Originally Posted by
helosc
As a regular reader of this forum, this fact has not escaped my notice....
I am staying at the Hilton Metropole (I have my reasons for this) so probably not a good starting point.
It was Milan that made me aware of the concept of apiritivo/apericena and I just assumed that Florence was north enough to also have the custom.
Florence north? Tsk, tsk, tsk. North is made out of (from West to East) Val d'Aosta, Piemonte, Lombardia, Trentino/Alto Adige, Veneto e Friuli/Venezia/Giulia. In brief, the places that are inhabited by the Polentoni. Then comes Central Italy and then, south of Lazio (although some people count Lazio there as well), is the Mezzogiorno (South). Sardinia belongs to the Centre and Sicily, obviously, to the South which is inhabited by the Terroni. There are, of course, people between the North and the South, but they have no... name.
