In the 1970s Italy provided a fertile landscape for the experimentation of video as an artform, soon after its inception in the market. Italian video art centres and galleries, including art/tapes/22, Centro Video Arte in Ferrara, Videoteca Giaccari and Galleria del Cavallino in Venice, attracted pioneers from all over the world, providing access to the apparatus and expertise, initiating international collaborations and promoting a lively cultural context that stimulated the production of seminal pioneering video artworks. Among the most exceptional examples are: renowned Italian artists as Claudio Ambrosini (now better known as a composer), Alighiero Boetti, Jannis Kounellis, Ketty La Rocca, Federica Marangoni, Mario Merz, Giulio Paolini, Michele Sambin, Luigi Viola and European and American artists as Vito Acconci, Sanja Iveković, Allan Kaprow, Joan Jonas, Charlemagne Palestine, and Bill Viola. Also, some pioneers such as Luca Maria Patella and Fabio Mauri experimented the medium independently, participating actively in international festivals and exhibitions. This chapter will provide an overview of the histories of the most relevant Italian video art centres, analysing from an esthetical and theoretical point of view artworks and style, discussing germinal curatorial approaches in exhibitions and festivals, international collaborations and legacy.