Besides good food, art, fashion and cinema, the thing we Italians are most famous for abroad is definitely our way of communicating. Our language, often perceived by foreigners as expressive and music-sounding, is in fact inseparable from our theatrical gestures. Asking an Italian to speak without gesturing is practically impossible!

This form of nonverbal communication in Italy serves to reinforce concepts, give expressiveness to speech, and often takes its place. But if gesturing has made us famous all over the world, it is also true that for non-natives it may not be so clear; that's why here we draw up for you a short but definitive guide to the 10 most famous and used Italian gestures, in order to precisely clarify their meaning.