Italy’s landscape has led to towns and cities being self-sufficient and independent, with few direct roads between them, fostering mutual mistrust and cultural differences. Visitors sometimes remark on how unlike one town is from the next, on the marked differences in cuisine and dialect, and on the many subtle divergences that make Italy seem less a single nation than a collection of culturally related points in a pleasing setting.
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