There are at least two teams of road sign painters in Italy and they vie with each other for originality of design and distances indicated. There must be some benefit in over- or under-estimating kms to the next town. It can be marked 33kms, you travel 4 kms towards it and the nxt sign says 36. I am sure that I have been round a round-a-bout to see the flagged distance change within 270 degrees.
Accuracy is clearly not the main aim. Design embelishes and even supercedes function. The idea of an Italian Bauhaus movement was doubtlessly never, ever considered.
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