Some places are best understood through their monuments. Others reveal themselves in the ordinary rhythm of an afternoon.

Tables spill into the piazza beneath colorful old façades, awnings stretch into the sun, and nearly every chair seems occupied. Lunch becomes part of the street itself—conversation, passing footsteps, clinking glasses and people lingering with nowhere particularly urgent to be.

It is one of the enduring pleasures of an Italian city: architecture provides the backdrop, but everyday life completes the scene.

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