Music
This city hosts Italy's most famous music festival
Sanremo
Roman pasta dish traditionally made with only four ingredients: guanciale, pecorino romano, egg yolks, and black pepper
Carbonara
2017 Luca Guadagnino film starring Timothee Chalamet and set in Northern Italy
Call Me by Your Name
Founded in Florence in 1921, this fashion house is known for its double-G logo
Gucci
two-word exclamation, literally 'my mom'
Mamma mia
Italian-American singer famous for hits like That's Amore
Dean Martin
Aged sheep's milk cheese from Lazio which goes on Carbonara, Amatriciana, and cacio e pepe
Pecorino Romano
1953 film starring Audrey Hepburn features her riding a Vespa around Rome with Gregory Peck
Roman Holiday
Founded in 1978, this fashion house's creator was killed in his Miami mansion
Versace
Italian word to raise a toast: literally - health
Salute
1958 Domenico Modugno song, title translates as to fly
Volare
Name of the bright yellow lemon liqueur traditionally served after dinner
limoncello
Director of La Dolce Vita and 8½
Federico Fellini
Italian brand made up of two surnames and known for Sicilian baroque prints and bold Mediterranean style
Dolce and Gabbana
Italian for "good luck or break a leg"
In bocca al lupo
Roman rock band that won Eurovision 2021
Maneskin
The best Italian Christmas cake
Pandoro (Panettone, wrong but credit given)
1948 Vittorio De Sica neorealist film following a desperate father and son searching postwar Rome for something that was stolen
Bicycle Thieves, Ladri di Biciclette
Italian fashion house which features prominently in a famous 2006 American movie
Prada
Exclamation of frustration, literally 'pig misery'
Porca miseria
17th century Italian violin maker whose works still sell for millions
Stradivari (Stradrivarius)
Famous braised veal shank dish from Milan with a name referring to its bone
This 2013 Paolo Sorrentino film about a Roman journalist wandering the Eternal City won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film
La grande bellezza
Famous for his suits and then creator of a massive fashion house, this designer passed away in 2025
Two word phrase which describes making an embarrassing public mistake or losing face
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