making a detour to pick up a few things for his grandmother and needed to deliver them to her.

[@sir_humpy]

I say that's one lucky grandmother to have such an obliging grandchild.

[@deltavee2]

Europeans are just so much more relaxed about many things than other parts of the world.

[@abdallahmanasrah2317]

If you ever set foot in a med traditional house, you will feel clearly the supperiority of those huge heatsink of houses. Humid and cool in the dry and hot summers, and reasonably balanced and warm in the cold humid winters. And when the thermal lag catches up to the weather, you are sure to have a great weather outside, where everyone gathers to share a cup of tea and a few stories, till the heatsink catches up with the weather again, and you are granted a lazy morning with great indoor climate.

[@abdallahmanasrah2317]

The only other two good options of a good dwelling space is either to have a highly insulated modern heated and cooled space, or believe it or not, a tent and a some heavy clothing, the structure being extreamly thin breaks the sun and wind and allows you with extreamly low resources to heat and cool yourself with nothing but a small fire, heavy clothing, and regulating your own activities

[@JesseP.Watson]

@@abdallahmanasrah2317 Yes, we seem to have forgotten about the advantages of building underground - I was thinking the other day that perhaps the next 'revolution' in homes would be to move underground (so much better for heating and energy efficiency) - it's time someone invented a better way of drilling into rock, we need a nice, quiet plasma-cutter or laser-cutter ... or something that anyone can use to dig undergrounds with... or, at least, that's what I was day dreaming about. :-)

[@mrpearguy8455]

British "Indiana Jones" and the lost city of Beige.

[@scrubsrc4084]

Lindiana Beige

[@alisaurus4224]

*LINDYana Jones

[@andersaxmark5871]

Nickylindy Lloyd

[@isengard1500]

Lindyana Jones and the Kingdom of the Negative Architecture

[@Warmaka]

I like "Lindiana" or "Lloydiana" -Beige

[@Akm72]

37:30 Doctor: "Sorry Bob, you've got the plague" Bob: "Damn it, now I'm going to have to paint my house beige again! I only just finished painting it white!!"

[@AvrahamYairStern]

Just came back from the new James Bond movie that has finally come out and I just wanted to return to the video to say this again: Matera is absolutely beautiful.

[@davideborroni3875]

23:40 Welcome to Italy, where people in tourist information centers barely speak English and/or tell you the basic informations

[@FedeDiver1]

That's not true at all, in the main tourist destinations there are no problems finding info or communicating...Matera was always a small rural town, and only in the past few years has started welcoming visitors, just give them some time and don't be so melodramatic

[@davideborroni3875]

@@FedeDiver1 Matera counts 60k citizen, not really a small rural town. In 1993 the city was added on the list of UNESCO world heritage centres and in 2019 it has been European capital of culture. They should keep up with the fame they got.

[@FedeDiver1]

@@davideborroni3875 Matera is a city and does not represent an entire country...besides, I went there and it looked to me they were managing well, I've also seen other videos of foreneirs who did not have any issue, not sure what happened to this guy but it sounds a bit too extreme

[@davideborroni3875]

@@FedeDiver1 @23:40 that's what happened to him. Maybe they were just two isolated cases, but their job was to provide tourist information of the town they are located in to a foreign tourist and they both failed...that's quite embarrassing. Anyway, good for you if you've never had any problem

[@Siledas]

"There are seashells in the ceiling to confuse Christians" You can't just make jokes like that without any preamble. Now I have to mop up all this tea that I just spit out.

[@ruben307]

can you explain what seashells have to do with Christians?

[@krayzoman]

@@ruben307 Unless I misunderstood the joke, any archaeological evidence of things forming, changing, or moving over vast periods of time (such as seashells turning into limestone that ends up far above modern sea level) goes into the whole Creationism debate. The Christian version puts creation much sooner than the amount of time many of those processes would take.

[@danielpenaranda5888]

Devil puts fosil in strange places so we conclude wrong things like evolution

[@SyoaranBarker]

Not all Christians believe what is termed "Young Earth Creationism." Many ascribe to "Old Earth Creationism," and accept the age of Earth and the universe while disputing the explanatory power of the evolutionary model, while others go for "Theistic Evolution" and accept both, believing that evolution happened by/required God's guiding hand. If anything, the YEC's are considered something of an embarrassment by the other two camps, who tend to get along with each other while the YEC's attack everyone not in their bubble.

[@RowdyRory]

Too funny. Very witty.

[@alexandersibilio7436]

I don't think "legends" ever needed to make sense!! In Puglia everyone knows that Ostuni is covered in lime (notorious antibacterial) as protection for its delicate stones and to keep them cool during the hot summers! I also think we love old towns and villages because they shows us our ingenuity "carved" out of necessity.😉 which also reminds us of an era when we were able to understand more our environment and make the most out of it.

[@TheBradleyClarke]

Can we just have a series of LindyBeige dubbed James Bond trailers? With vehicle/gun noises included (done by Lindy)

[@OMGWTFBBQRLY]

Lloyd should be in charge of sound effects for every trailer.

[@luminescentcore]

As a Brit I can imagine how uncomfortable the weather must be for you

[@oyblech8671]

impressive endurance, it has to be said! I'm italian and I'd just melt on the spot if I were to go this far south.

[@piotrcarafa7993]

My grandfather lives in Matera, it's not so unbearable, tho I can see y it would be a bit... harsh I guess

[@piotrcarafa7993]

@Lorenzo Panza Don't worry, I know what he meant, I don't live there, in fact I live in Abruzzo. I'm half Polish and when I have to travel to see relatives the difference in climate is quite evident. I apologize if I intervened badly, it was not my intention to belittle Lindybeige.

[@joek600]

Im Greek it looks like home

[@tom-qd7mc]

Milan is much hotter than Potenza...

[@Sharklops]

6:57 - The tires sync up with the camera frame rate and it looks like the tractor is sliding along the ground. Really tripped me out at first lol

[@j.mbarlow5952]

the wheels are fake. all their vehicles have holes in the floor so you can pick it up and run, like the Flintstones

[@Sharklops]

@@j.mbarlow5952 well now I feel like a yabba dabba fool.

[@Zaysaki]

29:57 "but it was alright, because just across the road in the kiosk, OH JOY, they had the latest issue of playbo- i mean mussolini magazine..."

[@jacopoarmini7889]

That misunderstanding was indeed quite silly! That's a historical magazine, the word Mussolini just happened to be bigger than the title to attract readers.

[@guidodelpapa3875]

I moved to Matera on February (right before the lockdown) and the Sassi keep impressing me, even if I take a walk almost every day through its alleys and narrow passages... and I keep discovering new ones. There's a part of the Sassi that is closed off (the southernmost part), but for some reason the metal door and planks that blocked the way was open a few weeks ago, so it was nice to visit yet another part of the city that used to be off limits. Now it's closed again :/ Btw, the path leading to the other side of the valley was reopened on July, after 3 years of being closed due to safety concerns. It takes about 1h to get to the top of the other side, where you can visit the caves/houses and churches carved into the mountain. And you're right about public transportation, it's quite inefficient, but even private companies have a very limited offer of destinations and weird schedules. I don't own a car, so to leave the city I need to take the 2h train to Bari (the closest city with an airport, although there are buses directly to the airport). I still cannot find any way of getting to Castelmezzano and Pietrapetrosa by public transportation as a day trip, and not even to Craco, which is even closer. I might have to take a guided tour departing from Matera.

[@fredo1070]

The Gospel According to St Matthew and the Passion of the Christ was filmed there.

[@peartart]

"And then I had some gelato and stopped griping." Half of this was very Italian of you.

[@iota-09]

Now the question is:will he be able to guess which half?

[@j.mbarlow5952]

neither of these things are particularly British

[@iota-09]

@@j.mbarlow5952 yet one of the two is also very much not italian

[@SordoBjorn]

@@iota-09 Is it griping in the first place (@ second comment)?

[@iota-09]

@@SordoBjorn if anything, stopping griping.

[@maybemaeb]

Again, you accomplished the incredible feat of making one's tourist footage interesting to watch. Hats off.

[@donna30044]

Why are we so often drawn to views of old communities such as Matera? Perhaps the age and organic "togetherness" of such scenes pique something in us that yearns for reminders of community, continuity, and stability -- a connectedness, if you will, of the past, present, and future. Maybe we see in these places something which comforts us and gives us hope that our existence is not so fleeting and that something of us will be memorialized for generations centuries ahead. Or it may be that there is something in the seeming simplicity of the scene that contrasts appealingly with the complexity, or even absurdity, of the creation of that tableau that intrigues both our intellects and our artistic sensibilities in ways we rarely find in nature -- a self-affirmation of our humanity and humaness found in the order and reason within the seeming chaos. Whatever it is which draws our eyes to such scenes and holds us spellbound, it is something we all seem to have, inherited through generation after generation. We do it because we are compelled to by forces and instincts ancient beyond retrievable memory. Isn't it wonderful?

[@MolemanITA]

And that, folks, is how Minas Tirith was built.

[@BigBadBlackWallPaper]

i live in Mardin a city from Turkey and there is a neighborhood looking like this city and they are beige too and they have caves in their houses too and people still live in there. i always wondered why my city is at very high place thank you for educating me :). sorry for bad english

[@bluemountain4181]

While I was in Turkey I went to Derinkuyu near Kayseri which has a very impressive underground city. I think there must be quite a lot in the mountainous regions of Anatolia.

[@jacobwright5542]

Maybe the mini-ramps on the staircase are askew to lessen the gradient and prevent runaway carts.

[@messidiminuto]

A couple of months ago, I was backpacking through the south of Italy. If it wasn't for this video, I would have not known Matera and subsequently visited it. Thanks, Lindy!

[@calamusgladiofortior2814]

I’d imagine the people of Matera were both relieved and slightly insulted that Rome never bothered to conquer them... Materan ruler: “Matera will never surrender!” Roman tribune: “Sure, whatever. Alright, let’s go boys. Move out.” Materan ruler: “Wait. You’re not even going to try conquering us?” Roman tribune: “Nope, not worth it. Lucky day for you.” Materan ruler: “You guys literally marched hundreds of miles to conquer a bunch of barbaric Gauls and Britons, but you won’t conquer us? What’s wrong with Matera?” Roman tribune: “I mean... it’s just a bunch of holes in the ground, isn’t it?” Materan ruler: “They’re very nice holes, I will let you know, sir. You’d be lucky to conquer us.” Roman tribune: “Nope, sorry. Going to go conquer Egypt instead. At least their beige rocks have got funny animal heads on and such.”

[@Kenshiroit]

hahahahahaha

[@hereticdude2788]

Thanks, Lindybeige, you've made me feel like an abomination. I'd take the views of the mountainside over a city (regardless of age) anytime.

[@blandedgear9704]

Skulls all over the temple? Sounds like the Imperium of Man I know.

[@robinderoos1166]

All thats missing are flying skulls holding candles...

[@farmerboy916]

@@robinderoos1166 Hm... y'know, we could make that happen now if we found a powerful yet small enough drone and programmed it to automatically return to base to recharge at regular intervals. Now all we need is to pipe in chants loud enough to cover up the drone whirring, and we're golden.

[@ieuanhunt552]

The explanation as to why the Imperium loves skulls so much is quite wholesome for 40K. Basically it shows that even in its barest form humanity is still beautiful. And if you strip everything away we are all the same underneath.

[@wytfish4855]

@@ieuanhunt552 so khorne is a closeted human admirer?

[@ieuanhunt552]

@@wytfish4855 as a trophy yes. He is an admirer of anything that puts up a decent fight.

[@knightshousegames]

I think the appeal of the view of a city like that is that it straddles the line between amazing man made technological marvel and something natural and organic. It's a technological marvel because though rather low tech, it showcases elegant designs specifically adapted to their environment, that through a sort of natural selection have managed to survive since time immemorial. But at the same time, it has that organic feeling precisely because it wasn't meticulously planned out and instead sort of got thrown together catch as catch can, from the landscape itself, with the patterns that emerge from the layout of the buildings shaped directly by nature itself in a way.

[@JasonLaneZardoz]

I went there in about 2015, the whole region of Basilicata is underrated and unexplored. Potenza, the capital is well worth a visit. Very interesting public transport system, comprised of a massive escalator system. Also home to some of the most attractive ancient Greek coinage

[@theamazingengineer1901]

I’m still waiting on LindyBond! Licensed to Beige...

[@omariscovoador7486]

It reminds me of some favelas here in brazil, but with a more rocky and beyge looking.

[@theinqov]

I can relate to the joys of bus timetables. Here in Manila I had fun the first time I tried to catch a bus was amusing. "What time does the bus leave?" "For a while, Sir." It turns out that 'for a while' simply means 'wait' as she was busy and went away to do something more important, like eat her snack, and as there are no bus timetables for short distance trips she had no idea what I was asking anyway; the question simply did not exist to her. It was as foreign to her as me not being able to understand that there is no schedule.

[@Miata822]

Fascinating. My experiences with Italian rail have been much the same. Once in the '70s a bomb stopped my train not far from there. People forget there were lots of random bombs all over Europe back then.

[@arx3516]

You mean IRA, Red Brigades, ETA and corsican terrorists right?

[@fus132]

29:47 Did a quick map search. The name is Chiesa del Purgatorio (Church of the Purgatory). Direct East, slightly North from the unfinished castle.

[@smoketinytom]

Ah yes, the lovely voice of Lindy. Only comparable to Mark Felton, for the countless videos you can keep watching! Might even learn something as you go!

[@BernardTheMandeville]

Drachinifel is up there as well for me

[@JohnyG29]

Urg...M Felton has an awful voice imo.

[@smoketinytom]

JohnyG29 Well, he’s better than what “History” channel is pumping out.

[@gwtpictgwtpict4214]

@@smoketinytom Agreed, but he does use the word 'daring' too much. I would argue that anything that involves the potential of being shot at is daring, and WWII basically involved the potential to be shot at so the use of the word is superfluous. A minor point but it bugs me. His content is generally pretty good.

[@smoketinytom]

@@gwtpictgwtpict4214 If that's what bugs you, then you need to check you priorities.

[@psup8]

In 2003 I moved off grid in Spain ..and I know a place nearby far more special and similar in Spain .where the houses are built in the side of a canyon .with a castle on top ..its amazing you would just drive right passed it if you didn't know but I can't tell you or it wouldn't be special anymore ,but great and fascinating feature as usual ,brilliant thank you .

[@bobbelcher6742]

I think the reason we like those views is because of the detail, the buildings, roads, staircases, all of that is visible. Its like those 3/4 view paintings of towns but in real life.

[@zachariaszut]

The City of Beige... a collection of enlarged entrances to... cisterns. How lively is that? How refreshing!

[@ScoriacTears]

7:20 Beige complexity. Hiding water from the sun. City of grottoes.

[@richardmycroft5336]

This was delightful. I love the fact that the tourist office and the bus office didn't seem to know much of anything at all between them. Thanks very much.

[@harryedmondson9382]

I've never clicked on a notification so quickly

[@theturkey1523]

Same

[@wellhelodeer2680]

I’m not even a hardcore fan but I have to admit I clicked it as soon as I seen it too.

[@philpexmelnni3834]

Yeah I waited so long for this

[@JohnyG29]

Do you record your past click times? I assume you must or else how can you be sure?

[@tomtom21194]

@yeoldebiggetee he's pissing blood again

[@Harry-cv3sg]

I need a feature-length remake of this film using Lindybeige's cinematic prowess

[@jacopomangini3036]

If anyone is interested in Materan (and Lucanian, and South Italian in general) culture in the 50s, read Ernesto De Martino's works: he did field research in the area, and in his diary (not sure if the english translation of his book "Sud e Magia" has his diary included) he talks about, among other things, the horrible living conditions in the Sassi in the early 1950s.

[@wwoods66]

17:35 "Why do humans prefer the sight of something like that? ... Now, granted, they are _beige...."_

[@francescolella4224]

I actually live in Matera, I see this everyday

[@RedK11]

6:53 crazy how fast that was going considering the wheels weren't moving

[@_mwk]

These people were doing Minecraft well before Minecraft...

[@walrus1074]

Human history is divided as: Minecraft Era and Pre-Minecraft Era

[@CarthagoMike]

Ah yes, that ending advice reminded me of when I climbed mount Vesuvio, many years ago. I was with a travel group, and one of the ladies was wearing high heels. She tried, I give her that, but needless to say she never reached the top.

[@alifesh]

"SO MUCH BEIGE" he screamed from top of his lungs, looking down on the town from a helicopter before he ...

[@fats3342]

I know "soft rock" is a perfectly legitimate descriptor, but it's still really funny to hear.

[@stumbling]

Status Quo

[@troublewithweebles]

Anything with a drum kit, electric guitar and a saxophone is probably soft rock.

[@deetvleet]

The use of undeground cisterns for water storage couldn't help but remind me of the Fremen of Dune

[@peterjf7723]

There are similar house fronts with caves behind that go back into the hillside in the Cappadocia region of Turkey. In the early 1960 someone there was doing work in his basement and discovered an abandoned city that could have housed about 8000 people and went down eight levels. There are several such cities in the area, one was discovered around 2013 when workers widening a road cut into a hillside and discovered another abandoned subterranean city.

[@sebastianestrada4690]

I remember studying an intervention project done there for the conservation of built heritage. My profesor at architecture school worked for that proyect and seeing the plans for the consolidation of the structures was really nice. They basically had to drill large holes in some points to pass some really big tensor cables that will suport all of the "caves" just as a circus tent suports itself, and lots of other interventions. The project was an effort from an international team, my professor being mexican.

[@Bready_Player_Bun]

"How do you like being a negative architect?" "I hate it."

[@Gizmomadug]

You are in a comfortable tunnel like hall. To the east is a round green door. You see: a wooden chest Gandalf. Gandal is carrying a curious map.

[@hartmannyosef3244]

x chest

[@MrJJSimonds]

...the eye, loves detail.... the mind, likes order.... the heart loves passion.

[@music_YT2023]

The expansive Beige, Flying Buttresses, meandering asymmetry, remarkable cisterns, maze-like passageways and ground that is completely unsafe for high heels. Covering all the bases for us Lloyd!

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

You might be surprised. Being punched in the face by a florist doesn't smell much like flowers at all. It does taste kind of like metal.

[@TacticalSandals]

I cant speak for everyone but personally I like how it looks because it looks like the City Planner was M.C Esher.

[@thedevilinthecircuit1414]

I think these sorts of villages appeal to the beholder because the construction exceeds the boundaries of 'normal' quaintness. It harkens back to a time when life was simple (harder, really)--without the trappings of modernity such as electricity and indoor plumbing. It's the pure uniqueness that sparks the imagination of the viewer and draws them in. The Greek islands and Malta are very similar in nature. I think it's why filmmakers chose Malta as the location for the 1980 film Popeye--the vertical aspects of the landscape against the sea and whimsical architecture lent heavily to the storybook fairy tale appearance of the film. Great video!

[@JonTanOsb]

That head stone, er, stone head, was spooky at night. Bond in beige. If tuxedos come in colours other that black and white, maybe you can get a beige one. Jon in rural BC, Canada

[@robinderoos1166]

Ooh! A deathcult who put skulls everywhere! I must go there, for the Emperor!

[@nanoreaper5002]

"It's oh so Beige" best line in the whole video

[@Perktube1]

0:53 - That's a lotta beige. Quite the contrast to Greece. 16:41 - Wow, quite the breakfast nook. 29:50 - Games Workshop wants to investigate your location. 30:06 - like being punched in the face by a florist. 🤣😂

[@zippy5131]

After spending two weeks in Lecce on exercise I can fully understand what your on about. But what a beautiful and stunning place, I loved the whole two weeks thank you MOD........

[@commentingpausedtoprotectus]

My day has been improved already:)

[@ReidBallardIII]

Lindybeige going on about tunneling into the hill struck up a strong desire to play Minecraft in me

[@ravenwarjoy]

I think the appeal of seeing cities like that, carved into rock in a matter less ordered, and more forced upon us by the layout of the rocks, is because we, humans, really like civilisation. Civilisation is, after all, really good for us. And to see that it can arise in such places is both astonishing and empowering to us. To know that not only are we safe, surrounded by fellow smart apes, but also to know that despite all obstacles, we've built ourselves shelter and community.

[@neur303]

Thank you Lindybeige for all the details! You make it so interesting and enjoyable! Your enthusiasm is infective ❤️

[@lorisuprifranz]

The tourist information centers of my city ( Ravenna, that got the second place during the contest for European Culture Capital) whould have done a way better job. We are less shoody with English and our buses are always on time ... I am not believable, am I? Yea I dont believe it, either

[@elkudos6262]

Oh, Lindybeige. A man refusing to be even remotely sorry for being so unapologetically English.) Like, Subscribe and Share!

[@stevereed2788]

Why do we prefer the view of the city as opposed to the natural landscape? The natural landscape could be viewed by a scientist for the history of its geology, the climate, length of time of human habitation, etc., while most individuals will view it with a mind toward an aesthetic context, but the city on the opposite side contains thousands of individual buildings each containing an individual context, perhaps 100 generations of family history with context affixed to the political, social and natural history surrounding that dwelling: The sheer volume of information is 1000-fold greater and more easily observable as compared to the cliffs upon the opposite side. The brain will automatically lock onto the intense volume of data as a magnet to iron filings and try to place the data into an understandable context. What attracts your attention more; a page with a couple of words, or a full page, even if you don’t read it? Dear Lindybeige, Thank you for the wonderful videos! You are a national treasure!

[@SordoBjorn]

Here in Belgium on the dutch border (a stone's throw from the city of Maastricht... fun bit of trivia: that city was once one of the most robust strongholds in the whole of europe... in the age of gunpowder it even WAS a starfort with multiple layers of older defences outside of it, D'Artagnan, yes that one, died there when the french besieged it in 1673) is a small town called 'Kanne' where people have built with 'negative architecture' as well in the side of small hillls that are mostly made up of a particularly soft kind of chalk stone, which was also mined for use in construction in the area (including the houses in front), but seeing as this area is about as rainy as England, there is a lack of cisterns (the fact that a major river flows right by it likely also has something to do with it) Other fun fact: one of those hills served as a NATO HQ during the cold war (1954-1992) the part @28:00 about the castle, the Count and how only one of them got finished has to be one of the best ways to describe Italians to an alien race: Count: I am you new ruler, and you are all my subjects People: Sure, ok... Count: So about those taxes- People: oh nononononoooo... not again (sound of bladed weapons being drawn)

[@techpriest8965]

1960 hehe. Well, life in the Mediterranean countries was rather simple. Some would say romantic. Lack of heavy industry and focus on farming, fishing and livestock. Grapes and olives. And poetry. Across the Adriatic sea, in Croatia there are many preserved houses that display similar tools, furniture and setup. Well, not exactly like these ones in the caves but you know what I mean.

[@Poldovico]

1960 was the economic boom, following the post-war reconstruction and taking advantage of the heavy industry the fascists had built up for their war effort. The italian 1960 were Vespa, Fiat 500 and giant blocky concrete apartment buildings painted funny colours ruining the coastines.

[@dj_koen1265]

Life was better then in those peaceful parts of the world

[@Stettafire]

23:23 Greetings. I am your 0.00000000001% female audience :D

[@lindybeige]

I must introduce you to my other female viewer. Chances are you'll have so much in common.

[@tearoses1959]

That must be me then, pleased to meet you.

[@MSK81]

Apparently there are more of us than one would think. Hello :)

[@professionalairhead5642]

Yes, hello. I just found this channel.

[@bashkillszombies]

Ok, clearly half of you are phony. Bobs and vegana right now as proof.

[@WisdomThumbs]

The city is as beautiful and artful as the landscape beside it.

[@DRMEEKS]

Absolutely excellent delivery as always, well done I found this highly entertaining and informative. Thank you sir.

[@AidanMcGhie]

it's like being punched in the face by a florist hahah

[@MrGonzonator]

25:00 Is that the Cistern Chapel?

[@its1110]

Fooooooooooo...

[@SolidNeodark]

I love these travel videos. Thank you so much for giving us a sneak peek at these awesome locations.

[@jonathanwaswrong3917]

So beautiful... I did get misty eyed... Thank you! I enjoyed the tour! God bless you brother

[@Marcus_McCormick11]

I really hate how youtube has started adding adverts to every video automatically.

[@johntowner1893]

First I guessed 1842, then I realised we were talking about Italy, and changed my guess to 1952. That’s not meant to be a joke, honestly that’s what I thought.

[@iota-09]

A sound reasoning

[@jorehir]

It's not about Italy as much as that very specific part of Italy.

[@adrianwebster6923]

I really appreciate the soundwork on these videos. Leaving in the ambient sounds, echos etc. lets the viewer really feel a sense of place. No unnecessary editing, no distracting music etc. Bravo.

[@MustafaKulle]

Fantastic video, Nikolas. Thank you. I would love to see more of your Beige Travelogue.