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Living a Life in Colour

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Why do people from 180 countries come to a village in Lombardia on the same day every year?

September 16, 2014 By wooweiduan 2 Comments

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Every year around the 24th of June, people from 180 countries around the world convene at Solferino, a tiny town of 2,000 inhabitants south of Lake Garda in Lombardia.  Solferino is surrounded by farmland and has a beautiful Mantuan square, Piazza Castello (so named because there used to be an 11th century castle here). The… 

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