There must be something going on in municipalities to keep them reasonably tidy and generally peaceful and a pleasure to visit. To visit, I said earlier.
The bureaucracy is a circus, a phantasmagoria as you say, almost impossible to penetrate. So what makes it a pleasure to visit? Half-decent town and city councils?
Local governments are even wors than the national entities....
I don't know what part of Italy you think of as tidy....its a pretty gritty place as far as I'm concerened. Doesn't mean I dislike it...juts tidy and clean is never mentioned in the same breath as Italy. Unlike much of Germany for example.
Don't rely on movies....they clean up things in the filming area prior to filming for example....
I've seen many things on film I've seen in person....and had to ask my wife when did they fim that...because I never saw it that clean before.
