Most of the typical national products that are consumed especially at Christmas are born in Italian municipalities with fewer than five thousand inhabitants. This is the finding of the Coldiretti/Symbola study on "Small Municipalities and Typicality". The report aims to tell about a wine and food heritage of the country kept 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 92 percent of protected origin products (DOP/PDO, Protected Designation of Origin and IGP, Protected Geographical Indication) and 79 percent of the finest Italian wines are produced. This Coldiretti-Symbola Foundation report "Small Municipalities and Typicality” 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 percent of Italy's 7901 municipalities, according to the analysis by Symbola Foundation and Coldiretti. Piedmont is the region with the highest number of Small Municipalities (1,045) followed by Lombardy (1,038) and Campania (345).
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