la dolce vita, italy in the 1950s
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An Italian man watches an American tourist walking her poodle down the Spanish Steps in Rome. Circa 1955. (Evans/Three Lions / Getty Images)
Sophia Loren on location at Ostia Antica for the filming of ‘La Fortuna di Essere Donna’.
1955. (Enzo Graffeo/BIPs / Getty Images)
The Reschen Lake in southern Tyrol, which covers the sunken village of Graun, on August 13, 1953. (Keystone / Getty Images)
A schoolboy walks through the rain in Saint Mark’s Square, Venice. March 1958. (Koenig/BIPs / Getty Images)
A stall holder selling live crabs at a market in an Italian fishing town. Circa 1950. (Felix Man/Hulton Archive / Getty Images)
A tour boat leaves harbor for the ‘Blue Grotto’ on the isle of Capri. Circa 1955. (Nocella/Three Lions / Getty Images)
Italian driver Alberto Ascari steers his Lancia at the finish line of the 1000 Miles race in Rome. May 1954. (Stf / AFP / Getty Images)
A man sells cherries from a market stall in Naples. Circa 1952. (Picture Post/Hulton Archive / Getty Images)
Italy’s Fausto Coppi finishing the seventeenth lap of the bicycle race across Italy. June 1952. (AP Photo/B)
Italians celebrate a May Festival in the village of Bucchianico, near Chieti in Abruzzo. May 1957. Enzo Graffeo/BIPs / Getty Images
Two musicians play instruments in Calabria, southern Italy. Circa 1950. (Evans/Three Lions / Getty Images)
The bustle of tourists, pigeons, and public servants in Venice. Circa 1955. Vecchio/Three Lions / Getty Images
Young Italian men having lunch in a cafe in Rome and reading the communist paper ‘Unita’ and the socialist ‘Avanti’. Circa 1955. (Evans/Three Lions / Getty Images)
Italians celebrate a May Festival in the village of Bucchianico, near Chieti in Abruzzo. May 1957. Enzo Graffeo/BIPs / Getty Images
The son of a fisherman looks after his two sisters whilst his parents work in the seas off Calabria. Circa 1950. Evans/Three Lions / Getty Images
British violonist Yehudi Menuhin and his wife Diana eating spaghetti before a concert the Maestro gave in Venice. (Afp / AFP / Getty Images)
A pair of priests read ‘L’Osservatore’ outside St Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. Circa 1955. (Evans/Three Lions / Getty Images)
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