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LOCATION
• Italy is located in Southern Europe on the long, boot-shaped Italian Peninsula, including Sicily and Sardinia and It has borders with: France, Austria, Slovenia and Switzerland. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within the Italian Peninsula.
• Its Capital city: is Roma
POLITICS IS CONCERNED
• Governament: Parlamentary, democratic republic.
• Presidents of the Italian republic: Giorgio Napolitano
• And the Prime Minister: Silvio Berlusconi
FOREIGN RELATIONS
• Member of the European Nations, the United Nations, North Atlantic. Treaty Organization and the OECD
ECONOMY. (INDUSTRY, SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY, RESOURCES…)
•A developed INDUSTRIAL NORTH •A primarily AGRICULTURAL.SOUTH
MAJOR EXPORTS ARE:
• Motor vehicles• Chemicals and petrochemicals• Energy and electric engineering • Home appliances• Aerospace and defense technologies• Firearms• Fashion• Food processing• Sport and luxury vehicles• Yachts• Wine
TOURISM
• Is one of the fastest growing and most profitable sector is the the national economy. Italy is the highest tourist earner and the fifth most visited country in the world.
ARCHITECTURE
• Different architectural styles, from Classical Roman and Greek, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-Classical, Art Nouveau to Modern.
• The nation contains several architectural monuments, such as:
• The Pantheon• The Coliseum• The Leaning Tower of Pisa• Villa Olmo• The Pirelli Tower
• Italy is equally as rich and impressive, with churches, basilicas, cathedrals and fountains such as:
• St Peter’s Basilica• Florence Cathedral• St Mark’s Basilica• Milan Cathedral• The Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore• Siena Cathedral• La Fontana de Trevi• Italy has also been home to nomerous famous architects, surch
as: Andrea Palladio, Filippo Brunrlleschi, bernini and Renzo Piano.
PAINTING AND SCULPTURE
• Italian painting is traditionally characterized by a warmth of colour and light and a preoccupation with religious figures and motifs. Notable artists include Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Donatello, Botticelli, fra Angelico, Tintoretto, Caravaggio, Bernini, Titian and Raphael.
LITERATURE
• Literary figures in Italy:• Giovanni Boccaccio• Giacomo Leopardi• Alessandro Manzoni• Petrarch (who invented the sonnet) • Dante Alighieri (who wrote the Divine
Comedy)
SCIENCE• The most important scientists were:• Leonardo da Vinci• Galileo Galilei (Scientific Revolution)• Enrico Fermi (First nuclear reactor)• Giovanni Domenico Cassini• Alessandro Volta (Electric battery)• Guglielmo Marconi (Nobel Prize in Physics.
Invention of the radio).
MUSIC
• The Renaissance composer: Monteverdi• Baroque :Vivaldi• Classical:Rossini• Romantic:Verdi and Puccini.
CINEMA
Film directors :• Vittorio De Sica• Federico Fellini• Sergio Leone• Pier Paolo Pasolini• Roberto Benigni• Films : La dolce Vita, il buono,il brutto,il
cattivo,La vita è bella
SPORTS
• Popular sports include: football, basketball, volleyball, waterpolo, fencing, rugby, cycling, ice hockey, roller hockey and motor racing..