What street foods can I eat in Italy?

The accepted answer lists the popular foods available in almost all Italy but I think you can usually find some local (and sometimes strange) street food.

In Florence, for example, it's very popular lampredotto, in Tuscany it's not rare to find roventini (a sort of fried blood served with parmesan or chocolate).

Abruzzo has arrosticini .

In Sicilia is famous meuza (spleen).

These are some examples, if you visit Italy I suggest you to always give a try to local street food.

All the foodies listed in the other answers definitely deserve a mention, and here we already put together more than a thresold overview.

I'd like to add that pizza as a street food comes in two formats mainly:

• slices

• squares

We call these pizza al taglio or tranci di pizza but I couldn't actually say if any of the two names refers precisely to one of the two shapes or both in general. Slices are generally thiner, while squares are often more visibly risen.

Sweet or savoury croissants and pastries (cornetti or brioche) are also common, plain or stuffed.

Pizza is sold nationwide while other foodies named in this page are regional and more or less likely to be found elsewhere. In the area of Romagna (also, Emilia and north of Marche), where piadina rules, you can find a genuine variant called crescione (or cassone in Rimini):

These are filled, closed and only then baked, rather than baked both sides, cut in two and filled at the end. If you order piade e crescioni, remember that piade are faster while crescioni need 15 minutes or so on the heat! But they are my favourite...

Finally, Naples is famous for pizza, but in there they also make frittatina, fried egg stuffed with pasta or other.

Original urls of the images: pizza slice, pizza square, cornetti, crescioni/cassoni, frittatina napoletana.

In winter, you might see a stand selling roasted chestnuts. They taste great!