How to specify a rule for urlrewrite.php for a directory?

Question

1C-Bitrix

In the catalog section, the catalog complex component displays a catalog of products. There are three root sections in the product catalog:
Russian cuisine, Japanese cuisine and Italian cuisine

Each of the root sections has its own subsections,
for example:
Italian cuisine - pizza subsection Italian cuisine
- risotto

subsection
the name of the root partition?

For example, instead of /catalog/italia/ there would be the address /italia/,
respectively, the subsection /catalog/italia/pizza/ would be displayed as /italia/pizza/

Created a rule in the urlrewrite.php file so that when clicking on the link /italia/
there was a redirect to /catalog/italia/ but the rule does not work

Tell me how to correctly specify the rule in urlrewrite?

array (
    'CONDITION' => '#^/italia/#', 
    'RULE' => '#^/catalog/italia/#', // здесь необходимо будет указать другое правило
    'ID' => 'bitrix:catalog',
    'PATH' => '/catalog/index.php',
    'SORT' => 100,
  )

Or is it better to abandon such an idea and simply display products from different sections in different physical folders using the same complex catalog component?