Premise: Vacations were spent by the sea or in the mountains; people listened to soothing operas like Puccini's La Bohyme and Madame Butterfly; the first silent-movies of The Last Days of Pompeii and Quo Vadis were made; one could partake in intellectual conversations in open air caf??s at the hour of the passeggiata.

Hypothesis: Most vacations were spent on the mainland, far away from the sea, or in exotic countrysides.
Relation: contradiction