by Matt Mueller

When Festa Italiana opens this Friday at Henry Maier Festival Park, many will flock down to the lakefront to gulp down some authentic Italian food and wine. Yet some of the most revered tastes of Italian culture coming to town this weekend are wholly inedible: the lovingly crafted and almost identical replicas of the country's most famous sites.

The Italian Community Center, for instance, houses and occasionally unveils a rare duplicate of Michelangelo's "Pieta," while scale-sized replicas of statue of David and St. Mark's Campanile from Venice will grace and decorate the festival grounds this weekend. And joining those famed sites at Festa thi year around the festival ground's middle gate will be a recreation of arguably one of the most iconic Italian landmarks: the Trevi Fountain.

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