, the program was designed as a competitive variety show featuring teams from different towns in the Lombardy region. The "story" of each episode followed these local teams through a series of increasingly provocative and bizarre physical challenges: it.wikipedia.org The Games:
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: Featured prima ballerina Luciana Savignano as a "madrina" (godmother).