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Italy (Italian : Italia [iˈtaːlja] (listen ) ), officially the Italian Republic or the Republic of Italy , is a country in Southern and Western Europe . Located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea , it consists of a peninsula delimited by the Alps and surrounded by several islands ; its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region .
Italy shares land borders with France , Switzerland , Austria , Slovenia and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino . It has a territorial exclave in Switzerland, Campione . Italy covers an area of 301,230 km2 (116,310 sq mi), with a population of about 60 million. It is the third-most populous member state of the European Union , the sixth-most populous country in Europe, and the tenth-largest country in the continent by land area. Italy's capital and largest city is Rome .
Italy was the native place of civilizations such as the Italic peoples and the Etruscans , while due to its central geographic location in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean , the country has also historically been home to myriad peoples and cultures, who immigrated to the peninsula throughout history. The Latins , native of central Italy, formed the Roman Kingdom in the 8th century BC, which eventually became a republic with a government of the Senate and the People . The Roman Republic initially conquered and assimilated its neighbours on the Italian peninsula, eventually expanding and conquering a large part of Europe , North Africa and Western Asia . By the first century BC, the Roman Empire emerged as the dominant power in the Mediterranean Basin and became a leading cultural, political and religious centre , inaugurating the Pax Romana , a period of more than 200 years during which Italy's law , technology , economy , art , and literature developed. (Full article... )
Emblem of the 2006 Winter Olympics
The 2006 Winter Olympics , officially the XX Olympic Winter Games (Italian : XX Giochi olimpici invernali ) and also known as Torino 2006 , were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in Turin , Italy. This marked the second time Italy had hosted the Winter Olympics , the first being in 1956 in Cortina d'Ampezzo ; Italy had also hosted the Summer Olympics in 1960 in Rome .
Turin was selected as the host city for the 2006 Games in June 1999. The official motto of Torino 2006 was "Passion lives here". The Games' logo depicted a stylized profile of the
Mole Antonelliana building, drawn in white and blue ice crystals, signifying the snow and the sky. The crystal web was also meant to portray the web of new technologies and the Olympic spirit of community. The 2006 Olympic mascots were Neve ("snow" in Italian), a female
snowball , and Gliz, a male
ice cube . (
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Image 2 Palazzo della Carovana, the current seat of the
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 4 The
espresso comes from the Italian
esprimere, which means "to express," and refers to the process by which hot water is forced under pressure through ground coffee. (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 5 The
Colosseum , originally known as the Flavian Amphitheatre, is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire. (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 6 Andrea Palladio is often described as the most influential
architect in the Western world. (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 7 Federico Fellini , considered one of the most influential and widely revered
filmmakers in the history of cinema (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 8 John Florio is recognised as the most important Renaissance humanist in England. (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 9 Pietà , by
Michelangelo is a key work of Italian Renaissance sculpture. (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 12 The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, possibly one of the most famous and iconic examples of
Italian art (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 14 Leonardo da Vinci 's
Mona Lisa is an Italian art masterpiece worldwide famous. (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 15 The
Sagra dell'uva in
Marino , celebrating grapes (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 17 The
Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of Italy. (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 18 Leonardo da Vinci , a
polymath of the
High Renaissance who was active as a painter,
draughtsman , engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 19 The
Jefferson Memorial in
Washington, D.C. , reflects the president's admiration for classical Roman aesthetics. (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 21 Dario Fo , one of the most widely performed playwrights in modern theatre, received international acclaim for his highly
improvisational style. He was awarded the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997. (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 22 The
Venice Film Festival is the oldest film festival in the world. (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 24 Giorgio Moroder , pioneer of
Italo disco and
electronic dance music , is known as the "Father of disco". (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 25 The city of
Venice , ranked many times as the most beautiful city in the world (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 26 Antonio Vivaldi , in 1723. His best-known work is a series of
violin concertos known as
The Four Seasons . (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 28 The
Frecce Tricolori , with the smoke trails representing the
national colours of Italy , during the celebrations of the
Festa della Repubblica on 2 June 2005 (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 29 Giosuè Carducci . In 1906, he became the first Italian to receive the
Nobel Prize in Literature . (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 30 St Mark's Basilica in
Venice , one of the best known examples of Italo-
Byzantine architecture (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 31 Sergio Leone , widely regarded as one of the most influential directors in the history of cinema (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 32 The Azzurri in 2012. Football is the most popular sport in Italy. (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 33 Linguistic map of the
Italian language throughout the world
Official language
Secondary, widely spoken or understood
(from
Culture of Italy )
Image 35 Map of the
Italian diaspora in the world
Italy
+ 10,000,000
+ 1,000,000
+ 100,000
+ 10,000
(from
Culture of Italy )
Image 37 Samantha Cristoforetti is the first Italian woman in space. She holds the record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight by a European astronaut (199 days, 16 hours). (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 39 Royal Palace of Caserta , the largest royal residence in the world (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 40 An
Alfa Romeo 159 vehicle of the
Carabinieri corps (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 41 Anti-fascist demonstration at
Porta San Paolo in
Rome on the occasion of the
Liberation Day on 25 April 2013 (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 42 The historic seat of the
Corriere della Sera in via Solferino in
Milan (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 43 Starting in 1909, the
Giro d'Italia is the
Grands Tours ' second oldest. (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 44 Scrovegni Chapel . The chapel contains a
fresco cycle by
Giotto , completed about 1305 and considered to be an important masterpiece of
Western art . (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 48 Sanremo Music Festival is the oldest music competition in the world and one of the world's
longest-running television programmes . (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 49 Antonio Meucci , inventor of the first
telephone (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 50 Regional seat of
RAI in Cosenza (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 51 Olive oil and vegetables are central to the
Mediterranean diet . (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 52 Dante Alighieri , one of the greatest poets of the
Middle Ages . His epic poem
The Divine Comedy ranks among the finest works of
world literature . (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 53 The Creation of Adam is one of the scenes on the ceiling of the
Sistine Chapel of the Vatican, painted by Michelangelo sometime between 1508 and 1512. (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 56 The cover of the
Corriere dei Piccoli on 11 July 1911 carries a cartoon strip in the Italian style without speech bubbles. (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 60 Enrico Fermi , creator of the world's
first nuclear reactor . He is considered the "architect of the
nuclear age " and the "architect of the
atomic bomb ". (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 61 Guglielmo Marconi was the inventor of
radio . (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 62 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta was awarded the
Nobel Prize for Peace in 1907. He adopted the motto
In varietate unitas! which later inspired
Motto of the European Union . (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 64 Sandro Botticelli ,
The Birth of Venus (c. 1486).
Tempera on canvas. 172.5 cm × 278.9 cm (67.9 in × 109.6 in).
Uffizi , Florence. (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 65 Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana in Rome is a perfect example of modern Italian architecture. (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 66 Florence Cathedral , which has the biggest brick dome in the world (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 67 Giuseppe Verdi, one of Italy's greatest opera composers. Portrait by
Giovanni Boldini . (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 68 The
Forum of
Pompeii with
Vesuvius in the distance (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 69 Clockwise from top left:
Thomas Aquinas , proponent of natural theology and the Father of
Thomism ;
Giordano Bruno , one of the major scientific figures of the Western world;
Cesare Beccaria , considered the Father of criminal justice and modern criminal law; and
Maria Montessori , credited with the creation of the
Montessori education (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 70 Gelato is Italian ice cream. (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 71 Teatro di San Carlo ,
Naples . It is the oldest continuously active venue for opera in the world. (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 72 The
President of Italy Sergio Mattarella during his entry into the
Sala del Tricolore on the occasion of the
Tricolour Day on 7 January 2017 (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 74 Folkloristic reconstruction of the
Company of Death led by
Alberto da Giussano who is preparing to carry out the
charge during the
battle of Legnano at the
Palio di Legnano 2014 (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 75 Romulus and Remus , the
Lupercal ,
Father Tiber , and the
Palatine on a
relief from a pedestal dating to the reign of
Trajan (AD 98–117) (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 76 Traditional
pizza Margherita , whose ingredients,
tomato (red),
mozzarella (white) and
basil (green), are inspired by the colours of the national
flag of Italy . (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 80 Ferragosto fireworks display in
Padua on 15 August 2010 (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 81 World map of first level subdivisions (states, counties, provinces, etc.) that are home to
Little Italys or Italian neighbourhoods (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 82 David , by
Michelangelo (
Accademia di Belle Arti ,
Florence , Italy) is a masterpiece of Renaissance and world art. (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 83 William Shakespeare is an example of an Italophile of the 16th century. (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 84 Entrance to
Cinecittà in Rome, the largest film studio in
Europe (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 87 Milan Cathedral is the
fourth-largest church in the world. (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 89 Alessandro Manzoni is famous for the novel
The Betrothed (1827), generally ranked among the masterpieces of
world literature . (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 91 The
Altare della Patria in Rome, a
national symbol of Italy celebrating the first king of the unified country, and resting place of the
Italian Unknown Soldier since the end of World War I. It was inaugurated in 1911, on the occasion of the 50th
Anniversary of the Unification of Italy . (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 92 The
Roman Empire provided an inspiration for the medieval European. Although the
Holy Roman Empire rarely acquired a serious geopolitical reality, it possessed great symbolic significance. (from
Culture of Italy )
Image 94 A wooden puppet depicting the
Befana (from
Culture of Italy )
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