Each
player is an Italian prince and begins the game with two cities. The
first building in each city is the prince's castle. First, the princes
must provide food for their people. As the populations of the princes'
cities grow, so must the food supplies. With their basic needs met, the
people look beyond these basic needs for the services their cities can
provide. As the cities grow and seek to provide the services their
people want, the princes build schools for education, statues for
culture, and public baths for health.