Why Are History and Culture So Well-Preserved in Italy?

“It’s partly because Italy was so late in becoming a country. It was only unified in 1861. Of course, it never really unified. I think it’s because of all the little fragments that Italy was like the Papal States, the Kingdom of Two Sicilys, the Bourbon Kings, the mountain villages cut off from each other and the kind of serfdom that existed. It’s becau…