During a trip it happens to everyone to point out the window at signs that have the most bizarre place names, but no humorist has ever thought of classifying them with the patience of an entomologist and then put them in a book. However, defining this work merely as meticulous cataloguing would be extremely reductive. The author links etymons and place-names in an original, creative and very personal way, transforming real towns, villages large and small, hamlets and suburbs into dreamlike and surreal places of fantasy. And if the results are often hilarious, in some cases they are also incredibly plausible. Va’ a quel paese is a deviated place-name dictionary, a voyage organized according to linguistic rather than geographic criteria, a guide to Italy where every place can finally be defined as «pleasant».