Now for something a bit special. I’ve wanted to visit Amelia in Italy for years. Is it a particularly beautiful town? It might be a nice place, but that’s not my reason – I want to go to Gelateria Girotti. It’s not a particularly award-winning or otherwise special ice-cream parlour, but it’s owned by Mario Girotti, better known as Terence Hill. However, as Amelia is rather inconveniently located, I haven’t managed to go yet, and it looks rather unlikely this year too, despite having two trips to Italy coming up.
Mario Girotti now has an ice-cream parlour not only in Amalia, but also in Dresden. The reason is simple: he spent several years of his childhood in Lommatzsch, near Dresden, where his mother is from.
The ice-cream parlour is just a few metres from the Frauenkirche and is styled as a vegetarian Western saloon.


The ice cream is made according to the salon’s original recipes in Amelia. It’s perfectly decent. Certainly not top-class gelato, but particularly good for Germany.