Europe From Above Series 1

This spectacular aerial journey reveals the innovations that made the tiny Netherlands a technological powerhouse.  Flying high over historic windmills, futuristic greenhouses, modern turbines and floating homes we reveal the Netherland’s battle for space to live on and grow food. Weird looking forts provide a glimpse of this nation’s struggle for independence, and bizarre New Year’s traditions bare its community spirit.

This spectacular aerial journey reveals Italy as we’ve never seen it before. Cameras swoop over the treasures of ancient Rome, fly alongside dredger in Venice and get a bird’s eye view of Sicily’s ladder top fishermen.  We look down on daring scientists as they climb Italy’s Etna volcano, we see bizarre vibrating forks at work in Puglia’s olive groves and we race around an ice track in the high Alps at the world’s strangest supercar school.

This spectacular aerial journey reveals Germany as we’ve never seen it before. Cameras swoop over a factory the size of a city, fly alongside a record-breaking cable car and get a bird’s eye view of the largest land vehicle on the planet. But this is a country with a quirky side. We’ll fly through a tropical resort inside a vast disused airship hangar, and tour 10 tiny islands where residents have their own personal trains.

This spectacular aerial journey reveals The United Kingdom, as we’ve never seen it before. Flying camera’s soar over the Giant’s Causeway as jet-ski litter pickers tidy up the coast. Daredevil gardeners handle chainsaws while hanging from the Eden Project roof and we glide through the London skyline as one of the city’s tallest skyscrapers gets a spring clean.

This spectacular aerial journey reveals Spain, as we’ve never seen it before. Flying cameras soar over the Sagrada Familia as architects work around the clock to finish the building. Daredevil barnacle hunters rappel down jagged cliffs to hunt for one of the world’s most exclusive shellfish and we glide over one of the world’s greatest abandoned buildings nestled deep in Spain’s northern mountains.

This spectacular aerial journey reveals Poland as we’ve never seen it before. Flying cameras swoop over the largest castle in the world, zoom through fireworks over Krakow, and witness the struggles of European Bison, the largest land animal in Europe. This bird’s eye view of Poland also reveals a nation undergoing an astonishing transformation - in Warsaw Poles are hard at work building what will become the tallest building in the EU.