Plus: The Italian town obsessed with baseball
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| When you think of Italy, baseball probably isn't the first thing that comes to mind.
There's pizza, there's pasta, there's wine, there's Rome, there's soccer. There's Leonardo da Vinci and Roberto Benigni.
But there are some small pockets of hardball-loving towns.
One of the more famous is a place down along Italy's southwest coast. It's about an hour from Rome, home to about 50,000 people. It's a vacation spot along the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Even with the crystal-clear waters distracting you off to your left and the Italian villas showing off atop the hillsides to your right, it's hard to miss the road into Nettuno. In between a couple of big, breezy palm trees, there's a giant sign that'll catch your eye.
It says, "Welcome to Nettuno, City of Baseball." |
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