Any traveler who has been to Italy will tell you the number-one attraction is not actually the Pantheon or Vatican City or the statue of David or the Leaning Tower of Pisa or the Colosseum.

No. Actually, it’s not even old. It’s made every day. It’s not expensive. It only costs about 2 euros or so. It’s not unique in any way. You’ll see everyone on the street with one.

The real attraction is gelado.

To the untrained eye, gelado is your average ice cream cone. But as I’ve said, give any traveler more than a day or two in Italy, and they’ll tell you differently.

Unfortunately, part of what makes gelado Italy’s number-one attraction is that it can’t be replicated outside of the country. Or at least that’s what I thought until I found a gelado review in a magazine for Internationals in Spain.
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