Even if you find a baker's open on Sunday in Italy, they won't have any bread. They'll have cakes, biscuits, whatever - but no bread. Ditto specialist cake shops (pasticceria, easily mistaken for bakers, especially if you are looking for bread).
Today (Sant'Ambrogio, a holiday in Milan), I found a baker's open and bought some bread, but the shop assistant told another customer that although the shop is open tomorrow (the Feast of the Immaculate Conception), they won't have any bread.
Big supermarkets sometimes have bread on Sundays, but if they've sold out you have to get "friselli", a kind of rock-hard granary bagel that you have to soak in olive oil before it's soft enough to eat.
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