Benedetta asked Valeria this question, and it turned out to be much harder to answer than we expected.

Because where do you even begin?

The food? The history? The beautiful cities? The incredible landscapes?

Well, yes. Obviously. 🥰

But we quickly realized that none of those things really explains why people fall so deeply in love with Italy, or why they miss it so much when they leave.

So we started thinking about our everyday lives.

Walking everywhere. Sitting in a piazza for no particular reason. Organizing our entire day around lunchtime. Laughing with strangers. Talking to the same market vendors every week. Going to our favorite bar, where everyone knows us.

And then we remembered a little conversation Valeria had at the bakery just the other day.

She went in to buy bread and ended up sharing childhood memories with a man she had never met before.

Two minutes. A loaf of bread. And they both walked away smiling.

And suddenly, we had our answer.

Maybe the magic of Italy isn't only in the things you can see.

Maybe it's in the way you feel when you're here.

Seen. Connected. Part of something.

And perhaps that's what you really miss when you leave. ❤️

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