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World cup - eat your heart out! In Italy, every June, the brutal football sport of 'Calcio Storico' is played. It's a game of football unlike any other, violent and with no-holds barred.
The most incredible and worst-smelling competition where top flight flatulence is a key skill. In this corner of North-East Italy, competitors battle it out to have the most odorous and loudest wind possible. Many take the battle very seriously and have special diets to maximise their performance in front of a live audience.
In his Venetian workshop, Livio De Marchi is able to sculpt any object in wood with a striking realism.
In a corner of Tuscany, Alfio carries on an age-old tradition...He is one of the few remaining owl trainers.
No laser lights or plasma screens here: just 70,000 candles that light up Pisa for a night. No laser lights or plasma screens, just 70,000 candles that light up Pisa for a night...
Davide, the young boy and Claudio, the banker, are the two favourites of the most astonishing Palio from Italy. After training these geese everyday, they are ready to cover the 419 metres of the race.
Travel back to the time of the Romans and the famous gladiator games. Following public success, this group of gladiator fanatics got the idea of creating a gladiator school. Twice a week, everyone gets together to train and practice their combat choreography.
The oldest science museum in the world holds more than 1,400 models of different parts of the human anatomy.
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