Pontedera | The Museum That Is More Than the Vespa

The takeaway counter on the Viareggio pier

We had watched a film called Enrico Piaggio, un sogno italiano, the TV biopic of the man who turned a bombed-out bomber factory into the company that made the Vespa, and we had decided over the closing credits that we wanted to see where the thing had been invented.

Pontedera, the town, we knew nothing about. The brain-dump version, which I will give yo…