Why Is There a Scottish Village In Italy? 🇮🇹
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- Опубліковано 11 чер 2024
- The Italian Alps, home to countless quintessential Italian villages…and one not-so traditional. Welcome to Gurro, the Scottish village in Italy.
So what actually makes this village Scottish? Legend has it that the population descended from Scottish soldiers, who stumbled across the area whilst fleeing a battle 500 years ago. But it’s not just their supposed ancestors flying the Scottish flag - the inhabitants today wear traditional tartan, grab drinks in their local Scottish bar and they even mix Scottish into their language…Ay, can you believe it!
These are the Italian locals keeping this delightfully unexpected Scottish tradition alive.
#Scotland #Italy #Travel
00:00 Intro
00:51 Meet Rosa Patritti
01:09 Folklore
01:54 Traditional Dress
02:18 Language
03:01 Music
04:00 Food
Lead Producer - Jacob Harrell
Executive Producer - Gen Ingham
Assistant Producer - Giulia Ausani
Editor: Jacob Harrell
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What is the Scottish sound track used at 2:38
2:38
YES!
@@dolphincrescent54Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
As a south Italian its Scotland.. Edinburgh in particolare,England and Ireland..whole UK really. And Hobbiton in new Zealand.
I’m from Scotland. And this makes me so proud and it literally brought a tear to my eye. My great uncle was in WW2 as a pilot and he was transferring food etc to a small village in Italy called Ostana but unfortunately my great uncles planet crashed due to poor weather conditions. The Italian villagers gathered up the remains and made a grave for him and his crew members. They marked them as hero’s and for many years my grandad didn’t know what happened to his brother that night and in 2001 they discovered this. It’s such a beautiful story. God bless the Italians 🩷🇮🇹🏴
Much more better than Scotland it's self much more better much more better
@@davis70140 what ? You’ve clearly never really went to Scotland haha
He is a bot stooge@@alexahenderson1044
@@davis70140 STOP spamming these posts with that racist sh#t !!!
aye yee your you bell end their is to much racism in Scotland my parents disowned me because I fell in love with my Jamaican child hood sweet my scotish parents spit at my child hood sweet heart at school when she was 5 years old and she would become my future wife and I don't even want know parents any more they just up set I remember holding my twin daughter and sun in front of them they just took no notice and my heart just sunk and in itlay its about being big loving happy family with lots of food and you don't know me my mum put a 2 barrel shot gun under my sisters chin when she found out sister was dating the brother of my child hood sweet heart in life you get some good apples and some bad apples
As a Scottish lass myself I can hear our accent in her voice and she even looks like a wee Scottish granny, historically we used songs to pass legends on down through time so it seems plausible... i would love to visit this place ❤
The way she pronounces 'no, no, no' at the beginning sounds Scottish to me.
I'll come with 👍😘🤌
Her hair looks dyed
@@revjimbobthat's just italian
there no scottish accent in this northen italian accent tbh.
As an Italian, thank you for not including the mandolin in your musical column!
occhio all'inglisc
@@QuestLink dont vuorri
Naa, when we don't speak Scottish in those parts we speak the "alt deutsch" of the Walser. In the Cannobina valley, when they see a mandolin they ask what it is for..... Comunque grazie di averci evitato i mandolini 🤣
Il mandolino non c'entra un cazzo con il Piemonte
Bro bastava dire soundtrack o background music
In Scotland there are many Italian families who opened cafes. There are also a number of Scottish people with Italian family backgrounds who became famous like Paulo Nutini, Lewis Capaldi, Peter Capaldi and Nicola Benedetti.
Scottish traced they origins from Hungarian-MacAr-Scythian whom as such lived and live in a much larger area.For western Scythians where a Finno-Ugric meaning Finnish-Hungarian alliance from which Hungarian-Macar-Scythian where a Gál-Gaelic-Gaul while Eastern Scythians where more Turkic .
Gál-Gaelic-Gaul appeared and moved between Portugal,BenGal and Mongolia and so have connected Iberian Peninsula with Caucasian Iberian Kingdom and Siberia which is why Scottish-Irish genetics appears in this Scythian region like Hindu-Kush,Iran,Middle East....and Italy for they where a Hun-Han which is a name and so a identity just as title of nobility with its religious significance.
Dario Franchitti, Paul Di Resta, Ken Stott, Sharleen Spiteri….
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi!
About 80% of chip shops in glasgow are owned by people of italian origin
Giovanni ( Johnny ) Moscardini,born in Falkirk,Scotland,but played football for Italy 9 times scoring 7 goals.
I can confirm Rosa made me (an Englishman) wear a kilt whilst filming this! Sorry to all my Scottish friends! 😅
And why we not treated to such a lusty sight at any point in the video...? Thanks to Rosa, to Great Big Story, and to Jacob for bringing us this interesting tale. Ciao!
@@Mark723 I have a feeling it might be posted on Instagram at some point 😂
@@JacobHarrell That is almost enough of a reason to register for an Instagram account. Jacob, so good to hear your voice! I am very much looking forward to your next adventure, though you'll have to come up with something extraordinary to compete with your kayak adventure...or, should that be escape? My best to the missus.
@JacobHarrell Welcome back, Jacob! Great to hear your voice again! Looking forward to more fascinating tales on Great Big Story!
Why are you sorry? Stick it back in next time you are at a wedding. Surprisingly good for pulling
Sending warm greetings from Scotland and thank you for looking after our wandering sons.
Much more better than Scotland it's self much more better much more better
@@davis70140no one asked.
@@DWLADS so you know a dead secret behind peanuts 🥜 and ducks ride moter bikes at night time
@@davis70140 you’ve done your nut son
As an italian, sentence construction and some elements of pronounciation in the lady's speech actually remembers me of how english (or scottish in this case I suppose) speaking people tend to speak when they speak italian as foreigners
la signora parla molto bene e si sente molto i suoi accenti britannici, comunque ha fatto un buon lavoro il creatore del video per tradurlo
I hear Italian words with Scottish accent, I am English!
Am no arsed
Their ancestors would have spoke Gaelic not English
@@jhnfjhh7037 I have no idea how different a gaelic Person trying to speak italian would sound so
In my hometown, Piacenza, there is a neighborhood dedicated to Saint Brigid of Ireland, where the city's Scota (gaels) community lived.
The most important historical figure of Piacenza is Alberto Scotti, lord of the city between the end of the 1200s and the beginning of the 1300s, and he was of Gaelic origins.
Near Piacenza there is the sanctuary with the tomb of Saint Columbanus, and during the Middle Ages it was a pilgrimage destination for all the Gaels who traveled the Via Francigena
So much history we don't know , it needs added in schools, local history is as important , normal folk history
@@marinarassin4231 I agree with you.
I also like the history of names... you have a beautiful name, Marina in Latin means "daughter of the sea"
@@geridelbello4480 thank you, I was told it's safe haven , the name came from the famous hitsong by rocco granata
@@geridelbello4480like many other Italian songs, Marina by Rocco Granata went ugly popular over the world
I visited the tomb of Saint Colombanus in Bobbio a few years ago.I'm Irish living near Milan.I didn't know about the St.Brigid neighbourhood in Piacenza though.I must visit.
i'm italian and i don't knew this history,thanks very much for this
Never heard about this until now! Love to our Scottish/Italian brothers and sisters!
Blessings from Scotland ❤❤
This place Much more better than Scotland it's self much more better much more better
GURRO!!!!!!!! In my area, the makestic VALLE CANNOBINA!!!! I have been and noticed the scottish flags but never really questioned it! Amazing to see this gem of a village in my region get some recognition!!!
This summer I will move back to Italy after 5 years of living in Edinburgh. Definitely gonna visit Gurro!
This place Much more better than Scotland it's self much more better much more better
As a Scotsman,
This is fantastico 👏🏼🤌🏼 🏴 🇮🇹 ❤️
I am not far from Gurro and this just a story, like any children book.
@@dasbose4962 Still a true story though.
@@CME1994 no is not.
@@dasbose4962 how?
So this whole video is all made up? 😂 why
@@CME1994 Even us Nord and Central Italians are Celtics (more like a mix of Italics and Celtics) but we descendts from the same Bell Beakers ancestors with the Indoeuropean haplogroup R1b ( I’m R1b U-152)
Another 'Scottish' influenced village/town in Italy is to be found in the Garfagnana in the mountains of northern Tuscany. It is Barga.
I heard there's an annual Fish & Chips festival in Barga
There’s an Italian village in North Wales that was built between the 20s and 70s, Portmeirion, just outside Porthmadog
just googoled it. Looks amazing
Here in Scotland, people eat pizza more often than haggis.
Deep fried pizza
@@lucylane7397 no.
Pizza is neapolitan, not from piedmont
@@e.fontanot3809 And Naples is in Italy right? Silly comment...
Italian food is loved the world over.
Barga in Toscany is really scottish too.
How is Barga Scotish...?
@@rodserling6955 Loads of people from there moved to the Glasgow and Greenock area in the 50's and 60's. For example, Paolo Nutini's family come from there. I know a few people from Glasgow who have families there.
@@rodserling6955Itinerant workers from the area with many connections brought cultural gifts between both places over many years.
@@rodserling6955A Vár nobility is from which Varangian,Vardarian,Bavarian..just as more Western variant Burg-Berg derived from which is why Edinburgh is called as such.
Scottish traced they origins from Hungarian-MacAr-Scythian whom as such lived and live in a much larger area.For western Scythians where a Finno-Ugric meaning Finnish-Hungarian alliance from which Hungarian-Macar-Scythian where a Gál-Gaelic-Gaul while Eastern Scythians where more Turkic .
Gál-Gaelic-Gaul appeared and moved between Portugal,BenGal and Mongolia and so have connected Iberian Peninsula with Caucasian Iberian Kingdom and Siberia which is why Scottish-Irish genetics appears in this Scythian region like Hindu-Kush,Iran,Middle East....and Italy for they where a Hun-Han which is a name and so a identity just as title of nobility with its religious significance.
@seanculligan8592 Thank you for mentioning Barga! It’s another beautiful hill town nestled in northern Tuscany where many of the locals speak Italian with a Scottish accent and where some shops sell Irn-Bru and Tunnocks Caramel wafers ( made in Glasgow).
As a Brit with parents from Naples we have always been close to the Irish and Scots, we find them similar to us culturally. Forza Napoli 🙏🙏
Oh BS
Southern Italian culture is similar to Irish and Scottish culture. Roman roots that date back to Rome, the center of it all.
What a wonderful and GREAT "Big Story!" I love stories of people from around the world, and this one is purely FANTASTIC. Thank you for the time, effort, and funding for this story. I LOVED IT!🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
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her italian is really good. she translated your subtitles prefectly.
I love this channel. Glad it's back.
Celts and Italians are brothers.
We have massive Italian community’s in Wales.
Lovely people and even more lovely food!
Scots language is Germanic. Gaelic is Celtic. Scottish people are not Celtic people
@@dan-ee3we I’m not talking about the language I’m talking about the people.
Ask a Scot if they are Celtic
@@TheAwillz Just make sure he isn't wearing a blue and white footy shirt first
@@wullaballoo2642 😂very true
I'm Scottish. I'm not Celtic@@TheAwillz
As a Scotsman, I never knew this! I love the Italy, my favourite country outside of my own.
Il popolo scozzese e' quello che più si avvicina alla mentalità italiana ❤
@@giuseppebruscu3031 credi?
Sono scozzese e sto imparando l’Italiano.
Io sempre amato l’Italia e gli italiani.
È bello vedere gli italiani pensiamo bene di noi.
Molto respect e grazie.
It’s a good country. I don’t know why so many Scottish folk are so fond of Italy. I’m the same.
I think Italians are easy to get on with and they have that no shit, straight to the point attitude, too.
@@Belisarius536 Lo sapevi che discendiamo dagli stessi Antenati i Bell Beakers con l’aplogruppo R1b Indo-Europei e oggi è l’aplogruppo dominante sia in Italia (50+) che in Scozia (altamente dominante) (io sono R1b U-152) e le ingue Italiche e Celtiche derivano da dallo stesso ramo linguistico Italo-Celtico
@@Ajemone sapevo, ma solo non fino questo punto.
Sapevo del collegamento/connessione linguistico e che condividano gli stessi antenati indoeuropei ma non sapevo conoscevo l’informazioni su quanto fossero vicini il celtiche e l’italiche. Non so molto dei geni ma è affascinante imparare. Grazie.
Non conosco la mia genetica tratti, no sono statti misurato ma vivo nella zona Pictish della Scozia, dove le città hanno antici nome picti. Sapevo tutti la mia famiglia ho vissuto qui da molto tempo per quanti per ne so.
Esaminerò i miei antenati; é atteso da tempo.
Escusate la mia povera scrittura italiana. Sono nuovo nello studio dell'italiano e ho cercato di scrivere il meglio che potevo senza aiuto, il più possibile.
Espero che tu capisci.
Do you speak English?
It’s good practice but it took me about an hour to write this, just in case you don’t. 😂
I think the local italian women must have really liked the scottish warriors, for them to have such a lasting impact 😄
Film director Martin Scorsese also inherited Scottish bloodline too. Scozzese means Scottish in Italian - one of his ancestors went to US, then their surname was changed into Scorsese from Scozzese. So Marty is actually Scottish-Italian-American!
I found out about this the other day then I come across this video and see your comment. Funny coincidence.
Never knew that.
That accounts for the bushy eyebrows and shortness of stature.
As an Italian i love Scottish and Irish people 👍
So interesting! Someday I will visit dedicate this village!
Mi ricordo di aver sentito una storia del genere ma vederla é tutta un'altra esperienza! Grazie per questo video❤
There is an Italian Village in Wales, so why not a Scottish Village in Italy?
In Swansea 🦢🏖️
@@Lucia-ik8kj Portmeirion
Thanks for coming back BigStory ❤
Definitely not something I ever expected 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
Scottish traced they origins from Hungarian-MacAr-Scythian whom as such lived and live in a much larger area.For western Scythians where a Finno-Ugric meaning Finnish-Hungarian alliance from which Hungarian-Macar-Scythian where a Gál-Gaelic-Gaul while Eastern Scythians where more Turkic .
Gál-Gaelic-Gaul appeared and moved between Portugal,BenGal and Mongolia and so have connected Iberian Peninsula with Caucasian Iberian Kingdom and Siberia which is why Scottish-Irish genetics appears in this Scythian region like Hindu-Kush,Iran,Middle East....and Italy for they where a Hun-Han which is a name and so a identity just as title of nobility with its religious significance.
i love out of place stories like this, great work. thanks
Well, as they say you learn something new every day, fantastic, all the very best from Scotland ❤
As an english person (teeny bit of scottish ancestry, a bit of italian and an irish grandfather, im mainly english) i feel like im listening to someone from the UK who has excellent italian language skills but is not a native speaker. Its so interesting since its actually her native language. Maybe its the power of suggestion? She feels scottish to me. I dont know but maybe its in the way she moves. I love this.
no she doesn't sound like a native speaker for sure. But a lot of old people in Italy aren't native speakers and have local dialects as their first language. Alpine dialects in particular are very different from Italian. And they're even more distant from the Southern accents mostly heard in Italian communities abroad
The good news is that now we know that after centuries British people can fully integrate somewhere.
Scottish people are very different from the English.
@@nebhalabir1201Not so very different. Both Scots and English play football, 🏈 rugby and eat fish and chips. They can even communicate sometimes.
And They're protestants, speak english and have no taste for good food. They're more similar than they'd like to, both of them!@@aclark903
@@nebhalabir1201 Lol historically Scotland was always over-represented in British colonialism + slave trade
@@howmanybeansmakefive cry about it
Thats a lovely story i didnt know about..thanks for sharing ❤❤❤❤❤❤
beautiful piece of history and culture
Beautiful mountains that remind home, and beautiful Italian wife. Done deal.
Never knew about this as a scottish person. Massive thanks for making a video on this!
In Gurro's misty glens, McDonaldi's clan,
Where mountains meet the sky, as giants stand,
In fifteen-twenty-five, they made their home,
Mercenaries of valor, no more to roam.
The battle at Pavia, their glory shone bright,
Against the French, they fought with might,
But winter's grip held them tight,
In Gurro they remained, 'neath starry night.
With Italian belles, they found their love,
In the shadow of peaks, like eagles above,
Their hearts entwined, in Gaelic and Italian speech,
In Gurro's embrace, their dreams did reach.
Through the ages, their tale resounds,
In whispers of mist, in Highland sounds,
McDonaldi's legacy, forever told,
In Gurro's valleys, where memories unfold.
Wow, that was so well done! This is kinda hilarious/tragic/beautiful! Idk why it moved me so much!
I'm Italian and I had never heard this story, true or not, it's still very beautiful
As italian This is a discovery
That is amazing!! I'd love to go there!
Che posto stupendo, manca solo una distilleria di whisky 🥃🏴🇮🇹
In Sardinia, where I come from, there is a folk dance called „Scottis“, introduced several decades ago by Sardinian miners who worked many years in the Land of the Glory River, and came back to their beloved island to enjoy their life‘s eve. God bless Scotland the Brave.
Being scottish myself and watching this. The hills and mountains do have a Scottish feel to them. Would love to go visit and meet the people there. Scottish people and Italian food seems like the best combination I can think of 😂
Soy Peruano 🇵🇪 y no nececito saber Italiano ya que entiendo perfectamente todo lo que dice 😇
Somos primos 🇮🇹❤️
@@rodrigodeangelis1275 Por siempre ❤️
@@rodrigodeangelis1275 ? Cugini con gli Spagnoli
Wow!How fascinating it is to be having traditions and traces of the Scottish heritage
Davvero una GRANDE STORIA! Viva l'Italia🇮🇹 e Viva la Scozia🏴...!
The Seed Grows With No Sound
But A Tree Fall Huge Noise
Destruction Has Noise, But
Creation Is Quite
This Is The Power Of Silence...
Grow Silently.
GOOD MORNING
ayyyy lass lets goo dats bloodly awesome your wellcome in Scotland anythime
scottish people when they see a mountain range that looks like home: “welp guess i’m moving in PERMANENTLY!”
This place Much more better than Scotland it's self much more better much more better
This is a great story.
What a wonderful looking place.
I’d say yes. As a Scottish person myself, I’m pretty sure this happened haha! Anything to get away from the rain ;)
What a wonderful video and UA-cam channel. Whoever is behind this, please keep it up.
Thank you! 🥹
Aww as a Scot that was very emotional. Oan yurself Gurro the loast clan!
Even though the old lady was speaking Italian every time she was talking I could hear my nan who is Scottish 😂 certain total changes in cadences while literally Scottish while she's speaking Italian.
Love this.
Nice place... Italy is full of that kind
Amazing
I'd love to visit this place some day
Incredible, I didn't know that !
As a Scotsman I would love to visit this village.❤
The folk are possible descendants of a unit of the Garde Ecossais who were with the French king Francis 1 and were defeated with him. He was captured and his guards never made it hame.
A wee greet in order. 🏴
This is beautiful 🇬🇧🏴🇮🇹
get that union jack out of here
Crikey Rosa's accent is no joke that's pure Scottish..❤️
The scottish kept everything unchanged for 500 years, except for the british cuisine--->literally thrown out of the window.
When i was younger most chip shops and ice cream vans were Italian owned and many still are. Quite a few Italian people at my school aswell.
Always thought it was weird that someone would leave Italy for Glasgow and Ayrshire 😂
Italian "cotechino" Is somehow similar to haggis (but with different ingredients), so there it is!
superb
There are fascinating stories like this all around the world. A Polish village in Haiti. A Central African village in Abkhazia!
There is no central african village in abkazia.. There was once africans there, they were slaves from the turks probably given as gifts.. The local abkazians were not familiar with enslaving africans and had a feudal society of sorts they settled the africans on several estates growing fruit mostly and aquired african wives for them from the turks, these africans assimilated but stayed seperate mostly till the russians arrived at which point intermarrying increased, during connunisim they vanished as a group as intermarriage was the norm.. Today there is no africans there.. You might see a darker person but they are no darker that greeks or palestinians or persians.. The africans were mostly from the sudan probably
I love the polish Haiti story
@@edwardrea8924 yeah but there is no polish there. It was long ago. There is some Haitians with german ancestors still but its something very obscure
I can't see Kazimierz or Irena doing some vodoo rites ! 😂😂 A polish village in haiti....
3:20 that's line-singing 🎶
Bravi 👏
Video divertente
Wow, this is so interesting! We don’t often think about a Scottish diaspora. I’m a Scottish descent in Appalachian mountains of Tennessee… We always hear about how the mountains here reminded the settlers of home. I thought it was interesting that she said the same thing. Even more so interesting, the fact that I have been to Italy, and it reminded me of Tennessee!
Tennessee People… come to Italy 😂
The way they sing is a lilting Gaelic style. So fascinating
Makes me proud to be Scottish
Wow come on the Scotland 🏴🏴🏴🏴 amazing to see us in Italy 🇮🇹 hopefully get to see there one day
Love from Glasgow would be amazing to visit some day!!❤ 🏴
Would like to go and visit now.
Wow I’m flabbergasted
Fascinating and beautifully filmed. But there's so much more you could have told us. What is the name of that beautiful song, for example?
Love it scotland 🏴 ❤ 🇮🇹
The water well they settled actually contained Irn Bru and the hills had herds of wild 3-footed haggis to hunt … a paradise away from home
1:23 That tune is actually an Irish jig ... it's called "Morrison's Jig"
This is the true and only diversity europe needs, from europeans themselves and not from non european immigrants. Free europe!
Well if they are having fun then go for it! I'm Sottish and it's alright here, if only we had better weather it would be absolute paradise, especially the Highlands. I'm from Edinburgh and sometimes I forget how lucky I actually I am that I get to pass such historical landmarks like Edinburgh Castle every day ❤
Do one about Colonia Tovar, an entire GERMAN town in Venezuela.
Con questo video suggerito mi avete conquistato, non ero al corrente da italiano di tutto questo, grazie...iscritto 🎩🫡❤️🤗
interesting, theres a town near me, basically joint at the hip to edinburgh called Portobello, and it really reminds me of italy. there are a number of local ice cream places here too, which i believe were started by italian families
I need to go there
Italian here, never heard of this place. I want to visit it soon, also it is like only a couple of hours by car from my home.
Always thought so!!!!!! This Is up North but also In Calabria have simalar culture..black pudding and haggis..same musical instruments.DNA test and update would be intetesting to see.
In ancient times, at the time of ancient Rome, northern Italy was called Cisalpine Gaul and was inhabited by Celtic peoples, so those populations were already related to the Scots and the Celtic culture.
Oh, I thought this was Barga where Mr James May visited.
this is Gurro, but this is make me interesting how many Scottish villages in Italy
In Tuscany we have a small village in the mountains with a peculiar German/Italian dialect, because some Germans of the troupes of Emperor Charles V decided to stop there. So I believe it is quite possible we had Scottish in the Alps👌🏼
My mother was convinced to have some Scottish blood, because she loved Scotland so much... and she had ancestors nearby that village... Oh my God 😳 I have to think about it 😂😂😂
Wonderful story as we are united as Europeans with so many wonderful flavors in the same pot.
I know it, it's in the Valle Cannobina, a nice motorcycle fare.
The sad part, not said here, is that it's one of the very few Alpine valleys that extends horizontally, East-to-West, so they don't see the sun for more than six months (say September through April), and it's also very rainy.
So much for "better weather than Scotland".