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00:00:00Good morning, thank you and this edition of
00:00:02Record News rural ends here, thank you very much for your
00:00:06company, have a great Friday, have a great weekend, see you later,
00:00:28and you're going to embark on a trip through... 14 cities in Italy
00:00:32to show how food, culture and sports
00:00:35bring so many Brazilians and Italians closer together.
00:00:50For days and days, this was the only view of
00:00:53men, women and children who crossed the
00:00:56Atlantic, grandparents and great-grandparents of many.
00:01:04In their luggage, in addition to the dreams of a better life, the
00:01:07memories of flavors, music,
00:01:10cities.
00:01:13The great immigration happened when Italy was going through economic,
00:01:17political and social difficulties. Entire
00:01:20families sold the little they had, leaving where they lived in
00:01:24and famous places in Italy, the Italian territory to embark on a ship to America.
00:01:27Between 1860 and... 1920, about
00:01:317 million Italians
00:01:35my mother used to say: "Oh, when you get to Italy, there's this word, that word," moved to Brazil with the idea of building a better life. One of the main exits to the
00:01:38Atlantic was here, in the Old Port of
00:01:40Genoa.
00:01:47Because here were the companies, here were the
00:01:51shipowners, 200 to 3,000 people
00:01:55together. Almost all of this was third
00:01:59class, immigrant class, this was a
00:02:02complicated life,
00:02:11think that's fantastic, I find it very curious, the the difference between social classes was already perceived by the type of luggage, immigrants
00:02:15used to use bags like these here to
00:02:18store the few belongings they had that they could
00:02:21take. However, merchants and aristocrats
00:02:25used chests and leather suitcases like these
00:02:28here. The difficulty was not
00:02:31only in arriving with suitcases, but
00:02:34also in sleeping and living among
00:02:37people, in this place here it was a
00:02:41male lodging where the beds were
00:02:44extremely close, everything was collective, some
00:02:48details, objects portray exactly how these
00:02:51immigrants
00:02:52lived.
00:03:01Here, in this place, everything is the same
00:03:04port cities, the as 150 years ago, photographic records and documents of
00:03:08entire families. The largest number of immigrants
00:03:11left villages and small cities like these.
00:03:15Most of the Veneto region, including the great-great-grandparents of this
00:03:19woman.
00:03:22This is the only photo of the couple together, shortly before
00:03:25embarking for Brazil in 1883.
00:03:29Emigra. a 2-month-old child, which was not
00:03:32a case, it's not just her who does this,
00:03:36we start to wonder, gosh, but with a 2-month-old child, one of 3
00:03:40years, 6, 11, 14 and
00:03:4317 years, how much difficulty this person
00:03:46went through,
00:03:49men and women came to work on coffee farms in São
00:03:53Paulo and Minas Gerais, to replace slave
00:03:56labor. The passages were paid by the Brazilian government.
00:04:02São Paulo had 30 thousand inhabitants, only in
00:04:051891
00:04:07almost 90 thousand people passed through the immigrant hostel, most
00:04:11of them from Italy, so you see that in just one year, three times the population
00:04:15that São Paulo had passed, but the
00:04:17country needed families to explore areas and
00:04:20definitively occupy Brazil. Lands were
00:04:23promised to those who went to the states of Espírito
00:04:26Santo, Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande.
00:04:32ricotta with egg They initially go to the Bento
00:04:36Gonçalves region, eh, stay there for a few years and then
00:04:40settle in the central region of Rio
00:04:44Grande do Sul, which is now called São João do
00:04:46Polesne. The communication with those who remained in the
00:04:50old continent was very limited. Letters were
00:04:53not enough for so much news. The family
00:04:56grew, children and grandchildren of Luigia of so many. The
00:05:00other Italians were born and grew up, I
00:05:03was packing my suitcase when I was little, I used to say:
00:05:06Lombardy, but especially the region of goodbye mom, I'm going to Italy, to grandma's land, I was 4
00:05:08years old, a photo published on the internet brought...
00:05:12clues for Katia to discover a part of the family that still lives
00:05:16in Italy. Two years ago,
00:05:20Hilenea contacted me through social networks because I had posted
00:05:23this photo that is in the book, which is the only photo we have of the couple who
00:05:27migrated and she already with the photo told me: but we are
00:05:31relatives, we are relatives, from then on
00:05:34a world opened up, a world that went
00:05:37many turns and a link, Brazil and Italy reunited
00:05:40again, following the dream of... a child, a gaucha
00:05:43descendant of the first Italians made the inverse path
00:05:47of her great-great-grandparents and came to live in Italy, but unlike the
00:05:50old relatives, the objective was not to explore new
00:05:54horizons, but rather to get to know her own
00:05:57history. After 150
00:06:00years, brought this whole circle back
00:06:04Luigia is us, is any immigrant
00:06:08woman.
00:12:25In this small town in northern Italy, Mr. Oreste,
00:12:2888 years old, and his granddaughter, 33,
00:12:32converse in a dialect, a common situation in small
00:12:35towns.
00:12:38I prefer to speak the Venetian dialect than the Italian language, I only use it when
00:12:42writing. Even today, in fact, I even feel
00:12:46more from Veneto than from
00:12:47Italy.
00:12:57Visiting several cities in Italy, it is clear that
00:13:01the people are immensely proud of the place where they live, in addition to the official
00:13:04Italian language, each part of the country uses
00:13:08a different dialect to communicate among residents
00:13:12in the streets and also with
00:13:13family.
00:13:17Even with a fluent granddaughter, Mr. Oreste is pessimistic, for
00:13:21him not all young people know the dialect of more than 600.
00:13:27I regret that not all of the new generation continues like this, the dialect may be getting
00:13:31lost.
00:13:35What may seem like an alphabet soup coming our way,
00:13:38reveals one of the oldest civilizations in the world. In
00:13:42villages like these, even notices on some signs
00:13:46are written in dialect, like this one that indicates the name of a
00:13:49neighborhood. Leandro is Brazilian and when he came to work
00:13:53in this Italian city, the young man never imagined that the
00:13:57language spoken here was not Italian, but
00:13:59Bergamasco. Where I worked, people had been working at the company for 20
00:14:03years, 30, right, so they spoke Bergamasco
00:14:06among themselves, so, there were even funny situations because there was me and another
00:14:10Brazilian. Then my boss would come by and say: "Speak Italian!"
00:14:13Then he would turn to me and say, "But not even you speak Italian!" Like, he
00:14:17gave, right?
00:14:21In the great Italian division, each
00:14:23city had its peculiar
00:14:26dialect.
00:14:28Throughout Italy, it is estimated that there are at least 30
00:14:31dialects, according to this professor, languages restricted
00:14:35to small communities are millennia-old legacies.
00:14:38Dialects are older than Italy
00:14:41itself.
00:14:43Three great crowns of the Italian language, Dante
00:14:46Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca and Giovanni
00:14:50Boccaccio assomina this Italian as a model was
00:14:53something academic. In a special way, from
00:14:561500 onwards, Italian consolidated itself as a
00:15:00cultured language that was spoken in academies,
00:15:04in universities, something for the cultured that almost no one
00:15:07spoke in the street.
00:15:11In this other nearby region, one of the most beautiful in the country,
00:15:15is another dialect, a mixture of accents and expressions with influence
00:15:19from neighboring European countries, a
00:15:22mixture of languages.
00:15:25It's interesting because, for example,
00:15:27here,
00:15:31Italian lakes,
00:15:33the dialect has a lot of influence
00:15:35and words from... French and Spanish,
00:15:39but it also has words that are of Portuguese
00:15:42origin.
00:15:45This man runs one of the largest cultural study centers in
00:15:48Italy. For him, these combinations do not weaken
00:15:51the country or the Italian language, on the contrary.
00:15:54And
00:16:01they are a strong symbol of a national formation that continues
00:16:05for generations.
00:16:10A short time ago, Antônio had a surprise, he
00:16:13spent two weeks in southern Brazil and discovered that the
00:16:17old Italian immigrants had taken to cities in
00:16:20Santa Catarina the same dialects from regions
00:16:24in northern Italy. 500
00:16:50thousand people in 133
00:16:57Brazilian cities communicate like this in six states,
00:17:00including Santa Catarina, even separated by an
00:17:04ocean, two countries linked. more than
00:17:08100 years,
00:17:12then when I got here I said,
00:17:16"Dude, that's not Italian," then I
00:17:19realized that was Veneto, because my mother
00:17:22lived with her grandmother and the words she spoke were Veneto, and you
00:17:25meet people like that, the older ones who don't even like
00:17:29to speak Italian, they say, "Oh, don't, don't call
00:17:32me Italian," so I
00:17:49seasoning is a family
00:17:51secret, she's saying it's like a
00:17:54muscle workout for the
00:17:55arms.
00:18:02But what in Italy is considered art deserves even
00:18:05applause.
00:18:10Thank you,
00:18:13today we are going to eat a very special dish from the Sotoriva
00:18:16family, we were invited to help prepare
00:18:20bigoli pasta, which
00:18:23is a type of pasta very common in the Veneto
00:18:26region and now I'm going to meet this family, Dona
00:18:30Maria Teresa, grandma, come
00:18:32with me. Ciao,
00:18:35buongiorno. Welcome, how
00:18:38are you?
00:18:42Maria Teresa, 82 years old, was born and raised in this
00:18:45small town in northern Italy, she is the one who
00:18:49makes the pasta. In addition to her experience, the recipe includes
00:18:53flour, eggs and a little
00:18:55wine.
00:18:58The shape looks like spaghetti, but it isn't,
00:19:02it's traditional bigoli is very traditional,
00:19:06bigoli itself is from...
00:19:17She mixes, kneads, opens the dough with great
00:19:20skill,
00:19:22the wooden rolling pin was made by her father and kept with affection
00:19:26until today.
00:19:30Salt in the water, pasta on the stove, she asks an
00:19:33important question,
00:19:36how many people are we?
00:21:42enough to create strong ties between Brazil and
00:21:45Italy, including between port
00:21:48cities, Santos and...
00:22:07We are within this partnership, moving many areas, the
00:22:10port itself, everything related to logistics and
00:22:14transport, another important point is tourism and Italians will
00:22:17be able to see where their grandparents arrived.
00:22:52Our team came to see the similarities and
00:22:55differences between Santos and its older sister
00:22:59Genoa. Genoa has more than
00:23:01550 thousand inhabitants, a slightly
00:23:05larger number than the city of Santos. The old
00:23:08buildings invariably have green windows,
00:23:12but it's the shops and businesses that catch the
00:23:15eye. Some are 250 years old,
00:23:18like this one. One of the most traditional confectionery shops in
00:23:22the city, sweets that look like
00:23:25jewels.
00:23:28Anywhere in the world, ports provide economic conditions and are
00:23:31capable of changing a region. Today, Italy still breathes this
00:23:35proximity to the sea, but now with cruise ships for
00:23:39tourism. Logically, Genoa has changed. Today it is a city of
00:23:43gastronomy and reveals the modern way of life of
00:23:46Italians. And both here in Italy
00:23:50and in Brazil, the characteristic of
00:23:54friendliness and the cordial way of
00:23:56welcoming, is the case of the owner of this
00:23:59butcher shop.
00:24:03This test is very cool and old, and
00:24:07old.
00:24:10Mateu darkens everything and places one of the eggs for sale in the
00:24:13beam of light, he guarantees that this is the only
00:24:17test to know if the egg is fresh.
00:24:21It's easy, look, the less air inside the egg, like here on
00:24:25top, the fresher, logically, the product is not
00:24:29past its prime, with this, our customers can have a very
00:24:32fresh product, ideal for making good pasta or
00:24:36tiramisu, for example.
00:24:40The business is 113 years old, Mateu's
00:24:43of the fourth generation of
00:24:46merchants and are still active.
00:24:52We have been at this address since 1967
00:24:56and we use the same recipes. They
00:25:00guarantee delicious recipes and honesty when
00:25:04selling is what keeps the doors of all these businesses
00:25:08open for more than a
00:25:09century.
00:25:12What we do here is the same as what we would do in our own home,
00:25:15it's like this here and that's why I'm very
00:25:18happy.
00:25:29documents kept under lock and key,
00:25:32preserved with great care, if
00:25:35we put all the papers together, the pile
00:25:39would reach more than 14
00:25:41km.
00:25:47All the people who were born, married and
00:25:51died in northern Italy are registered
00:25:54here from 1871
00:25:57to
00:25:591945, if a person emigrated and then married in Brazil.
00:26:10In this room are the histories of many descendants of
00:26:13Italians, these are documents that help foreigners to
00:26:17prove that their relatives lived in Italy.
00:26:21Cássia came looking for these records and never
00:26:24left. Today, the Brazilian works and lives in the
00:26:27same city as her maternal
00:26:29great-grandfather.
00:26:32They never had the opportunity to see their
00:26:35family, see their parents, see anyone, they left everyone,
00:26:39there were no conditions to return here and be able to do
00:26:42this, I think it's a way to honor, right, all the
00:26:46suffering they went through, even to
00:26:49adapt, right, in another country and without anyone from the
00:26:53family.
00:26:59In this other city, the search for immigrant
00:27:02records, according to local authorities, has grown in the last
00:27:0610 years. Per week, there are at least 30 requests
00:27:10for checking birth and marriage
00:27:13certificates.
00:27:15Today in the country there is a type of tourism focused on these people,
00:27:18descendants with a sentimental heritage, with the Italian language and
00:27:22culture. This Santa Catarina native came looking for her
00:27:26roots and chose to live in Italy.
00:27:29Glaucia remembers the feeling of walking through.
00:27:36where her great-grandfather passed, it's emotional, you know, the first time I
00:27:38was in the city where my great-grandfather
00:27:41was born,
00:27:45it gave me chills, you know, a feeling of, wow, it was
00:27:49from here, it was from here that he left, it's here that he
00:27:53lived, right, to be able to walk
00:27:56in the city where he grew up,
00:28:00look at the houses, even if they are not... the
00:28:04same way they were back then,
00:28:07just like Glaucia's great-grandfather, many
00:28:10Italians learned how to plant and harvest in
00:28:14cold climate areas, valuable lessons that many
00:28:17immigrants took to
00:28:19Brazil.
00:28:23Brazil gave land to immigrant families, but it was virgin land and
00:28:26even
00:28:27forests.
00:28:32After about 3 years it started to bear
00:28:34fruit.
00:28:38The main fruit cultivated is this: special
00:28:42grapes for wines, the climate of the region
00:28:45and the type of soil help.
00:28:48In these underground corridors, bottles and barrels
00:28:51rest while the fermentation of red wines
00:28:55takes place.
00:28:58We are exporting to more than 130 countries and this also
00:29:01generates development.
00:29:36We are known for, it's part of our culture, the Italian
00:29:39espresso and the cappuccino.
00:29:43The passion for coffee is so great that they also
00:29:46invented a dessert that has coffee in its recipe.
00:29:49We are in the Treviso region, which is famous for having invented
00:29:53Tiramisu and today we were invited to enter
00:29:57the house of a typically Italian family who
00:30:01makes Tiramisu. Let's go, ben
00:30:04venuta, now ciao,
00:30:08ben venuta. Morena is a housewife
00:30:11passionate about the dessert, her recipe book has more
00:30:15than 200
00:30:16pages.
00:30:20With great skill, she separates the yolk from the
00:30:23white, mixes six tablespoons of sugar and the
00:30:26yolks, while the egg whites are beaten until they become stiff
00:30:30peaks, then comes... coffee, mascarpone,
00:30:35cream, all in layers, a delicious,
00:30:39very creamy secret of a country,
00:30:42not so secret after all, cheers!
00:30:58You are very welcome.