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No generation in Germany has ever been without a yearning for Italy. The country on the other side of the Alps attracts people, it shines and tastes good - and it always sounds good! ‘We Italians are sparrows and nightingales. We all sing,’ said the great Lucio Dalla, and so there is no better key to understanding the country than music. Or at least none more beautiful.

Whether Mina, Ricchi e Poveri or Adriano Celentano, the canzone is a national cultural asset: from Neapolitan songs and the new summer hits every year to Italo disco or the works of the Cantautori. Eric Pfeil takes us on a journey with 100 songs that bring us closer to a country, its history and its most beautiful spots, and that invite us to listen to them again and again. We drive along narrow coastal roads with the top down, wander through the alleyways of Naples and along Rimini's beach promenade - and are guaranteed to always have the right soundtrack in our ears.