My last trip was to Italy. My family and I traveled from Milan to Marina di Camerota visiting the main cities like Venetia, Siena, Rome, Pisa and Firenze. Even though we had to walk so much during this trip, every city that I visited was amazing in its own way. Milan, with all the fashionista habitants walking in front of the Il Duomo di Milano or drink coffee in the Caffè Florian in Piazza San Marco located in Venetia. The beautiful and huge squares of Siena surrounded by amounts of people or the splendid sunsets in Firenze. The majestic Pisa Tower in Pisa or the magical Fontana di Trevi in Rome. All this moments I took my breath away but there are nothing compared to the power of a song.

While I was walking around in the charming Venetian streets my sister saw a museum of Salvador Dali and decided to take a look at the exhibition. Mean while, my mom and I stay outside waiting for her. The museum was located in a street right next to the water canal. It appears that this canal was one of the main routes for tourist’s gondola rides. So, we seated aside of the bridge and watch the gondolas go by. In the gondolas you could see couples, groups of couples, families, groups of friends and more. They would take pictures, wave at us and have a good time when I was looking at them. But one group of tourists made an impression that I would never forget.

While seated waiting for my sister a gondola with a family pass by slowly. This was a normal family: mother, father, girl and a boy. They were in the gondola talking and laughing and suddenly the father starts to sing “O Sole Mio” in Italian.  This globally well-known song is originally a Neopolitan song. The translation to English is “my sun” and it had been sing by the greatest stars from the opera like Luciano Pavarotti. Well, this tourist starts singing out loud “O Sole Mio” while riding in the gondola. All of a sudden the people sitting at the edge and the people that were standing in the bridge start singing with him. It was a live concert in the streets and the bridge of Venetia when everyone starts singing in unison. No matter if you were a male or a female everyone that knew the lyrics start singing with the men and the people sang beautifully with all their strength to the top of their lungs. The rest of the family was laughing and cheering the father. It was a huge spectacle that without any preparation became a sensation. When the song finishes all the people cheer and clap together and the men who initiated this improvised concert was so happy and proud enjoying the moment.

At the end there’s no architecture, coffee, museum or square that could overshadow the amazing feeling that humanity working together to create something beautiful makes you feel. That moment would remain in my mind forever and every time that I remember of it I would have a smile on my face. This adventure was definitely one of the most funny and the one that has reached my heart.