Giro d'Italia history: a century of passion, mythical climbs, and the soul of the maglia rosa
By
The Editors
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Culture
Italy is the country that invented the Renaissance, the espresso, the concept of the passeggiata, and the idea that a meal can be the most important event of the day. To travel here without understanding something of what shaped it is to miss the country entirely. This collection goes behind the monuments and the menus — into the history, the traditions, the cycles of Italian life that have been running, largely unchanged, for centuries.
