Tatiana's TOMATObase.. try this link

Here is a link that might be useful: Tatiana's TOMATObase

Flora, most of the tomatoes grown in Italy these days are F1 hybrids, unfortunately, but I do believe that you could have purchased a fruit with those indented lines you mention coming from the stem outwards and it's called radial craking and would be most often found on OP ( open pollinated), not hybrid fruits.

You've been linked to Tania's data base which is a wonderful site, and perhaps to the list of tomatoes that originated in Italy, but without knowing the name of what you had, there's absolutely no way of knowing where you could buy seeds for it.

You can look at that list of Italian tomatoes and click and click on each one to see if any of them look anything like what you saw and ate, but there's no way to know where to buy seeds for the fruits you ate without having a name for it b'c there are hundreds of italian varieties that can be lookalikes.

BTW, please don't wash and then eat fruits in a public fountain anywhere b'c, ahem, they are often used for other purposes if you catch my drift.

Carolyn, who has been to Italy and many other countries where there are public fountains and doesn't want to really tell you what she observed. ( smile)

Wonder if you mean they were fluted/ruffled/ribbed or just cracked?.

Lots of ruffled varieties to choose from and you may be able to narrow it down to 10-20 choices. But the bottom line is that there is no way to ID what the specific tomato you ate was. There are 100's if not 1000's of possibilities.

Try Ceylon or Costoluto Genovese.

Dave