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Italy (Italian: Italia [iˈtaːlja] (
listen)), officially the Italian Republic (Italian: Repubblica Italiana [reˈpubːlika itaˈljaːna]), is a country consisting of a continental part, delimited by the Alps, a peninsula and several islands surrounding it. Italy is located in Southern Europe, and is also considered part of Western Europe. A unitary parliamentary republic with Rome as its capital, the country covers a total area of 301,340 km2 (116,350 sq mi) and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. Italy has a territorial enclave in Switzerland (Campione) and a maritime exclave in Tunisian waters (Lampedusa). With around 60 million inhabitants, Italy is the third-most populous member state of the European Union.
Due to its central geographic location in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, Italy has historically been home to myriad peoples and cultures. In addition to the various ancient peoples dispersed throughout what is now modern-day Italy, the most predominant being the Indo-European Italic peoples who gave the peninsula its name, beginning from the classical era, Phoenicians and Carthaginians founded colonies mostly in insular Italy, Greeks established settlements in the so-called Magna Graecia of Southern Italy, while Etruscans and Celts inhabited central and northern Italy respectively. An Italic tribe known as the Latins 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 parts of Europe, North Africa and 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. Italy remained the homeland of the Romans and the metropole of the empire, whose legacy can also be observed in the global distribution of culture, governments, Christianity and the Latin script. (Full article...)
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Fiume was a Zara-class heavy cruiser of the Italian Regia Marina, named after the Italian city of Fiume (now Rijeka, Croatia), she was the second of four ships in the class, and was built between April 1929 and November 1931. Armed with a main battery of eight 8-inch (200 mm) guns, she was nominally within the 10,000-long-ton (10,000 t) limit imposed by the Washington Naval Treaty, though in reality she significantly exceeded this figure.
Fiume saw extensive service during World War II, having participated in several sorties to catch British convoys in the Mediterranean. She was present during the Battle of Calabria in July 1940, Battle of Cape Spartivento in November, and ultimately the Battle of Cape Matapan in March 1941. In the last engagement, Fiume and her sister ships Zara and Pola were sunk in a close-range night engagement with three British battleships. (Full article...)Selected picture -
A section of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo
South face of the Tofana di Rozes in the Parco naturale regionale delle Dolomiti d'Ampezzo
Interior of the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome
Sellajoch, South Tyrol and Trentino (seen from Pordoi Pass), Langkofel on the left, Piz Ciavazes on the right
The Forma Urbis Romae is a massive marble map of ancient Rome, created under the emperor Septimius Severus between 203 and 211.
Dome of Florence Cathedral
Porta Soprana is the best-known gate of the ancient walls of Genoa.
View of Piazzetta San Marco toward Grand Canal of Venice, at dawn, with Doges' Palace on the left and Biblioteca Marciana on the right.
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- ...that unemployment protection in Italy is guaranteed by the Italy's constitution?
- ...that in 2002, hundreds of former mobsters incarcerated in eight jails across Italy, supposedly having no way to contact one another, joined a hunger strike to protest against article 41-bis of the Italian Penitentiary Act?
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Pasta (US: /ˈpɑːstə/, UK: /ˈpæstə/; Italian pronunciation: [ˈpasta]) is a type of food typically made from an unleavened dough of wheat flour mixed with water or eggs, and formed into sheets or other shapes, then cooked by boiling or baking. Rice flour, or legumes such as beans or lentils, are sometimes used in place of wheat flour to yield a different taste and texture, or as a gluten-free alternative. Pasta is a staple food of Italian cuisine.
Pastas are divided into two broad categories: dried (pasta secca) and fresh (pasta fresca). Most dried pasta is produced commercially via an extrusion process, although it can be produced at home. Fresh pasta is traditionally produced by hand, sometimes with the aid of simple machines. Fresh pastas available in grocery stores are produced commercially by large-scale machines. (Full article...)List of fare/cuisine articles |
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Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy for almost ten years between 1994 and 2011.
Italian states (1815–1859).
Italy and the nearby islands in the 1st century BCE.
Giuseppe Verdi, one of Italy's greatest opera composers. Portrait by Giovanni Boldini.
Mussolini reviewing adolescent soldiers, late 1944.
Palazzo della Carovana, the current seat of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
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.
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
The Vitruvian man by Leonardo da Vinci, representing the ideal human proportions as described by Roman architect Vitruvius, is a quintessential masterpiece of the Renaissance.
Giuseppe Garibaldi, hero of Italian unification.
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.
The Capitoline Wolf sculpture in the Capitoline Museums. According to legend, Rome was founded in 753 BCE by Romulus and Remus, who were raised by a she-wolf.
Regional seat of RAI in Cosenza.
Pyramid of Monte d'Accoddi is an archaeological site in northern Sardinia, Italy, located in the territory of Sassari near Porto Torres. 4th millennium BC.
The Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence, which has the biggest brick dome in the world, and is considered a masterpiece of Italian architecture and world architecture.
Expansion of the territory known as Italy from the establishment of the Roman Republic until Diocletian.
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, the first Prime Minister in the history of Italy.
Pinocchio Disney film is based on The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi.
A 1905 Fiat advertisement.
Galileo Galilei, the founder of modern experimental science.
Neapolitan pizza Margherita.
Pasta with pesto sauce.
Andrea Palladio is often described as the most influential architect in the Western world.
Venetian dessert tiramisù.
Italian kingdom in 1919.
Federico Fellini, considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century.
Spanish Republican poster against the Italian intervention in the Spanish Civil War, reading "The claw of the Italian invader intends to enslave us."
Iron Age hut foundations on the Palatine Hill considered to be the Casa Romuli, the reputed dwelling-place of Romulus.
Petroglyph in Valcamonica, Lombardy, the largest collection of prehistoric petroglyphs in the world (10th millennium BC).
Official portrait of Benito Mussolini.
Umberto II, the last King of Italy, was exiled to Portugal.
The Roman Forum, the commercial, cultural, and political center of the city and the Republic which housed the various offices and meeting places of the government.
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is an Italian art masterpiece worldwide famous.
Antonio Meucci, c.1880, inventor of the first telephone
"Italophone" world.Official language.Secondary, widely spoken or understood.Understood by some due to former colonisation.
Sheets with the iconic picture of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, exposed as a sign of protest against Italian Mafia. They read: "You did not kill them: their ideas walk on our legs".
Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti was murdered a few days after he openly denounced Fascist violence during the 1924 elections.
St. Peter's Basilica is the world's largest Christian church. It is the second church to stand above the crypt (tomb) believed to hold the body of Saint Peter, the first pope.
David, by Michelangelo (Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence, Italy) is a masterpiece of Renaissance and world art.
The Battle of Bitonto by Giovanni Luigi Rocco
The Roman Empire at its greatest extent under Trajan in CE 117.
Antonio Vivaldi, in 1723. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as The Four Seasons
The historic seat of the Corriere della Sera in via Solferino in Milan.
the EUR in Rome is a perfect example of modern Italian architecture
The Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., reflects the president's admiration for classical Roman aesthetics.
Ambitions of fascist Italy in Europe in 1936.
Legend:Metropolitan Italy and dependent territories;Client states;Claimed territories to be annexed;Territories to be transformed into client states.Albania, which was a client state, was considered a territory to be annexed.
A chocolate gelato ice cream dessert.
The naval jack of the modern Italian Republic features the coats of arms of the four best known medieval Maritime Republics. Clockwise from upper left: Venice, Genoa, Pisa, Amalfi.
Map of Great Italy according to the 1940 fascist project in case Italy had won the Second World War (the orange line delimits metropolitan Italy, the green line the borders of the enlarged Italian Empire)
Map of Etruscan civilisation.
Entrance of Garibaldi into Naples on 7 September 1860
The Redipuglia War Memorial of Redipuglia, resting place of 100,000 Italian soldiers. More than 650,000 died on the battlefields of World War I. The total deaths for Italy amounted to 1,240,000.
Benito Mussolini during the March on Rome in 1922.
The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello (ca. 1438–40).
Commedia dell'arte troupe Gelosi in a late 16th-century Flemish painting.
Insurgents celebrating the liberation of Naples after the Four days of Naples (27–30 September 1943).
Marchese Guglielmo Marconi was the inventor of radio.
Italian Kingdom in 1861.
Residents of Fiume cheering D'Annunzio and his Legionari, September 1919. At the time, Fiume had 22,488 (62% of the population) Italians in a total population of 35,839 inhabitants.
From left to right, Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini and Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano at the signing of Munich Agreement.
Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, ca. 1482–85.
Mussolini and Hitler in June 1940.
The Venice Film Festival is the oldest film festival in the world and one of the "Big Three" alongside Cannes and Berlin
Italian cavalry in Trento on 3 November 1918, after the victorious Battle of Vittorio Veneto. Italy's victory marked the end of the war on the Italian Front, secured the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and contributed to the end of World War I just one week later.
Italian unification.
Fiat 600, iconic middle-class dream car and status symbol of the 1950-60s.
The signing ceremony of the Treaty of Rome on 25 March 1957, creating the EEC, forerunner of the present-day EU.
The Uffizi.
William Shakespeare is an example of an Italophile of the 16th century.
The Pompeii Lakshmi, an ivory statuette from the Indian subcontinent found in the ruins of Pompeii. The Indo-Roman trade relations, beginning around the 1st century BCE, testifies to extensive Roman trade in far away regions.
Chiostro of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.
French troops entering Rome in 1798
Milan Cathedral is the fourth-largest church in the world.
Italian prisoners in El Alamein, November 1942.
Italian states in 1796.
Contemporary engraving of Naples during the Naples Plague in 1656
Alcide De Gasperi, first republican Prime Minister of Italy and one of the Founding Fathers of the European Union
The celebration of the Azzurri for the first victory (of four) in the 1934 World football championship
Brunello di Montalcino is one of Italy's finest red wines, made around the town of Montalcino from a Sangiovese variant known locally as Brunello.
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.
Sergio Mattarella, President of the Italian Republic, elected on 3 February 2015.
The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, possibly one of the most famous and iconic examples of Italian art
Emirate of Sicily (831–1072).
Maximum extent of the Italian Empire
Italian Lombard kingdom (781–1014).
Ötzi, a natural mummy discovered in the southern Alps (region of Trentino-Alto Adige) dating from the 4th millennium BC.
Alessandro Manzoni, one of Italy's greatest 19th-century writers.
A Prada shop in Singapore.
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.
Italy and the Habsburg Empire in 1547.
Italy today.
This mosaic depicts some of the Gladiators entertainments that would have been offered at the games.
Michelangelo's David, one of the symbols of Italian Renaissance.
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.
Italian states in 1494.
the Arch of Constantine in Rome.
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