robertorolfo

If you could put it into words that really did it justice, I suspect you could win some sort of prize, or perhaps be recognized by the Italian government. But however elusive a description or summary might be, it is there. That certain special something, it exists. And while it might be be for everyone, once you have a taste for it there are very few substitutes.

As others have mentioned, spending time in Italy certainly helps understand what it is all about. And by 'spending time in Italy,' it is ideally doing something other than waiting on line to get into the Coliseum or Vatican Museum (not that there is anything wrong with either of those things, which are certainly worth the wait, but just to say that there is a lot more going on in the rest of the country).