This is Italy at night and at the very north at the foot of the Alps is a huge carpet of lights that shows one of the richest Sprawls in Europe. The flat lands inbetween the hillside coast line with ancient rough harbour towns like Genoa and the actually rather poor first mountains of the always rebellious for self-rule and even bilingual areas like the western Italian-French region and Austrian-Italien north:
The Turin-Milan-Venice-Bologna region.
Turin is a major industrial town and Milano the centre of both the Italian high-end luxurious industries and the financial centre of the region, most likely influencing beyond the boarders of Italy into the competitive Mediterranean cargo trade and the eastern neighbour of former Yugoslavia.
If you are looking for toxic-trade criminal organization blood, this is your rat nest to feast in.
The very coast line from the French boarder across Genoa stretching to the east, is an economically and socially different area, creating a different character. Genoa is as charming rough, but smaller, than Marseille or Toulon, was harbour to Italian Pirates centuries ago and the smaller villages along the cost line live of tourism, but only tourism and only in summer time, being all placed in a mid-range mountain geography, while the TMVB-Sprawl is as flat as it can get.
Guess where you wanna hide as a partisan....and where the enemy will enjoy posh live.
This shows the gross domestic product in Italia showing impressingly the huge difference of citizen of the north and south and the money they create each year each. The more you make per year, the richer you are in capitalist terms.
Italy is the sum of different towns that always had been competing peacefully and violently over its long history and in the 60ies the conflict between left and right was on a comparable highly sophisticated level as the Troubles in Ireland, but way more complicated and undercover, as also several different Mafia organisations, the neighbouring socialist nations and some internationally operating secret services were all in on ruling the nation that cuts the Mediterranean see in half from north to south, creating a connection between Europe and Africa that you can literally paddle on a quite night being fit.
