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Why Is There a Scottish Village In Italy?

2024 · 4 min · English

Residents of Gurro, a village in the Italian Alps, trace their ancestry to Scottish soldiers who supposedly stumbled into the valley fleeing a battle five hundred years ago, and still wear tartan and run a Scottish-themed bar to prove it. The film treats the legend with a straight face while gently noting how thin the evidence actually is.

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Why it's free: Free on Great Big Story's own channel; GBS produced and posted it there itself.