This is the Untold Italy travel podcast and you are listening to episode number 157.

Ciao at all and benvenuti to Untold Italy, the travel podcast where you go to the towns and villages,

mountains and lakes, hills and coastlines of

Bella Italia. Each week your host, Katie Clark, takes you on a journey in search of magical

landscapes, history, culture, wine, gelato, and of course, a whole lot of pasta. If you're

dreaming of Italy and planning future adventures

there, you've come to the right place.

Ciao, Italy, travel lovers. I hope you're doing well and the excitement is building for Italian

trips in your not too distant future. Now, I was going through our show episodes recently and

I was a little bit shocked that I hadn't recorded an episode on this topic, to be honest. No doubt

I mentioned gelato a lot on this show, but given how much I love this Italian treat,

I do think it deserves its very own episode, don't you think?

So, to-da!

Today what we're talking about is all things gelato.

I'm going to fill you in on why it's so delicious, why it is a very, very different treat to ice cream and where

you're going to find the good stuff. Plus the flavours you should definitely try when you're

in Italy because you probably won't find them at home. So are you ready? Andiyama, the gelato is waiting.

First up, let's give you a quick rundown on what gelato is and isn't. Gelato is the

Italian word for ice cream and it comes from the Latin word gelatus meaning frozen. In fact,

almost 2,000 years ago Emperor Nero would send his minions up into the mountains to get

ice that was then mixed with fruit juices.

Surely the precursor to gelato, so those ancient Romans were added again, setting trends that

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