"What do you miss most about Italy?" I asked my first Italian teacher in San Francisco many years ago. "La piazza," she said so wistfully that I thought for a moment it might be someone's name. After years of passing time in Italian piazze, I now understand her fondness for these very special places.

The piazza is an Italian's second home. In the course of a day, the residents of a village or neighborhood come to the piazza to enjoy a caffe, read a newspaper, catch up on gossip, show off a new outfit, play cards, complain about the weather, talk politics, flirt or just soak in the scene.

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano