“Though one cannot always remember exactly why one has been happy,” wrote WH Auden when he left Italy, in his poem Goodbye to the Mezzogiorno, “there is no forgetting that one was.” It is easier to be happy in Italy than anywhere. From church bells and espressos in the piazza to experiencing the world’s greatest art in galleries and churches, Italy gives beauty and taste. From lunching on Europe’s best food, snoozing under cypresses beside azure swimming pools or under pines by bright warm seas, to evenings at the opera in Verona, a palazzo in Venice or an osteria in Naples, Italy gives serenity and nourishment.
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