Thousands of riders from all over the world paraded through Rome on Saturday to celebrate Vespa's 80th birthday. "The history of the Vespa, which accompanies the birth and rise of Italy after the Second World War , is in a way an iconic symbol of our history, of our culture," said Roberto Gualtieri, the Italian capital's mayor. Designed to be an affordable means of transport, the Vespa, which means "wasp" in Italian, was launched in 1946 by ‌Piaggio, a major aircraft manufacturer. It was "the

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