Seconded!

I worked on a SW-project there in the late 1980-ies (Moving the European Parliament from OSI to TCP/IP) and it was a strange and wonderful place indeed.

And yes, very good food, I gained four kg in the first two months :-)

But there were absolutely no doubt anywhere that there were two classes of people: Italians and "Strangero" like me, and God help you if you did not understand Italian...

The sadness of Olivettis passing is somewhat tempered by the fact that Arduino grew from its ashes.