93% of the typical national products that are consumed originate in Italian municipalities with fewer than five thousand inhabitants, a heritage of taste and biodiversity that also drives tourism, with 2 out of 3 Italians (65%) among those going on vacation visiting a village in the summer of 2024, according to Ixe'. This is the finding of the Coldiretti/Symbola study on "Small Municipalities and Typicality". The report aims to tell a wine and food heritage of the country guarded outside the traditional tourist circuits, enhanced and promoted thanks to Law No. 158/17, first signed by Realacci, with measures for the enhancement of Small Municipalities. In fact, in the territories of the 5,538 small municipalities with a maximum of 5,000 inhabitants, where nearly 10 million Italians live, as many as 93% of protected origin products (PDO, Protected Designation of Origin and PGI, Protected Geographical Indication) and 79% of the finest Italian wines are produced. The report gives us an updated picture for each region of this extensive and deep-rooted productive dimension that translates cultural diversity into value. A virtuous system that represents as many as 70.1% of Italy's 7,901 municipalities and in which just over 10 million people live, according to the analysis by the Symbola Foundation and Coldiretti. Piedmont is the region with the largest number of Small Municipalities (1,045) followed by Lombardy (1,038) and Campania (345).
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