WE WENT TO GREECE WITHOUT LEAVING ITALY! | GALLICIANÒ, CALABRIA | ITALY TRAVEL GUIDE #5

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  • Here we are visiting a town full of Greek speakers... in Italy! Join us as we explore the town of Gallicianò, a mountain town in the Calabria region where people have maintained the Greek language and traditions for centuries. We will talk with friendly locals, drink from a "love fountain," and even see an imprisoned chicken!
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Komentáře • 677

  • @TravelDialogues
    @TravelDialogues  Před 4 měsíci +28

    If you enjoyed our content please consider subscribing to our channel, or even watching another one of our videos!
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    Thank you all for watching!
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    • @miastupid7911
      @miastupid7911 Před 3 měsíci

      Ειμαστε πολυ συγκινημενοι, αγαπημενε! ΠΟΛΥ! Ευχαριστω!

    • @greatalexander404
      @greatalexander404 Před 3 měsíci

      80% people's Greeks is ilirians Albanian👍👍✍️✍️🤓🤓s origins # (ARBANITES)

    • @user-eh2kt9op8q
      @user-eh2kt9op8q Před 2 měsíci

      Southern Italians are 60-70% Greeks Naples is a Greek city in Sicily Calabria they stop speaking Greek around the 14th century and Greeks forced to become Italians and catholic

    • @fraises5311
      @fraises5311 Před 8 dny

      @@user-eh2kt9op8q effectivement , beaucoup d'italiens du sud et de grecs se ressemblent comme des gens d'une même famille

    • @fraises5311
      @fraises5311 Před 8 dny

      people from galliciano , do they eat generaly greek food or italian food ?

  • @georgios_5342
    @georgios_5342 Před 4 měsíci +534

    As a Greek person, I'd love to come to Gallicianò, witness the culture and the history of Magna Graecia myself! Love from Greece 🇬🇷♥️🇮🇹

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 4 měsíci +24

      Thank you Georgios! We really hope you'll be able to visit Gallicianò very soon. It's such a unique place!

    • @utenteanonimo687
      @utenteanonimo687 Před 3 měsíci +18

      🇮🇹❤️🇬🇷

    • @helioslegigantosaure6939
      @helioslegigantosaure6939 Před 3 měsíci +2

      I see you everywhere bro

    • @Theokou
      @Theokou Před 3 měsíci +5

      As a Greek person I agree with my friend

    • @Ihatetravelling
      @Ihatetravelling Před 3 měsíci +2

      Κοίταξε όλοι μας ονειρευόμαστε να μεγαλώσουμε για να φύγουμε από την Ελλάδα έτσι όπως έχει καταντήσει πλέον 😂Προσωπικά εγώ θέλω να πάω Αγγλία... οπουδήποτε αρκεί να φύγω από δω!

  • @albertlevert2988
    @albertlevert2988 Před 18 dny +5

    All Europe owes so much to Greeks and Romans.

  • @Gk-ug6gu
    @Gk-ug6gu Před 4 měsíci +231

    People in rural Greece and especially older generations are living the same life with the people of Calabria. Same traditions, same nature, food and faces looks alike. You can't distinguished em.

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 4 měsíci +14

      Absolutely. We've noticed a lot of these similarities you mentioned pretty much all over the Mediterranean

    • @TWG911
      @TWG911 Před měsícem +7

      Una faccia una razza!

    • @fraises5311
      @fraises5311 Před 8 dny

      in calabria people don't eat tzatziki and tarama , they prefer pizza & pasta

    • @Gaming__-vc8tg
      @Gaming__-vc8tg Před 4 hodinami

      And they cook better than any restaurant in Athens that's for sure

  • @thodorisx8875
    @thodorisx8875 Před 4 měsíci +150

    Μεγάλη Ελλάδα...magna grecia!!

  • @Milan1Nikolic
    @Milan1Nikolic Před měsícem +21

    ❤ from Serbia for my dear Greek people all over the globe 🎉

  • @pzg98
    @pzg98 Před 2 měsíci +27

    Da una greca che studia italiano all’università a NY, grazie per questo video ragazzi! I dialetti greci del sud Italia sono veramente preziosi.

  • @giorgosgeorgopoulos5677
    @giorgosgeorgopoulos5677 Před 4 měsíci +173

    Magna Grecia !

  • @no-quema-cuh
    @no-quema-cuh Před 3 měsíci +155

    Greeks and Italians are the best neighbors Love to italy from a Greek 🥰

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 3 měsíci +13

      Thank you dear friend! Sending love back to Greece!

    • @alexa3322
      @alexa3322 Před 3 měsíci +2

      Not really!

    • @dimitrispvoice133
      @dimitrispvoice133 Před 3 měsíci +6

      In the 2nd World War though.... 🙄

    • @user-oh7xo4xl6h
      @user-oh7xo4xl6h Před 3 měsíci +3

      ​@@dimitrispvoice133 οι βόρειοι Ιταλοί και οι Αλβανοί μας πολέμησαν

    • @user-xh5pc3wd2m
      @user-xh5pc3wd2m Před 3 měsíci

      @@user-oh7xo4xl6h αν ρωτισεις αλβανο θα σου πει πως οι αλβανοι πολεμησαν τους ιταλους και πως προστατευαν τους ελληνες που δεν θελαν να πολεμησουν χαχααχαχ.. επισης ο κολοκοτρωνης ηταν σιπταριος λενε...

  • @bridgetsheehan4725
    @bridgetsheehan4725 Před 4 měsíci +71

    Φανταστικό βιδεο. Ελλάδα, Calabria, Σ'αγαπαμε πάντα,
    Η Ελληνική γλώσσα είναι το κάτι άλλο

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 4 měsíci +3

      Thank you so much! Yes, Greek language is truly lovely!

  • @parisstylianou9012
    @parisstylianou9012 Před 4 měsíci +78

    Watching this from Cyprus ,what it comes throu its familiar faces ,same landscapes ,tradition and Orthodoxy and lastly the cypriot dialect sounds almost the same with Galliciana , especially words like Rocca/Rotsa , fascinating how greeks we are everywhere !!

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 4 měsíci +5

      Absolutely! Mediterranean people have so much in common. We share so much history!

    • @user-oh7xo4xl6h
      @user-oh7xo4xl6h Před 3 měsíci +6

      Είναι το θαύμα της Ελληνικής Ιστορίας ❤❤❤❤αρχαίο πνεύμα αθάνατο ❤❤❤

  • @kostaskourkounakis9230
    @kostaskourkounakis9230 Před 4 měsíci +46

    It's really nice that the Greek language and culture was able to survive for so long in this village. I hope it stays that way.

  • @Chloe-hu9tf
    @Chloe-hu9tf Před 4 měsíci +93

    Tey speak the Griko language and it is really unique! Great video! The Griko must be preserved. I wish UNESKO , Greece and Italy, the EU to take action

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 4 měsíci +3

      Thank you Chloe. You're absolutely right!

    • @aristotle_4532
      @aristotle_4532 Před 4 měsíci

      ​@@TravelDialoguesI saw an instruction poster for the virus in this language, and it was official, from the Italian government.

    • @lalbash7543
      @lalbash7543 Před 2 měsíci

      Shut up fucking impostors they speak Albanian Arbresh dialekt
      Just search you wil see
      Fucking propaganda

    • @BigChef47
      @BigChef47 Před 5 dny

      They speak Albanian

    • @Gaming__-vc8tg
      @Gaming__-vc8tg Před 4 hodinami

      ​@@BigChef47poor kid without history triggered lol only thing Albanians are known for is Dua lipa And drug mafia 🤡

  • @slkonnaris8477
    @slkonnaris8477 Před 6 měsíci +118

    Wonderful!! I first heard about people in some parts of Italy still speaking Greek a few years ago. It’s amazing, people in Italy speaking Greek since the time of Magna Grecia. Thank you for this fantastic video. You have captured some real living history here!!!!

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 6 měsíci +6

      Thank you for your comment! Yes, it was truly an incredible experience to hear so many people speaking Greek in Italy... as their first language!

    • @JG-ec9sp
      @JG-ec9sp Před 4 měsíci

      They speak e "mixed " words of modern greek and italian.50% of either language in every sentense....
      Not even close to the "koine"...
      Shouldnt they speak the old greek language instead of the modern greek language they speak for the claim they have of being decendants of "magna grecia" to have a base???
      A NICE TURIST TRAP...

  • @georgios_5342
    @georgios_5342 Před 4 měsíci +42

    Thank you very much for this trip! You're showing the world a tradition that stretches back to the beginning of history. Magna Graecia salutes you! 🇬🇷♥️🇮🇹

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 4 měsíci +1

      Thank you Georgios! We're glad you enjoyed the video!

  • @user-xk3do3mb6h
    @user-xk3do3mb6h Před 4 měsíci +15

    Αχ Ελλάδα μου πόσο μεγαλη ήσουν!! Καλημέρα,πως είστε Magna Grecia!!

  • @dimitrispvoice133
    @dimitrispvoice133 Před 3 měsíci +72

    As a Cypriot I notice that Calabria's greci is more similar to Cyprus' greek dialect rather than Greece's modern greek. Fascinating!

    • @user-nz5wf3qm5y
      @user-nz5wf3qm5y Před 3 měsíci +11

      ΕΙΜΑΣΤΕ ΟΛΟΙ ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ 🇬🇷🇨🇾🇮🇹

    • @Chloe-hu9tf
      @Chloe-hu9tf Před 2 měsíci +3

      To griko then exei tis turkikes lekseis!!!!!!!. Megali diafora!!.Greetings to Sypres

    • @petera618
      @petera618 Před 2 měsíci +5

      That's very interesting. Many people have mentioned the similarities with Cypriot Greek.
      What I find also interesting is that both sides of my family are from the north coast of Sicily and I recently did my DNA test and other than mostly Southern Italian and some northern Italian, my third largest genetic marker is Cypriot.

    • @archon3363
      @archon3363 Před 2 měsíci +9

      The Greeks who lived in Southern Italy were Doric Spartan , the same goes for Cyprus. The Spartan dialect was very different to the Ionian or Aeolian Greek.

    • @perseusarkouda
      @perseusarkouda Před 2 měsíci +2

      @@archon3363To add to that Koine Greek (Hellinistic era common language) was based on Ionian, then it evolved to medieval Greek and now to modern Greek. The other dialects pretty much died out. It's interesting to see about the Tsakonian dialect which is proven to be a descendant of Doric.

  • @DeslenEleftheriadi-wj1gg
    @DeslenEleftheriadi-wj1gg Před 4 měsíci +26

    ❤❤❤ love Italy and all the Italians. Una fatsa Una ratsa ❤ love to Bella Italia from Greece

  • @chrisgioko
    @chrisgioko Před 3 měsíci +14

    As a Greek, this brought tears to my eyes, truly fascinating. I hope I get the chance to travel southern Italy at some point. Cheers!

    • @andy6334
      @andy6334 Před 2 měsíci

      This is Calabria

    • @chrisgioko
      @chrisgioko Před 2 měsíci

      @@andy6334 Yeah, meant to say southern Italy!

    • @andy6334
      @andy6334 Před 2 měsíci

      @@chrisgioko Yes, but Sicily an Calabria are two different regions.

    • @chrisgioko
      @chrisgioko Před měsícem

      @@andy6334 Yeah yeah, I know. Still very close though.

  • @giorgos5901
    @giorgos5901 Před 3 měsíci +14

    as a greek i love italy!

  • @Hope_Boat
    @Hope_Boat Před 3 měsíci +14

    Love to all Greeks of Magna Graecia from the Cyclades. Na'ste oli kala.

  • @h.-n.a.6630
    @h.-n.a.6630 Před 6 měsíci +42

    I suggest to all visitors to take the chance to attend the Greek-Orthodox Holly Service in Sunday morning(10:30 winter/09:30summer)in Galiciano. This is a unique experience!

  • @kostaskourkounakis9230
    @kostaskourkounakis9230 Před 4 měsíci +15

    I am Greek myself and have never heard of the village. This makes me want to come visit Galliciano all the more. 🇬🇷❤️🇮🇹

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 4 měsíci

      We really hope you'll be able to visit beautiful Gallicianò one day!

  • @Stevo-klo45453
    @Stevo-klo45453 Před 3 měsíci +9

    As a Greek I used to tell all my southern Italian friends about them being related to Greco people then Northern Italy. They all laughed at me- I love history and much love to the southern Italians and all Italians from Greece.

    • @LondonPower
      @LondonPower Před 2 měsíci +3

      They laughed bucause true make people to laugh 😂😂

    • @Stevo-klo45453
      @Stevo-klo45453 Před 2 měsíci

      @@LondonPower that’s a good observation brother

    • @francisdrake7060
      @francisdrake7060 Před 24 dny +3

      ​@@Stevo-klo45453 It's just your personal experience, we are very well taught about this in school and we study "greco-roman civilization", my grandpa was from Lucania, I have greek blood too, you met very ignorant people because we saw it as a pride not a shame.

    • @giulioBonati
      @giulioBonati Před 2 dny +1

      Strange. in Southern Italy we know perfectly well that we are descendants of the Greeks. in my town everything reminds of Greece. We even spell the city name in greek

  • @georgiosa.9893
    @georgiosa.9893 Před 5 měsíci +31

    In modern Greek:
    -Pos iste?
    -Kala!

    • @maskinisten019
      @maskinisten019 Před měsícem

      😂 that is Albanian

    • @andc5918
      @andc5918 Před 17 dny +3

      @@maskinisten019 nothing in this world is Albanian. Not even the people who call themselves Albanian

  • @KaterinaFerrara
    @KaterinaFerrara Před 5 měsíci +36

    Un bel video. Studio Greco moderno adesso. Era bella di imparare che c’è una città così ❤

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 5 měsíci +1

      Grazie Katerina! Assolutamente, anche per noi è stato veramente bello visitare una cittadina come Gallicianò. In bocca al lupo con lo studio del Greco moderno!

    • @albionrovers6018
      @albionrovers6018 Před 3 měsíci

      Se studiavi il greco antico toccava parlare in Albanese

    • @user-nz5wf3qm5y
      @user-nz5wf3qm5y Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@albionrovers6018🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @Al-ml3vk
      @Al-ml3vk Před 2 měsíci

      Rubbish

  • @RaniaLiva
    @RaniaLiva Před 3 měsíci +10

    that video was really heart warming!!!
    as a Greek I really feel Italy so close...we have so many things in common I wish one day I'll be able to visit this amazing place!
    love you Italy...sending greetings!❤

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 3 měsíci

      Thank you for your kind words! We really hope you'll be able to visit Gallicianò one day! Sending a big hug to beautiful Greece!

  • @thodoriskarapanos362
    @thodoriskarapanos362 Před 5 měsíci +39

    A really nice tour. As a greek ,after your video guys i want to visit Gallicianò! Thank you !

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 5 měsíci +2

      Thank you so much! We hope you'll get a chance to visit it soon!

  • @dekkstar8452
    @dekkstar8452 Před 2 měsíci +3

    I am not surprised at all Italy was from Naples (nea poli) to Sicilly Greek collonys made for Agriculture.... They are basically Greek.

  • @PerfectBalance21
    @PerfectBalance21 Před 4 měsíci +13

    Viva Magna Grecia!

  • @user-yl1wu1xd3n
    @user-yl1wu1xd3n Před 4 měsíci +14

    Noi siamo la MAGNA GRECIA ! Love to Italy from greece

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 4 měsíci +1

      Thank you so much! Much love to Greece!

    • @albionrovers6018
      @albionrovers6018 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Sono Arvanites quelli che vedi non sono greci😂

    • @user-nz5wf3qm5y
      @user-nz5wf3qm5y Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@albionrovers6018Sono Arvanites Greci Non Albani

    • @southepirote7676
      @southepirote7676 Před 2 měsíci

      @@user-er3bx8qb1j Greece is a fake country created by European powers to prevent Albanian and Turkish access to Aegean and Ionian sea.

    • @southepirote7676
      @southepirote7676 Před 2 měsíci

      @@user-nz5wf3qm5y Western Greeks are assimilated orthodox Albanians. Eastern Greeks are TurkoSlavs.

  • @diogeniscruyff1084
    @diogeniscruyff1084 Před 3 měsíci +7

    Γειά σας Ελληνες, αδέρφια....

  • @UNr34
    @UNr34 Před 3 měsíci +4

    Wow. It's crazy and inspiring that after all these centuries those villages kept their unique language and identity.

  • @RumGreek
    @RumGreek Před 3 měsíci +6

    Magna grecia ! Kalimèra apo tin ellada! Σας αγαπάμε αδέρφια!

    • @user-nz5wf3qm5y
      @user-nz5wf3qm5y Před 3 měsíci +2

      Aύτοι είναι περισσότερο Έλληνες από ότι εμείς μακάρι μια μέρα να με αξιώσει ο Θεός να επισκεφθώ την Magna Grecia 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

    • @RumGreek
      @RumGreek Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@user-nz5wf3qm5y δεν θα έλεγα ότι είναι περισσότερο από εμάς αλλά ναι όντος έχουν βαθιές ελληνικές ριζες! Έχω πάει Σικελία αλλά ποτέ στην νότια Ιταλία. Η Νεάπολη θέλω να επισκεφτώ...

    • @user-nz5wf3qm5y
      @user-nz5wf3qm5y Před 3 měsíci

      @@RumGreek αυτοί τουλάχιστον είναι πατριώτες νιώθουν περήφανοι για τις ρίζες τους και γνωρίζουν την ιστορία πολύ καλά όχι σαν εμάς που η δικιά μας νεολαία στην πλειοψηφία της δεν έχει ιδέα από Ελληνική ιστορία και ψηφίζει κάθε φορά στις εκλογές Μητσοτάκη δαγκωτό για ένα εκατοπενηντάρικο γι'αυτό πάμε κατά διαόλου

    • @user-nz5wf3qm5y
      @user-nz5wf3qm5y Před 3 měsíci

      @@RumGreek Αυτοί ξέρουν τις ελληνικές τους ρίζες και την ελληνική ιστορία πολύ καλύτερα από εμάς και δεν θα ψήφιζαν ποτέ έναν ανθέλληνα διεφθαρμένο προδότη ονόματι Μητσοτάκη

  • @georgios_5342
    @georgios_5342 Před 4 měsíci +10

    9:43 the sign is bilingual, in Griko and modern Greek. The Griko up top is slightly different from the standard Greek in the bottop. So for example rocca is a word that only exists in Griko, the word you see below it, petra, is how we say it in modern Greek. And then similarly kiazza is from Italian piazza, the Greek word is platia. So there are some small differences in vocabulary.

  • @jetjegoesdutch7933
    @jetjegoesdutch7933 Před 6 měsíci +13

    thank you so much.. loved it so much. i am earning the greek laguage and with that comes learning about culture and history too of course. been to greece many times and it truly feels like i was in greece for a bit. juliette from holland xxx

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 6 měsíci

      Thank you Juliette! Glad to read you enjoyed it. Good luck with your journey - learning another language is always an amazing adventure!

  • @zpetraki5015
    @zpetraki5015 Před 3 měsíci +4

    They are the vibrant remnants of a great classical past that spoke Hellenic and worshipped Greek gods.

  • @Ur_80
    @Ur_80 Před 3 měsíci +5

    Νιώθω πολύ χαρούμενος που Έλληνες εξακολουθούν να υπάρχουν στην γιτονική Ιταλία!

  • @user-tj3to6ps9t
    @user-tj3to6ps9t Před 4 měsíci +14

    I love Grinco, these Greeks have amazing accent. Love from Greece ❤

  • @dimitrisk.875
    @dimitrisk.875 Před 4 měsíci +11

    I just love the combined sound of Italian and my mother language, thank you for this video, happy travels!

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 4 měsíci +1

      Thank you Dimitris! We're so glad you enjoyed the video!

  • @acentialpapd9418
    @acentialpapd9418 Před 4 měsíci +7

    The locals look very much like my father's origin in Lasithi (Eastern Crete Greece) and the landscape is pretty identical. Now I wanna visit this place so bad . Greetings to you fare thee well and take care on your travels .

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 4 měsíci

      Crete must also be a magical place to visit. We really hope you'll be able to travel to Gallicianò one day!

    • @acentialpapd9418
      @acentialpapd9418 Před 4 měsíci

      @TravelDialogues should you choose to do so I have a couple of airbnb options and I will be happy to host an Italian cousin

  • @matthewaugustine2376
    @matthewaugustine2376 Před 4 měsíci +23

    Very nice tour. As myself I'm a Cypriot guy, very nice to see the italians speak greek the same way as I do. But if it was a good fact, those houses could've still be open for citizens to live in them.

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 4 měsíci +2

      Thank you for watching Matthew! We hope you'll be able to visit Gallicianò one day!

    • @Greek_Oak
      @Greek_Oak Před 4 měsíci +1

      Όταν τους λες Ιταλούς είναι σαν να τους βρίζεις,Έλληνες είναι οι άνθρωποι.

  • @KonstantinMar
    @KonstantinMar Před 3 měsíci +4

    Non "pos iste te" . é " Πως είστε" ... Pos iste 😊 che buon video!! Avete fatto buon lavoro!

  • @badseednut
    @badseednut Před 3 měsíci +3

    The language is called Grekanika which is a mixture of Greek and Italian. It's beautiful. There are many beautiful songs like "kalinifta" or "klama tou emigrantou : Κλάμα του Εμιγκράντου. Thanks for the video. Great job.

  • @George888e
    @George888e Před 3 měsíci +5

    Kαλησπέρα απο Αθήνα !!!

  • @rudeboyyy1218
    @rudeboyyy1218 Před 4 měsíci +5

    greece and italy have so many in common all from ww2 i learned so many italian words from my grandmather love to italia from greece una fatsa una ratsa ❤

  • @kritoakm9828
    @kritoakm9828 Před 4 měsíci +7

    Σάς αγαπάμε 🇬🇷❤️

  • @joecutro7318
    @joecutro7318 Před 5 měsíci +11

    What a great video and story. With every visit to Italy, I find so many more reasons to return and explore more. Gallicianò just made the list. There is no end to the gems. Mille grazie!!
    ❤🇮🇹🙏

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 5 měsíci

      Joe! Glad to hear you enjoyed it. We hope you'll visit Gallicianò soon. You'll definitely love it!

  • @jerometurner8759
    @jerometurner8759 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Can't get enough of these Greek communities and speakers of Italy. Amazing.

  • @kostaskourkounakis9230
    @kostaskourkounakis9230 Před 4 měsíci +14

    I hope that even if fewer and fewer young people from the village can speak Greek fluently and more and more young people leave the village, Greek culture and language will still survive in Gallicianò. 🇬🇷❤️🇮🇹

  • @sordmasta6646
    @sordmasta6646 Před 5 měsíci +19

    They sound more like the ancient greek we did in school and less like modern greek. I would have to pay close attention to understand them.
    Sad to see this old dialect die out, from the unification's organic switch to italian, and mussolini's persecution of it, I guess it's only natural.
    At least our italian cousins didn't genocide/exile/convert them like turkey did.
    I want to do a road trip in south italy and sicily so badly :)

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 5 měsíci +6

      They definitely consider themselves closer to ancient rather than modern Greeks. In fact, some of them who visited Greece said they were able to communicate but that the languages didn't match perfectly.
      Hopefully the work people are doing in places like Gallicianò, Bova, and other towns in the Calabria Grecanica, will serve to preserve the language and culture of this beautiful region.
      We hope you'll be able to have your road trip in Southern Italy. It's definitely a dream experience!

    • @Hikaeme-od3zq
      @Hikaeme-od3zq Před 2 měsíci +1

      It wasn't an organic switch at all, people from all of Italy, and especially the South (and to some extent the Veneto region too) still speak their regional dialect very much so, and italian was imposed on them even before Mussolini. It's very sad and Greek was actually more broadly spoken in Calabria and in Apulia too, there were even significant Orthodox communities that kept the language, the culture and the religion alive, but they were heavily persecuted the same way.

    • @andy6334
      @andy6334 Před 2 měsíci

      Mussolini don’t arrived here…

  • @sophiam3923
    @sophiam3923 Před 4 měsíci +39

    When the Roman Empire went to Greece they absolutely loved everything they had. Ruins, food, wine, oil….. Everything. So they took the Greek architects, engineers and builders and developers they had and took them to build Italy as it is today. That is why they have ruins and statues and food almost the same. Greeks had gods, romans created their gods same. Greeks had foods Italians did the same. Oil is not the same because of soil and Greek oil is the best in the world. Southern Italy knows the truth and till this day they call it little Greece. Northern Italy doesn’t say nothing. Doesn’t matter. It shows and history is history. Thank you for the video. Amazing! Italy 🇮🇹 and Greece 🇬🇷 related.

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 4 měsíci +7

      Thank you so much Sophia, we really appreciate the support!

    • @sophiam3923
      @sophiam3923 Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@TravelDialogues love your work. Real and genuine. Love.❤️

    • @nikostheofanidis9970
      @nikostheofanidis9970 Před 3 měsíci +5

      North Italians are genetically close to France Spanish swiss and very little to balkan (greek and other), so they are mix of Latin and German with little paleobalkan. Central Italians are genetically close to Greeks (to mainland greeks, almost all Greeks are mainland) and Albanians, so they are paleobalkan people (Greeks illyrians Thracians Dacians), south Italians are genetically close to Islander Greeks and to Jews. So as you can see the central Italians is Greeks genetically Paleobalkan People, they are closer to Greeks than the South Italians, but South Italians are close to islander Greeks

    • @sophiam3923
      @sophiam3923 Před 3 měsíci +5

      @@nikostheofanidis9970 first of all. Greeks are more close to Spanish people. If you read history Greeks reached to so many countries and was a very large empire. Romans then had a very large empire too. When they went to Greece they saw everything they had and were admired. They took Greek mathematicians , architects, mechanics, philosophers, teachers, cooks, everything they had and told them to show them how to do what they knew. That is why many foods have similarities. Greeks were great sailors and reached to Spain . The similarities between the two countries is like brothers. Greeks are not Balkan and never were. Greeks are Greeks. Balkans are Albanians, Bulgarian, Skopje, Croatian, Montenegro …….. all places that was called Yugoslavia. Greeks thousands and thousands of years B.C. they were already a nation. So when Great Alexander who is Greek concurred so many countries reached till Africa and India Read history. For you to know Greeks were never and are not Balkan. Balkan are only the upper countries from Greece in the Former Yugoslavia.

    • @nikostheofanidis9970
      @nikostheofanidis9970 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@sophiam3923 hahahahahahaha

  • @Schwenakasven
    @Schwenakasven Před dnem

    its nice to see that greece and italy appreciate as our neighbours in Europe. Thats something that should always be the future of tomorrow.
    Stay all safe in those hard times that will arrive every year.
    GALLICIANÒ looks so peaceful!. Thanks for this video I enjoyed watching it.

  • @perpirak00
    @perpirak00 Před 4 měsíci +5

    Incredible to see and hear so clear hellinic (greek) in the place! Definetly a place to visit!

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 4 měsíci

      Absolutely! We hope you'll be able to visit Gallicianò one day!

  • @tasosm7x
    @tasosm7x Před 4 měsíci +6

    love from greece guys wish you the best for you and your channel

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 4 měsíci

      Thank you so much. We really appreciate the support!

  • @themyth3686
    @themyth3686 Před 3 měsíci +6

    Thank you for keeping the Greek culture alive
    🇬🇷 ♥ 🇮🇹

  • @user-vi9qg5rv5n
    @user-vi9qg5rv5n Před 3 měsíci +9

    Magna Grecia ❤️🇬🇷

  • @riccardomallardo7779
    @riccardomallardo7779 Před 11 dny

    Greek is spoken in 25 towns of southern italy (15 in Calabria, 9 in Puglia and 1 in Sicily) by a total of around 20.500 people as motherlanguage, but counting also the people who speak it as a second language it goes up to around 52.500 speakers.
    There are also 2 local newspapers in greek and until the mid 80s there were also 3 radio stations

  • @RedDefender77
    @RedDefender77 Před 4 měsíci +5

    Thank you very much for this tour.

  • @thlias2000
    @thlias2000 Před 4 měsíci +5

    Great video! Really enjoyed wathing it. Treating people and culture with such politeness and care. It's sounds really close to cypriot. Thanks!

  • @georgios_5342
    @georgios_5342 Před 4 měsíci +21

    10:00 this sign has 3 languages on it, ancient Greek, Griko (Italiot Greek) and Italian. And it says "The Macedonian people, who are Greek, send greetings to the Italian brothers"

    • @PATRIOTKS
      @PATRIOTKS Před 4 měsíci

      Macedonian people and epirote where Albanian who used the alphabet at that time who today Greeks used it so whe lost that alphabet you not !

    • @TheButterflyInTheCountryside
      @TheButterflyInTheCountryside Před 4 měsíci

      ​@@PATRIOTKS Instead of thinking that the greeks took your language or whatever(I don't know who wrote this history) try to find the quality and your culture that you have as country guys. They all want to steal greek civilisation. Maybe isn't it enough? We are all people and we have the same problems.

    • @nicka.papanikolaou9475
      @nicka.papanikolaou9475 Před 4 měsíci

      @@PATRIOTKS U r psychopathic in your hatred of the Greeks. Kastri;otis, your "national hero" was GReek too, moron!

    • @falenidio9066
      @falenidio9066 Před 4 měsíci +8

      @@PATRIOTKS ooga booga

    • @bagelishalkias4772
      @bagelishalkias4772 Před 4 měsíci +6

      ​@@PATRIOTKS😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
      You have tempest in your head.
      You don't know anything

  • @giuseppedelfino8246
    @giuseppedelfino8246 Před 4 měsíci +15

    Southern Calabria was largely Greek-speaking until the 13th century. Afterwards, under the pressure of the surrounding (Italo-)Romance-speaking culture of continental Italy and Sicily and the decadence of the Byzantine rite caused by the Catholic authorities, Greek was abandoned in favor of (Calabro-)Sicilian and later also Italian, resisting only in some villages in the mountains of the Aspromonte - such as in Gallicianò - until the 20th century due to isolation.

  • @EarlDunn
    @EarlDunn Před 5 měsíci +6

    The video is breathtaking

  • @escobar4794
    @escobar4794 Před 3 měsíci +1

    This is amazing.

  • @JS-cj7jf
    @JS-cj7jf Před 2 měsíci

    Interstate place. Thanks for sharing your travels.

  • @iropappa7842
    @iropappa7842 Před 4 měsíci +11

    Siamo stati con la familiar 6 anni fa in Puglia per visitare i paesini grecani. Lì si parla il griko che è diverso dal dialetto greco in Calabria. Il griko si capisce bene se uno conosce l'italiano e il greco moderno. Nel paesino Kalimera c'è un museo piccolo dove il responsabile conosce il griko e ci ha parlato un po. Si prova di salvare il dialetto tranne i giovanni oggi. Vale la pena visitare Kalimera, Sternatia e altri paesini in Puglia.

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 4 měsíci

      Veramente molto interessante! Abbiamo aggiunto questi paesi alla nostra lista. Magari possiamo visitarli per uno dei prossimi video dall'Italia!

  • @TJBEATSAMV
    @TJBEATSAMV Před 3 měsíci +3

    Great video ! Love to see how they kept speaking the Greek language after all those years !

  • @hugolafhugolaf
    @hugolafhugolaf Před měsícem +1

    Good lord I love Italy...

  • @georgios3113
    @georgios3113 Před 24 dny

    What a beautiful village!

  • @user-zh4yj8rq6l
    @user-zh4yj8rq6l Před 2 měsíci +1

    Great video Great couple Greetings from Greece 🇬🇷

  • @ermis1234
    @ermis1234 Před 2 měsíci

    Enjoyed the post very much, memories came back from my visit to Gallicianò in 1997, unfortunately it was very hard back then to get to find a tour guide so had to just wonder around the village and take pictures. We had been more lucky up at Bova. Thanks for the post.

  • @elenicarter3615
    @elenicarter3615 Před měsícem +2

    Αρχαιο Πνευμα Αθανατο!😊

  • @paulfortomanos8619
    @paulfortomanos8619 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Fantastic video. 💙🤍💚🤍❤

  • @ollie876
    @ollie876 Před 4 měsíci +7

    Such a nice video! I’m also Greek but I can tell this is not Greek language exactly but a dialect called „Greko“ (I think🤔) and it’s more complex than the Greek language itself. Unfortunately only few people in southern Italy speaking the dialect have remained since the dialect is not protected by the law and not taught to younger generations🥲 Such a precious moment though to see how far our ancestors had come. I wish I’ll reach those villages someday and have the chance to talk to these people 🫶🏻 Thank you for sharing 🙏🏻

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 4 měsíci +1

      Thank you so much for this comment Ollie!

    • @elvishiekios8826
      @elvishiekios8826 Před 4 měsíci

      In Magna Grecia now the schools have books at schools to learn Grico!

    • @ollie876
      @ollie876 Před měsícem

      @@elvishiekios8826 Reallyyy? That sounds amazing! In which places specifically?🤔

  • @chrisrafael99
    @chrisrafael99 Před 4 měsíci +3

    So beautiful to see this video from a greek perspective from me !

  • @flawyerlawyertv7454
    @flawyerlawyertv7454 Před měsícem

    Incredible! 🤩

  • @epistimonas35
    @epistimonas35 Před 4 měsíci +1

    watching this as a greek speaker and even having the cyprus accend feels nice

  • @user-fz2no4lq8o
    @user-fz2no4lq8o Před 5 měsíci +3

    Thanks for sharing and congrats on your new channel. You work well together.

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 5 měsíci

      Thank you very much for the support! Many more videos to come!

  • @TankaNafaka
    @TankaNafaka Před 4 měsíci +4

    Thank you for this. Much love from 🇩🇰

  • @JohnTsibidis
    @JohnTsibidis Před 3 měsíci +2

    Nice place - nice video! Kalimera!

  • @Eleni_Evripioti
    @Eleni_Evripioti Před 8 dny

    Your vlog is excellent!!!! Εξαιρετικό!!! Thank you!!! Σας ευχαριστούμε!!!🙏🏻🙏🏻

  • @paokpantou6021
    @paokpantou6021 Před 4 měsíci +30

    Μπραβο παιδιά

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 4 měsíci +9

      ευχαριστώ! We hope that's the right way to write it!

    • @paokpantou6021
      @paokpantou6021 Před 4 měsíci +6

      @@TravelDialogues Σωστά το έγραψες.

    • @-BlackMamba-
      @-BlackMamba- Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@TravelDialogues yeap thats correct

  • @marmeris
    @marmeris Před 3 měsíci +2

    It's close enough but the accurate greek is not "istete"... It's "πως είσαστε;" (pos isaste) or "Πως είστε" (pos iste) which is the short version of the same verb! So nice to hear people out of Greece speaking Greek though!! Not to mention that views and scenery is almost identical to Peloponise! Very similar vibes!

    • @SAMSAM-ys3rs
      @SAMSAM-ys3rs Před 17 dny +1

      It's not supposed to be nowadays Greek. It comes from either Hellenic Greek or Byzantine Greek so the language is not the same as nowadays Greek from Greece, cause while they come from the same root they morphed

  • @Trapligo
    @Trapligo Před 4 měsíci +4

    Fun fact in greece we saying only : pws iste instead of : pws iste te which you can say too : ti kanete for how are you

  • @elenicarter3615
    @elenicarter3615 Před měsícem

    Ευχαριστουμε για το βιντεο!

  • @user-qe6lk7sv2v
    @user-qe6lk7sv2v Před 4 měsíci

    Incredible

  • @stevenpapageorge
    @stevenpapageorge Před 3 měsíci +1

    Nice video !!!

  • @electra1920
    @electra1920 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Beautiful video, beautiful place...❤

  • @StergiosMekras
    @StergiosMekras Před 12 minutami

    Oh that's Greek alright, but based on a much older version. Fascinating... I should visit at some point.

  • @kostaskourkounakis9230
    @kostaskourkounakis9230 Před 4 měsíci +2

    This village is so pretty and the people are so beautiful ❤

  • @gracielicastro9731
    @gracielicastro9731 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Beautiful ❤

  • @kolovaxata
    @kolovaxata Před 3 měsíci +1

    Greetings from Greece! ❤️ Na iste oloi kala !

  • @apostolosmaniscalco3613
    @apostolosmaniscalco3613 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Grazie tanto per in molto bello e interessante video che avete fatto! Siete due molto brave e dolce persone! Un Greco!!

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 3 měsíci +1

      Grazie mille per questo bel commento, caro amico! Un abbraccio da un amico italiano e un'amica statunitense!

    • @apostolosmaniscalco3613
      @apostolosmaniscalco3613 Před 3 měsíci

      @@TravelDialogues Grazie mille!
      Se mai venissi nel nord della Grecia, dove io e mia moglie viviamo vicino a Salonicco, contattaci e saremo felici di portarti in giro!!
      Aspetto con ansia il prossimo video!! Stammi bene!

  • @armandalikaj
    @armandalikaj Před 3 měsíci +3

    Same thing as the Albanian 🇦🇱 Arbëreshë from Piana degli Albanesi that came to South 🇮🇹 from Morea

    • @user-nz5wf3qm5y
      @user-nz5wf3qm5y Před 3 měsíci

      How Many Of Them Are In Italy Today?

    • @armandalikaj
      @armandalikaj Před 2 měsíci

      @MrPolinikis Albanians are known for speaking several foreign languages

    • @armandalikaj
      @armandalikaj Před 2 měsíci

      @user-nz5wf3qm5y
      The Arbëreshë (pronounced [aɾbəˈɾɛʃ]; Albanian: Arbëreshët e Italisë; Italian: Albanesi d'Italia), also known as Albanians of Italy or Italo-Albanians, are an Albanian ethnolinguistic group minority historically settled in Southern and Insular Italy (in the regions of Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania, Molise, mostly concentrated in the region of Calabria and Sicily)
      They are the descendants of Albanian refugees settled in the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily who fled from Albania, Epirus, and later some from the numerous Albanian communities of Attica and Morea, between the 14th and the 18th centuries following the death of the national hero Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg and the gradual conquest of the Balkans by the Ottoman Turks. Their culture is determined by the main features that are found in language, religious rite, traditional costume, art and gastronomy, still zealously preserved, with the awareness of belonging to a specific ethnic group

    • @armandalikaj
      @armandalikaj Před 2 měsíci +1

      Over the centuries, the Arbëreshë have managed to maintain and develop their identities, thanks to their cultural value exercised mainly by the religious communities of the Byzantine Rite
      Nowadays, most of the fifty Arbëreshë communities are adherents to the Italo-Albanian Church, an Eastern Catholic Church. They belong to two eparchies, the Lungro, for the Arbëreshë of Continental Italy, the Piana degli Albanesi, for the Arbëreshë of Sicily, and the Monastery of Grottaferrata of Lazio, whose Basilian monks come largely from the Albanian settlements of Italy. The church is the most important organization for maintaining the characteristic religious, ethnic, linguistic and traditional identity of the Arbëreshë community
      The Arbëreshë speak Arbërisht, an old variant of the Albanian language and derives from the Tosk Albanian spoken in central-southern Albania and Epirus
      In Italy the Albanian Arbëresh language is protected by law number 482/99, concerning the protection of the historic linguistic minorities

    • @dimitriosvlissides5781
      @dimitriosvlissides5781 Před měsícem

      ​@@armandalikajthe arvanites that came there basically were of greek conscience THEY SPOKE GREEK READ GREEK AND THEIR TRANSUCTIONS WERE IN GREEK
      HOW they become albanized its a Papal elaboration and Mussolinis efforts
      La piana dei Greci diventa piana albanezi thanks to the mussolinis regime

  • @peterlampropoulos3505
    @peterlampropoulos3505 Před měsícem

    Nice video! Do one on Evander of Palantium.

  • @TheChalaros
    @TheChalaros Před 3 měsíci +6

    I am sad the Greece and Italy did not support this part of history and dialect... it seems that this village has not a lot of people and life

  • @nnaflessa5469
    @nnaflessa5469 Před 9 dny

    I like that you visited these people 🙌
    I love Italy, because Italy has beautiful people, good wine, delicious food and very nice Songs. And in general it is a very beautiful country.
    Thanks for the nice Video
    Kisses from Greece 😍😘

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 7 dny +1

      Thank you for your kind words Anna!
      Kisses from Italy!

  • @giovanninicolaii
    @giovanninicolaii Před 21 dnem +1

    Io sono nato e cresciuto a reggio calabria, sin da piccoli ci viene insegnata la storia della magna grecia ma secondo me non viene valorizzata adeguatamente ed i vostri video sono molto utili

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 20 dny

      Caro Giovanni, grazie mille di questo commento. Siamo molto contenti di sapere che questi video servano a valorizzare storie meravigliose come questa!

  • @dimimaiden
    @dimimaiden Před 3 měsíci +2

    Thank you both for this great clip.
    Fascinating place.

  • @menelaossavvidis3680
    @menelaossavvidis3680 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Εκπληκτικό βίντεο,συγχαρητήρια στους συντελεστές!

    • @TravelDialogues
      @TravelDialogues  Před 3 měsíci

      Thank you so much. We really appreciate the support!