Cleveland's Little Italy is unusual in being still recognisably Italian. The neighbourhood took shape in the 1880s when stonemasons from southern Italy were brought in to work on Lake View Cemetery; by the 1920s it was the densest Italian American community in Ohio, and although demographics have shifted the church (Holy Rosary, 1892), the bakeries, the cafés, and the family-run trattorias have stayed.
Mayfield Road is the spine of the neighbourhood, and Murray Hill Road climbs up from it past art galleries, the Roman Catholic Church, and the stone-fronted houses built by the original immigrants. The Feast of the Assumption every August fills the streets for four days with food stalls and an outdoor procession.
The neighbourhood sits just east of University Circle; the Little Italy–University Circle Red Line station is a short walk away.