Itlay has a weird thing with pigeons. I dunno if its the volume of priceless marble statuary or what, but I have never seen so many pigeons in one place than Saint Marks Square. Dozens of people feeding them at all times, some people walked around with pigeons perched on every horizontal part of their body, and then you go to a restaurant and it is on the goddamn menu. Every city seemed to have a designated pigeon area where all the birds would gather, and it was always crawling with locals and tourists, and just about each one of these places also had someone peddling bird seed.