CentoVetrine

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CentoVetrine
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Genre Soap opera
Created byCristiana Farina
StarringSee below
Country of originItaly
Original languageItalian
No. of seasons15
No. of episodes3,318
Production
Running time23 min
Original release
Network Canale 5
ReleaseJanuary 8, 2001 (2001-01-08) 
August 8, 2016 (2016-08-08)

Centovetrine is an Italian soap opera broadcast on Canale 5 from 8 January 2001 to 8 August 2016.

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The soap was broadcast in the first run ever by Channel 5, and since 2009, it is no longer visible in satellite mode, free to air, but by means of free-to-view satellite TV. The replicas of the soap went on air on the pay channel DIVA Universal and free channel A5.

It was broadcast in Croatia sometime between May 2003 and July 2006, but only 580 episodes from seasons 1 to 3 and 100 episodes from season 4 which lasted a total of 680 episodes.

In Serbia, more than 1000 episodes from 5 seasons were aired.

In Albania, some of the last episodes that were never aired on Italian television got their world premiere in 2016.

Premise

The series tells the stories of some of the characters who work or are related to an imaginary shopping center Centovetrine, located in the center of Turin. There are many stories of love and passion, but also struggles for power and dynastic quarrels in the telefilm.

Cast

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