Most of us know our Spaghetti from our Penne, but how much more about Pasta do you know?

With over 1,572,571,546kg of pasta eaten in Italy ALONE, this popular food comes in over six hundred different shapes and has a unique and colourful history. For example, many people believe that Marco Polo brought pasta to Italy from his many travels, but this isn’t true! It was actually the Arab invasion that brought a noodle-like product to Sicily, which began an international life-long love affair with this delicious food.

Sicily villas specialist Think Sicily has put together this infographic to share some fun facts and interesting information about this fabulous and famous Italian food.