San Gimignano, Italy: Towering Hill Town

San Gimignano, with its distinctive skyline, stands like a medieval mirage on its hilltop. With walls built in the 13th century and 12 surviving towers, what was once a stop for pilgrims en route to Rome is now a popular tourist destination. For more information on the Rick Steves’ Europe TV series — including episode descriptions, scripts, participating stations, travel information on destinations and more — visit www.ricksteves.com.
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In this lesson, we meet the Hebrew alphabet for the first time. We learn that the Hebrew alphabet has a very long history. In fact, the Western (Latin) alphabet and the Hebrew alphabet have the same origin. In our lessons, we talk about this development and show how it all started from a drawing of a picture that represented a word, which subsequently evolved into all Latin scripts. From here we learn our first 8 letters: ל/מ/נ/ר, and also the gutturals א/ה/ח/ר.
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