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Get Lost - Finding Yourself in Genoa
In a quiet corner of what is probably one of the most spectacular cemeteries in the world – a veritable outdoor sculpture gallery – there is a statue that has been there since 1881.
It is one of the most famous in Italy and if the man who carved it had known then what the world knows now, he might have placed a gentle smirk onto the facial features of Caterina Campodonico.
Caterino Campodonico, the humble street trader now standing among her noble peers!
Listen to Phil Hopkins tell Caterino Campodonico’s amazing story
She was a humble street trader who spent most of her life selling nuts and pastries, so that she could squirrel away half of her fortune to buy the beautiful...
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