Sure looks like it to me. Acacia baileyana purpurea. I was so sad when mine died in a bad freeze. It was such a beautiful tree. That one looks like it has a ton of flower buds for winter.

I wonder when it will flower here in Italy.

It bloomed in January in Santa Cruz and mid to late February in Portland. If bet February 1 for Italy.

Certainly does look like it. A declared weed tree here in many parts of its native Oz, growing alongside country roads and invading native forest areas. Probably not a problem in Italy! Flowers in mid-winter, as do many of the ~800 Acacia species.

It is invasive in coastal California. Resprouts from undergound after freeze or fire. Not well-behaved in gardens when you try to remove it. The pollen is moderately allergenic, and they make great clouds of it.

I will allow the purple-leaved ones are attractive.

This one was an incredibly intense silver. There were self sown Aloes etc all over the garden but this was the only A bailyana I saw. Pity it's a thug elsewhere.