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According to legend, macaroni was brought to Italy by Marco Polo, returning to Venice from China in 1292.

This hypothesis has long been disproved, since it seems that macaroni was already used in Italy at least a century before, like pasta in general ; Moroccan geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi who lived in Sicily, witnessed the existence of macaroni in Sicily and in particular in Trabia.