Why Is There a Scottish Village In Italy? 🇮🇹

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  • @GreatBigStory
    @GreatBigStory  5 місяців тому +92

    Another place to add to your travel list! 😯 What's at the top of your bucket list? Tell us 👇

    • @lycan_system8427
      @lycan_system8427 5 місяців тому +3

      What is the Scottish sound track used at 2:38

    • @lycan_system8427
      @lycan_system8427 5 місяців тому +2

      2:38

    • @dolphincrescent54
      @dolphincrescent54 5 місяців тому

      YES!

    • @henrythebananaboy
      @henrythebananaboy 5 місяців тому

      @@dolphincrescent54Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

    • @Aurora-qn2dx
      @Aurora-qn2dx 5 місяців тому

      As a south Italian its Scotland.. Edinburgh in particolare,England and Ireland..whole UK really. And Hobbiton in new Zealand.

  • @alexahenderson1044
    @alexahenderson1044 5 місяців тому +160

    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 🩷🇮🇹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

    • @davis70140
      @davis70140 5 місяців тому +5

      Much more better than Scotland it's self much more better much more better

    • @alexahenderson1044
      @alexahenderson1044 5 місяців тому +3

      @@davis70140 what ? You’ve clearly never really went to Scotland haha

    • @Machetekills31
      @Machetekills31 5 місяців тому

      He is a bot stooge​@@alexahenderson1044

    • @ChrisM541
      @ChrisM541 5 місяців тому

      @@davis70140 STOP spamming these posts with that racist sh#t !!!

    • @davis70140
      @davis70140 5 місяців тому +2

      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

  • @michellemcmanus2729
    @michellemcmanus2729 5 місяців тому +158

    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 ❤

    • @revjimbob
      @revjimbob 5 місяців тому +7

      The way she pronounces 'no, no, no' at the beginning sounds Scottish to me.

    • @ScottieWallace
      @ScottieWallace 4 місяці тому +1

      I'll come with 👍😘🤌

    • @creativecatproductions
      @creativecatproductions 4 місяці тому

      Her hair looks dyed

    • @bang_türk_varm
      @bang_türk_varm 4 місяці тому +3

      ​@@revjimbobthat's just italian

    • @martindippolito1915
      @martindippolito1915 3 місяці тому +4

      there no scottish accent in this northen italian accent tbh.

  • @intersezioni
    @intersezioni 5 місяців тому +533

    As an Italian, thank you for not including the mandolin in your musical column!

    • @QuestLink
      @QuestLink 5 місяців тому +17

      occhio all'inglisc

    • @intersezioni
      @intersezioni 5 місяців тому +31

      @@QuestLink dont vuorri

    • @laurencedarabia2000
      @laurencedarabia2000 5 місяців тому +9

      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 🤣

    • @e.fontanot3809
      @e.fontanot3809 5 місяців тому

      Il mandolino non c'entra un cazzo con il Piemonte

    • @aggrolad3118
      @aggrolad3118 5 місяців тому +2

      Bro bastava dire soundtrack o background music

  • @WeeWalks
    @WeeWalks 5 місяців тому +325

    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.

    • @hondacbrification
      @hondacbrification 5 місяців тому +6

      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.

    • @Logies_right_hand
      @Logies_right_hand 5 місяців тому +19

      Dario Franchitti, Paul Di Resta, Ken Stott, Sharleen Spiteri….

    • @EdoardoMartino-tj9np
      @EdoardoMartino-tj9np 5 місяців тому +6

      Sir Eduardo Paolozzi!

    • @cdifff643
      @cdifff643 5 місяців тому +24

      About 80% of chip shops in glasgow are owned by people of italian origin

    • @johngreenhorn8853
      @johngreenhorn8853 5 місяців тому +3

      Giovanni ( Johnny ) Moscardini,born in Falkirk,Scotland,but played football for Italy 9 times scoring 7 goals.

  • @alexispaterson814
    @alexispaterson814 5 місяців тому +119

    Sending warm greetings from Scotland and thank you for looking after our wandering sons.

    • @davis70140
      @davis70140 5 місяців тому +3

      Much more better than Scotland it's self much more better much more better

    • @DWLADS
      @DWLADS 5 місяців тому +4

      @@davis70140no one asked.

    • @davis70140
      @davis70140 5 місяців тому

      @@DWLADS so you know a dead secret behind peanuts 🥜 and ducks ride moter bikes at night time

    • @DWLADS
      @DWLADS 5 місяців тому

      @@davis70140 you’ve done your nut son

  • @e-bikecustom
    @e-bikecustom 5 місяців тому +31

    i'm italian and i don't knew this history,thanks very much for this

  • @eccoeco3454
    @eccoeco3454 5 місяців тому +221

    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

    • @abritandhisbikeinpoland6802
      @abritandhisbikeinpoland6802 5 місяців тому +10

      I hear Italian words with Scottish accent, I am English!

    • @FourFourTwo123
      @FourFourTwo123 5 місяців тому

      Am no arsed

    • @jhnfjhh7037
      @jhnfjhh7037 5 місяців тому +2

      Their ancestors would have spoke Gaelic not English

    • @eccoeco3454
      @eccoeco3454 5 місяців тому +2

      @@jhnfjhh7037 I have no idea how different a gaelic Person trying to speak italian would sound so

    • @annbottelli5682
      @annbottelli5682 5 місяців тому +10

      I immediately noticed the Scottish intonation in her voice, it's uncanny!!!

  • @JacobHarrell
    @JacobHarrell 5 місяців тому +389

    I can confirm Rosa made me (an Englishman) wear a kilt whilst filming this! Sorry to all my Scottish friends! 😅

    • @Mark723
      @Mark723 5 місяців тому +19

      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!

    • @JacobHarrell
      @JacobHarrell 5 місяців тому +18

      @@Mark723 I have a feeling it might be posted on Instagram at some point 😂

    • @Mark723
      @Mark723 5 місяців тому +7

      @@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.

    • @robertyorga
      @robertyorga 5 місяців тому +5

      @JacobHarrell Welcome back, Jacob! Great to hear your voice again! Looking forward to more fascinating tales on Great Big Story!

    • @cdifff643
      @cdifff643 5 місяців тому

      Why are you sorry? Stick it back in next time you are at a wedding. Surprisingly good for pulling

  • @geridelbello4480
    @geridelbello4480 5 місяців тому +180

    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

    • @marinarassin4231
      @marinarassin4231 5 місяців тому +14

      So much history we don't know , it needs added in schools, local history is as important , normal folk history

    • @geridelbello4480
      @geridelbello4480 5 місяців тому +9

      @@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"

    • @marinarassin4231
      @marinarassin4231 5 місяців тому +1

      @@geridelbello4480 thank you, I was told it's safe haven , the name came from the famous hitsong by rocco granata

    • @giovannimoriggi5833
      @giovannimoriggi5833 5 місяців тому

      @@geridelbello4480like many other Italian songs, Marina by Rocco Granata went ugly popular over the world

    • @anthonyhind1308
      @anthonyhind1308 5 місяців тому +3

      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.

  • @gargantuanclaymore6824
    @gargantuanclaymore6824 5 місяців тому +27

    Never heard about this until now! Love to our Scottish/Italian brothers and sisters!

  • @margaretdundas680
    @margaretdundas680 5 місяців тому +29

    Blessings from Scotland ❤❤

    • @davis70140
      @davis70140 5 місяців тому +3

      This place Much more better than Scotland it's self much more better much more better

  • @sinistrodellamorte
    @sinistrodellamorte 5 місяців тому +22

    This summer I will move back to Italy after 5 years of living in Edinburgh. Definitely gonna visit Gurro!

    • @davis70140
      @davis70140 5 місяців тому +3

      This place Much more better than Scotland it's self much more better much more better

  • @alexsyed1530
    @alexsyed1530 5 місяців тому +15

    Mi ricordo di aver sentito una storia del genere ma vederla é tutta un'altra esperienza! Grazie per questo video❤

  • @RingerLuca651
    @RingerLuca651 5 місяців тому +14

    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!!!

  • @jamsjars9505
    @jamsjars9505 5 місяців тому +37

    I love this channel. Glad it's back.

  • @jameshudson169
    @jameshudson169 5 місяців тому +13

    her italian is really good. she translated your subtitles prefectly.

  • @lillianlopez2691
    @lillianlopez2691 5 місяців тому +60

    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!🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

  • @HibeeMcbee
    @HibeeMcbee 5 місяців тому +27

    As a Scotsman, I never knew this! I love the Italy, my favourite country outside of my own.

    • @giuseppebruscu3031
      @giuseppebruscu3031 5 місяців тому +2

      Il popolo scozzese e' quello che più si avvicina alla mentalità italiana ❤

    • @Belisarius536
      @Belisarius536 5 місяців тому +2

      @@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.

    • @Belisarius536
      @Belisarius536 5 місяців тому +3

      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.

    • @Ajemone
      @Ajemone 5 місяців тому

      @@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

    • @Belisarius536
      @Belisarius536 5 місяців тому +1

      @@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. 😂

  • @lovepeace4065
    @lovepeace4065 5 місяців тому +13

    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 🙏🙏

    • @spaniardsrmoors6817
      @spaniardsrmoors6817 4 місяці тому +1

      Oh BS

    • @bryanwest5398
      @bryanwest5398 2 місяці тому

      Southern Italian culture is similar to Irish and Scottish culture. Roman roots that date back to Rome, the center of it all.

  • @fhugheveleigh2
    @fhugheveleigh2 5 місяців тому +15

    Another 'Scottish' influenced village/town in Italy is to be found in the Garfagnana in the mountains of northern Tuscany. It is Barga.

    • @keltyk
      @keltyk 5 місяців тому

      I heard there's an annual Fish & Chips festival in Barga

  • @seanculligan8592
    @seanculligan8592 5 місяців тому +59

    Barga in Toscany is really scottish too.

    • @rodserling6955
      @rodserling6955 5 місяців тому

      How is Barga Scotish...?

    • @seanculligan8592
      @seanculligan8592 5 місяців тому +13

      @@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.

    • @Euroscot9155
      @Euroscot9155 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@@rodserling6955Itinerant workers from the area with many connections brought cultural gifts between both places over many years.

    • @hondacbrification
      @hondacbrification 5 місяців тому

      ​@@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.

    • @sowgrowandcook
      @sowgrowandcook 5 місяців тому +3

      @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).

  • @isaacjones5687
    @isaacjones5687 5 місяців тому +10

    There’s an Italian village in North Wales that was built between the 20s and 70s, Portmeirion, just outside Porthmadog

  • @CME1994
    @CME1994 5 місяців тому +92

    As a Scotsman,
    This is fantastico 👏🏼🤌🏼 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇹 ❤️

    • @dasbose4962
      @dasbose4962 5 місяців тому

      I am not far from Gurro and this just a story, like any children book.

    • @CME1994
      @CME1994 5 місяців тому +2

      @@dasbose4962 Still a true story though.

    • @dasbose4962
      @dasbose4962 5 місяців тому

      @@CME1994 no is not.

    • @CME1994
      @CME1994 5 місяців тому +2

      @@dasbose4962 how?
      So this whole video is all made up? 😂 why

    • @Ajemone
      @Ajemone 5 місяців тому +2

      @@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)

  • @Frillar
    @Frillar 5 місяців тому +12

    I think the local italian women must have really liked the scottish warriors, for them to have such a lasting impact 😄

  • @eloquentlyemma
    @eloquentlyemma 5 місяців тому +98

    Here in Scotland, people eat pizza more often than haggis.

    • @lucylane7397
      @lucylane7397 5 місяців тому +3

      Deep fried pizza

    • @h-Qalziel
      @h-Qalziel 5 місяців тому

      @@lucylane7397 no.

    • @e.fontanot3809
      @e.fontanot3809 5 місяців тому +7

      Pizza is neapolitan, not from piedmont

    • @craigstephens93
      @craigstephens93 5 місяців тому +5

      ​@@e.fontanot3809 And Naples is in Italy right? Silly comment...

    • @bunjijumper5345
      @bunjijumper5345 5 місяців тому +2

      Italian food is loved the world over.

  • @TheAwillz
    @TheAwillz 5 місяців тому +62

    Celts and Italians are brothers.
    We have massive Italian community’s in Wales.
    Lovely people and even more lovely food!

    • @dan-ee3we
      @dan-ee3we 5 місяців тому

      Scots language is Germanic. Gaelic is Celtic. Scottish people are not Celtic people

    • @TheAwillz
      @TheAwillz 5 місяців тому +5

      @@dan-ee3we I’m not talking about the language I’m talking about the people.
      Ask a Scot if they are Celtic

    • @wullaballoo2642
      @wullaballoo2642 5 місяців тому +4

      @@TheAwillz Just make sure he isn't wearing a blue and white footy shirt first

    • @TheAwillz
      @TheAwillz 5 місяців тому +1

      @@wullaballoo2642 😂very true

    • @dan-ee3we
      @dan-ee3we 5 місяців тому

      I'm Scottish. I'm not Celtic@@TheAwillz

  • @kennethdrewary1094
    @kennethdrewary1094 5 місяців тому +27

    There is an Italian Village in Wales, so why not a Scottish Village in Italy?

  • @EtruscoViola
    @EtruscoViola 5 місяців тому +13

    Davvero una GRANDE STORIA! Viva l'Italia🇮🇹 e Viva la Scozia🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿...!

  • @puccaland
    @puccaland 5 місяців тому +107

    The good news is that now we know that after centuries British people can fully integrate somewhere.

    • @nebhalabir1201
      @nebhalabir1201 5 місяців тому +60

      Scottish people are very different from the English.

    • @aclark903
      @aclark903 5 місяців тому +14

      @@nebhalabir1201Not so very different. Both Scots and English play football, 🏈 rugby and eat fish and chips. They can even communicate sometimes.

    • @Chaiserzose
      @Chaiserzose 5 місяців тому

      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

    • @howmanybeansmakefive
      @howmanybeansmakefive 5 місяців тому +15

      @@nebhalabir1201 Lol historically Scotland was always over-represented in British colonialism + slave trade

    • @nebhalabir1201
      @nebhalabir1201 5 місяців тому +6

      @@howmanybeansmakefive cry about it

  • @farzona_kpop
    @farzona_kpop 3 місяці тому +2

    So interesting! Someday I will visit dedicate this village!

  • @janefountain4147
    @janefountain4147 3 місяці тому +1

    Thats a lovely story i didnt know about..thanks for sharing ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @lindae1116
    @lindae1116 5 місяців тому +9

    Well, as they say you learn something new every day, fantastic, all the very best from Scotland ❤

  • @sosagecaserol6675
    @sosagecaserol6675 5 місяців тому +3

    Love from Glasgow would be amazing to visit some day!!❤ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @rory4016
    @rory4016 5 місяців тому +2

    beautiful piece of history and culture

  • @ellehan3003
    @ellehan3003 5 місяців тому +4

    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.

    • @robertofratello3549
      @robertofratello3549 3 місяці тому

      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

  • @KHHVKimchicel
    @KHHVKimchicel 5 місяців тому +31

    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!

    • @NosyFella
      @NosyFella 5 місяців тому +3

      I found out about this the other day then I come across this video and see your comment. Funny coincidence.

    • @revjimbob
      @revjimbob 5 місяців тому

      Never knew that.

    • @spaniardsrmoors6817
      @spaniardsrmoors6817 4 місяці тому +1

      That accounts for the bushy eyebrows and shortness of stature.

    • @bluesoul7163
      @bluesoul7163 3 місяці тому

      As an Italian i love Scottish and Irish people 👍

  • @johnnewton3335
    @johnnewton3335 5 місяців тому +1

    i love out of place stories like this, great work. thanks

  • @Eric_15974
    @Eric_15974 5 місяців тому +16

    Soy Peruano 🇵🇪 y no nececito saber Italiano ya que entiendo perfectamente todo lo que dice 😇

    • @rodrigodeangelis1275
      @rodrigodeangelis1275 5 місяців тому +5

      Somos primos 🇮🇹❤️

    • @Eric_15974
      @Eric_15974 5 місяців тому +3

      @@rodrigodeangelis1275 Por siempre ❤️

    • @paolorossi9180
      @paolorossi9180 5 місяців тому

      @@rodrigodeangelis1275 ? Cugini con gli Spagnoli

  • @JN003
    @JN003 5 місяців тому +5

    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.

  • @publiuscorneliusscipio1418
    @publiuscorneliusscipio1418 5 місяців тому +20

    Che posto stupendo, manca solo una distilleria di whisky 🥃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹

  • @asdrubalanibal6853
    @asdrubalanibal6853 5 місяців тому +5

    Beautiful mountains that remind home, and beautiful Italian wife. Done deal.

  • @mattiasmclaughlin6856
    @mattiasmclaughlin6856 2 місяці тому

    Random knowledge that I definitely didn't need but definitely enjoyed. Another banger GBS🔥

  • @iMertin
    @iMertin 5 місяців тому +10

    Makes me proud to be Scottish

  • @blairmarshall544
    @blairmarshall544 5 місяців тому +3

    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 😂

  • @SA1upsb
    @SA1upsb 5 місяців тому +2

    Wow, that was so well done! This is kinda hilarious/tragic/beautiful! Idk why it moved me so much!

  • @KC-gy5xw
    @KC-gy5xw 5 місяців тому +3

    That is amazing!! I'd love to go there!

  • @NIRVANAmat
    @NIRVANAmat 5 місяців тому +2

    I’d say yes. As a Scottish person myself, I’m pretty sure this happened haha! Anything to get away from the rain ;)

  • @user-nv7uz5nv8f
    @user-nv7uz5nv8f 5 місяців тому +8

    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

  • @aerogrape6376
    @aerogrape6376 5 місяців тому +75

    scottish people when they see a mountain range that looks like home: “welp guess i’m moving in PERMANENTLY!”

    • @davis70140
      @davis70140 5 місяців тому +1

      This place Much more better than Scotland it's self much more better much more better

  • @fabiobeka
    @fabiobeka 5 місяців тому +9

    The scottish kept everything unchanged for 500 years, except for the british cuisine--->literally thrown out of the window.

  • @BombaycityNirvana
    @BombaycityNirvana 5 місяців тому +13

    As italian This is a discovery

  • @Blerghaa
    @Blerghaa 5 місяців тому

    Never knew about this as a scottish person. Massive thanks for making a video on this!

  • @sbrechegno
    @sbrechegno 3 місяці тому

    Wow!How fascinating it is to be having traditions and traces of the Scottish heritage

  • @67claudius
    @67claudius 4 місяці тому +1

    I'm Italian and I had never heard this story, true or not, it's still very beautiful

  • @Euroscot9155
    @Euroscot9155 5 місяців тому +8

    Love it scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ❤ 🇮🇹

  • @alin98
    @alin98 4 місяці тому

    Thanks for coming back BigStory ❤

  • @TheAzzanellese
    @TheAzzanellese 5 місяців тому +2

    Italian "cotechino" Is somehow similar to haggis (but with different ingredients), so there it is!

  • @baly4611
    @baly4611 4 місяці тому +4

    This is the true and only diversity europe needs, from europeans themselves and not from non european immigrants. Free europe!

  • @TheNoerdy
    @TheNoerdy 5 місяців тому +21

    What a wonderful video and UA-cam channel. Whoever is behind this, please keep it up.

  • @forbesmeek6304
    @forbesmeek6304 5 місяців тому +2

    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. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @lindamcdonaldcairns9874
    @lindamcdonaldcairns9874 5 місяців тому +3

    Aww as a Scot that was very emotional. Oan yurself Gurro the loast clan!

  • @saltynutzz
    @saltynutzz 5 місяців тому +3

    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.

  • @scotsman9755
    @scotsman9755 5 місяців тому +1

    I'd love to visit this place some day

  • @discovering_scotland
    @discovering_scotland 5 місяців тому +2

    Fascinating 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️

  • @maumas1312
    @maumas1312 2 місяці тому

    Con questo video suggerito mi avete conquistato, non ero al corrente da italiano di tutto questo, grazie...iscritto 🎩🫡❤️🤗

  • @miky8788
    @miky8788 5 місяців тому +17

    Nice place... Italy is full of that kind

  • @Craig_whyte
    @Craig_whyte 5 місяців тому +9

    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 😂

  • @lofilummy8062
    @lofilummy8062 5 місяців тому

    ayyyy lass lets goo dats bloodly awesome your wellcome in Scotland anythime

  • @frozenwarning
    @frozenwarning 4 місяці тому +1

    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!

    • @gggmmmxspace
      @gggmmmxspace 4 місяці тому

      Tennessee People… come to Italy 😂

  • @giuseppecalderone9014
    @giuseppecalderone9014 3 місяці тому +1

    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.

  • @bertinudesardigna6954
    @bertinudesardigna6954 3 місяці тому

    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.

  • @grifter25
    @grifter25 4 місяці тому +1

    The Italian surname "Scotti" means "From Scotland". Whoever has that surname probably has ancient Scottish origins. As a generalization, the same surname was also used in the Middle Ages for people with origins from Ireland. In fact, the nobleman from Piacenza "Alberto Scotti" was probably Irish.

  • @thomas-lo5pg
    @thomas-lo5pg 5 місяців тому +1

    As a Scotsman I would love to visit this village.❤

  • @laurencedarabia2000
    @laurencedarabia2000 5 місяців тому +6

    Nice, it's a plausible story, there were many Swiss and German mercenaries in Pavia, the Scots aren't mentioned but that doesn't mean they weren't there. Escaping from Pavia, the only road controlled by the Duchy of Milan to northern Europe, passed along Lake Maggiore. Having arrived in front of the Canobin valley, which flows into Lake Maggiore, they will have stopped to wait for the good weather. It can be seen that the Cannobine girls of 1525 were as attractive as those of today and the Scots decided to stop......

    • @hondacbrification
      @hondacbrification 5 місяців тому

      Lake of Magiore -Magyar.
      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.

    • @laurencedarabia2000
      @laurencedarabia2000 5 місяців тому

      Wat geopardising answer😂 . The italian word Maggiore come from the latin major and signify " bigger" because it' the bigger lake of glacial origin in front of the other that surround it. In Piedmont we had a little comunity of magyar soldier of fortune in Baraggia, near Vercelli. They came two hundred years after Pavia battle and fighted at Assietta battle.

    • @hondacbrification
      @hondacbrification 5 місяців тому

      @@laurencedarabia2000 And I have seen Italians like Micheangelo Naddeo tracing his origins back to Hungarians .
      ua-cam.com/video/ALS7eeuIWF4/v-deo.htmlsi=7FrJKlSb9dLiAZkt
      Just as I know that there Hungarians whose surname Olasz which in Hungarian is the same as Italian in English shows a strange thing in they genetics for its not that Mediterenian.

    • @laurencedarabia2000
      @laurencedarabia2000 5 місяців тому

      @@hondacbrification You are talking about the migrations by the Indo-Europeans in successive waves over the last 25,000 years. It's a complicated and constantly evolving issue, it seems that the latest DNA research shows a Caucasian origin common to all Europeans but it's a topic that has little to do with a group of mercenaries lost 500 years ago in the Cannobina valley

    • @hondacbrification
      @hondacbrification 5 місяців тому

      @@laurencedarabia2000 Thats the point for there where and are no Indo-Jewropean in steppe for such languages originates from a more Southern Equatorial regions .This linguistic Indo-Jewropean theories have no factual basis or correlates to actually genetic studies since languages in many cases spread via forced religious conversion like Arabic or Slav-Slöwen Indo-Iranian languages...

  • @TheTopG420
    @TheTopG420 5 місяців тому +2

    God bless you lassie ❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @sandywilkie1169
    @sandywilkie1169 5 місяців тому

    What a wonderful looking place.

  • @Aurora-qn2dx
    @Aurora-qn2dx 5 місяців тому +2

    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.

  • @GarrettMusic1
    @GarrettMusic1 2 місяці тому

    That's so interesting! Places you never know exist

  • @Brond.
    @Brond. 5 місяців тому +22

    Wow I’m flabbergasted

  • @ianhomerpura8937
    @ianhomerpura8937 5 місяців тому +3

    Just like what happened in the Philippines in 1763. The British invaded and occupied Manila, but when the peace deal was made, some of the soldiers brought from India opted to stay.

    • @r3dp1ll
      @r3dp1ll 5 місяців тому

      I guesss they fancied the women

  • @raffaelloschirinzi2072
    @raffaelloschirinzi2072 3 місяці тому

    Incredible, I didn't know that !

  • @madaug4389
    @madaug4389 5 місяців тому +1

    This is a great story.

  • @WilliamConnor-wb3ot
    @WilliamConnor-wb3ot 5 місяців тому +7

    This is beautiful 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹

    • @tezzz4208
      @tezzz4208 5 місяців тому +3

      get that union jack out of here

  • @bloodhoundgang1642
    @bloodhoundgang1642 5 місяців тому

    Crikey Rosa's accent is no joke that's pure Scottish..❤️

  • @JayB-ju9vc
    @JayB-ju9vc 5 місяців тому

    Wow come on the Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 amazing to see us in Italy 🇮🇹 hopefully get to see there one day

  • @Riposte821
    @Riposte821 5 місяців тому +3

    Do one about Colonia Tovar, an entire GERMAN town in Venezuela.

  • @kevinobill4818
    @kevinobill4818 5 місяців тому +4

    Oh, I thought this was Barga where Mr James May visited.

    • @lewakar
      @lewakar 5 місяців тому +1

      this is Gurro, but this is make me interesting how many Scottish villages in Italy

  • @jacklyons6502
    @jacklyons6502 3 місяці тому

    The way they sing is a lilting Gaelic style. So fascinating

  • @jonathanlandau-litewski7405
    @jonathanlandau-litewski7405 5 місяців тому +1

    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 ❤

  • @trevorhoward2254
    @trevorhoward2254 5 місяців тому

    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?

  • @DasTubemeister
    @DasTubemeister 5 місяців тому +1

    It was founded by a Scotsman called Tony MacAronie, who invented a type of pasta, the Italians called Macaroni in his honour.

  • @user-bf3pc2qd9s
    @user-bf3pc2qd9s 5 місяців тому

    3:20 that's line-singing 🎶

  • @thribs
    @thribs 5 місяців тому +1

    James May covered this village. Very interesting

  • @kendo5862
    @kendo5862 5 місяців тому

    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

  • @b.justiceforall9544
    @b.justiceforall9544 3 місяці тому

    Wonderful story as we are united as Europeans with so many wonderful flavors in the same pot.

  • @user-ty5pk6uc1e
    @user-ty5pk6uc1e 4 місяці тому +1

    There is even a Chinese city in Italy named Prato!

  • @LeeMcDaidDonegal
    @LeeMcDaidDonegal 5 місяців тому

    1:23 That tune is actually an Irish jig ... it's called "Morrison's Jig"

  • @Ian-nl9yd
    @Ian-nl9yd 5 місяців тому +22

    There are fascinating stories like this all around the world. A Polish village in Haiti. A Central African village in Abkhazia!

    • @manchagojohnsonmanchago6367
      @manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 5 місяців тому +1

      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

    • @edwardrea8924
      @edwardrea8924 5 місяців тому

      I love the polish Haiti story

    • @manchagojohnsonmanchago6367
      @manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 5 місяців тому

      @@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

    • @carlobrotto7132
      @carlobrotto7132 5 місяців тому

      I can't see Kazimierz or Irena doing some vodoo rites ! 😂😂 A polish village in haiti....

  • @JMPT
    @JMPT 5 місяців тому +6

    GBS Nice
    🇮🇹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹

    • @thevis5465
      @thevis5465 5 місяців тому +5

      I am Scottish not british

    • @JMPT
      @JMPT 5 місяців тому +2

      I get it