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What Makes Italy Special: Heritage, Art, Food and Home-Town Pride
Rome, Venice, Florence, the Renaissance and a food culture loved around the world. A guide to what makes Italy special.
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Rome · 41.9028° N, 12.4964° E
Italy
Sunday lunch, regional food rules and fierce loyalty to the town you grew up in. Designs for the Italian city, region or village you carry with you.
Loyal to the bell tower
Italians are famously loyal to their own town. There is a word for it, campanilismo, from the campanile or bell tower: the idea that your strongest loyalty is to the place within sight of your own church tower. Food, dialect, football and festivals all change from town to town, and people defend their version with passion.
That makes Italy ideal for designs that name a specific place rather than the whole country.
Food is identity
In Italy, food is regional, seasonal and serious. Dishes are tied to particular places, and families have firm views about how they should be made. People abroad often say the thing they miss most is a long Sunday lunch with the whole family around the table.
What we design here
Designs for Italy begin with towns, regions and the rituals of the table. Everything is original, with no official emblems, team crests or borrowed marks. Italy is also home to a sizeable Sri Lankan community, another reminder that many people belong to more than one place.
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