Italian ice cream (gelato) is definitely the best known and most popular Italian dessert that you just have to have on holiday - you can't visit Italy and not taste great ice cream. Shops with this delicacy are called Gelateria and offer many different flavors. The most common are, of course, the classic vanilla (vaniglia), strawberry (fragola) or forest mixture (frutti di bosco), lemon (limone), pistachio (pistacchio), cream (fior di latte), chocolate (cioccolato), hazelnut (nocciola) or typically Italian stracciatella (creamy with pieces of dark chocolate).
But there are also other types worth tasting - such as caramel panna cotta, sweet nutella, tiramisu, smarties, cookies (cookies, kinder), mint, puffo or chocolate with chilli.
You can have the ice cream in a cone (in cono) or in a plastic or paper cup (nella coppetta). Portions - the scoops are larger than you usually get in Czech republic, because the Italian usually takes a nice pile from the tray with a spatula or ice cream scoop, which he does not scrape or reduce in any way.
In recent years, frozen yogurt has also become very popular in Italy, you can buy it in a shop called Yogurteria, where they often sell yogurt ice cream in one window and bake fresh pancakes (crepes) with nutella in the other.
But don't forget to taste other delicious Italian desserts in addition to the amazing ice cream, such as: tiramisu, profitterol, crostata or panna cotta.
If you don't feel like eating ice cream, but need to refresh yourself on something very cold on a hot day, have a crushed ice (granita). The most common flavors are orange or lemon, kiwi, strawberry, mint or coca-cola.
