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Italy has produces several daytime soap opera over the years:

* Un Posto al Sole (= A Place in the Sun) based on the Australian format "Neighbours" which is still on air today and of which they have also created some spin-offs over the years, Un Posto al Sole d'estate (A Place in the Sun in summer), and TV specials Un Posto al Sole coi fiocchi (=A place in the sun with a bang).

* Vivere (international title Living) lasted for 9 years, a real success of the early 2000s focused on the lives of four families from Como.  Vivere had a remake in Poland entitled Linia życia.

* Centovetrine (international title The Mall) which lasted for 15 years and had many similarities with Vivere as it was produced by the same production company and the same writers and focused on the life of four families in Turin. Centovetrine had a remake in Poland entitled Galeria.

 

* Cuori Rubati (= Stolen Hearts) based on the format of Sons and Daughters of which however it had nothing in common and lasted for only two seasons and like Centovetrine this too was set in Turin. The soap was produced by the same production as Un Posto al Sole.

* In Nome della Famiglia (= In the Name of Family), an unfortunate one-season soap.

* Ricominciare (= Starting Over), another unfortunate Italian soap produced by the same production company as In Nome della Famiglia and of which it shared the same premise. * Sottocasa (= Under the house), soap based on a German "Marienhoff" format whose stories should have had a more realistic connotation than other Italian soaps, so much so that it was defined as "real drama".

Agrodolce ( = Bitter-sweet) , another Italian soap opera, produced by the same production company as Un Posto al Sole. Very unfortunate soap centered on seven Sicilian families in the fictional town of Lumera.

 

Italy has also produced several prime time soap operas.

The best known:

* Incatesimo (= Enchantment), the first prime time soap opera which later became a daytime soap, centered on a clinic in Rome. Each season featured a change of lead couple.

* Vento di Ponente (= West Wind), prime time megasoap inspired by the Dutch format Westenwind, with intrigues worthy of Dallas and Dynasty, centered on two families of shipowners from Genoa and an impossible love à la Romeo and Juliet.

* Il Bello delle Donne (= The Beauty of Women) , an atypical series, part soap, part black comedy, centered on a beauty salon in Viterbo.

* Le Tre Rose di Eva (= Eva's Three Roses, international title: Tuscan Passion), prime time soap centered on three Tuscan families dealing with impossible loves, mysteries, secrets and a trail of murders. Absolutely one of the best Italian soaps full of twists and turns with inspirations from Dynasty, Falcon crest and The Bold and the Beautiful. The soap has had two remakes, a Turkish one entitled Zeytin Tepesi (= The Hill of Olives) and a Malaysian one entitled Dendam Aurora (Aurora's Revenge)

* Una Grande Famiglia (= A Big Family), prime time series inspired by Dallas and Brothers and Sisters and centered on a family of entrepreneurs from Lombardy.

Il Paradiso delle Signore (= The Ladies' Paradise), also like Incantesimo, started in prime time and then became a daytime soap, currently still on air.

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