Tastes differ. Number 12, as you so name her, isn't a type I consider particularly beautiful. That doesn't mean I'm "ashamed" that she's Italian or anything equally stupid. Perhaps you've spent too much time on sites like theapricity. The Italians who do or used to frequent sites like that are not representative of Italians. Number 29's look is not my favorite either, fwiw.
I think Tiziana Piergianni is beautiful. She was a Miss Liguria at one point. Vittoria Puccini is also very beautiful, as is Luisa Ranieri. All different, all Italian. Anyway, that's what I think is beautiful, along with Monica Bellucci, Claudia Cardinale, Laura Morante, and many more.
Piergianni
Miriam Giovanelli
Vittoria Puccini
Stefania Simonetti
Luisa Ranieri
I really find it offensive when foreigners presume to tell Italians who "looks" Italian, and who is an outlier.
There are a lot of mountainous northern areas in Italy where there is 20% blondism or more, and where some of the inhabitants do indeed look like Razzano. As always in Italy it's a mix.
You can take a look at this thread about the Parmense. There's a few posts with pictures, then some off topic, then starting at post 17 more pictures.
https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/33332-People-of-the-Appennino-Parmense?highlight=Val+Parma
One of the young men, is, I think, a Razzano type. More than a few wouldn't look at all out of place in southern Germany or Austria or France.
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My grandfather looked just like that as a young man, and two of my uncles.
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Famous partigiana from a neighboring valley who looks like my grandmother. Nilde Lotti
Another resistance fighter-Norma Parenti
The point of my post was merely to show that there's a lot of variety in terms of phenotype in Italy, and that it means nothing as to who is more or less "Italian".
In terms of alleles, the ones responsible for "appearance" are a small minority.
In terms of overall autosomal inheritance it is however true that northern Italians are closer to some Iberians and some French people, and even to some Balkanites than they are to Southern Italians, although the distances are not huge. Numerous papers have shown that, so it's a fact.
That is even true for me and I'm half northern Italian and half Tuscan. I always come out closer to Spaniards and some Balkanites than to Southern Italians. If there is no Northern Italian or Tuscan reference sample I come out Bulgarian or occasionally Albanian, not Southern Italian, and not Greek either, for that matter.
It doesn't matter. For the umpteenth time, ethnicity is more than just genetics. I'm still closer, in all the ways that matter, to Calabresi and Sicilians than to Spaniards.