FRom what ITALIAN reggione is this...?

<<True. Excepting phonetics, the more similar language to Italian is French.>>

If phonetics are not similar mutual intelligibility becomes close to zero. Catalan is much more similar to Italian than French.

"Catalan is much more similar to Italian than French".

Probably it is but in my opinion Catalan sounds harsher than Italian and the intonation is quite different

"Catalan is much more similar to Italian than French".

Catalan is a mixture of French and Spanish with lots of loans from Castillian. Spanish has also influenced Catalan pronounciation a lot. Some phonological and grammar features seem to be iberian.

"Catalan is a mixture of French and Spanish with lots of loans from Castillian. Spanish has also influenced Catalan pronounciation a lot. Some phonological and grammar features seem to be iberian."

this is stupid

Well When I listen to a catalan radio the accent and the general intonation of the language sounds like Castillian.

No, Catalan is related to Occitan. Occitan is a class on its own and not a mixture of French and other languages. It's French that is a mixture of Germanic , Latin and God knows what else.Not only Catalan but Occitan is closer to Italian than French.

Not only Catalan but Occitan is closer to Italian than French.

This is partly true Occitan and catalan are closer to northern Italian dialects (they all belong to Gallo romance languages along with French) but not Toscan, from which modern Italian comes.

Catalan belongs to Ibero Romance, not Gallo Romance.

Modern Catalan is a mixture between Ibero Romance and galloromance languages

Central Italy

"central Italy"

not at all. I'd say Italian standard. By the way only in central of Italy vowels are generally pronounced as in standard Italian.