00:00You know that Italy has a completely surrounded by the Swiss island?
00:03This island, called Campione,
00:05is located on 2,4 km along the coast of the lake of Lugano,
00:10inside the Swiss canton of Tessin.
00:12But how did that happen?
00:14In 1798,
00:16while Tessin decided to become part of the Confederate Confederacy,
00:19the inhabitants of Campione decided to stay in Lombardy.
00:23Later, in 1848,
00:25during the Unification War,
00:26in 1861,
00:27Campione demand his annexion to the Swiss,
00:29but this latter refused,
00:31because of his commitment towards the neutrality.
00:33After the Italian Unification in 1861,
00:36all the lands west of the lake of Lugano
00:38and half of the lake have been ceded to the Swiss,
00:41so that the commerce and the Swiss transports
00:43were not to pass by Italy.
00:45Even though its initial name was just Campione,
00:48the dictator Italian Benito Mussolini
00:50added Italia to emphasize
00:52that the city is part of Italy.
00:53Even if one single kilometer
00:55separates Campione Italia from Italy,
00:57the inhabitants of this city
00:58must walk 20 minutes in car
01:00to reach the Italy continent.
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