Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
The Southern Way of Life
The Mezzogiorno (land of the midday sun) is more than its haunting ruins, poetic
coastlines and peeling
palazzi
(mansions). Its true protagonists are the
meridionali
(southern Italians), whose character and nuances echo a long, nail-biting history of
dizzying highs and testing lows. To understand the southern psyche is to understand
the complexities and contradictions that have moulded Italy's most misunderstood
half.
