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Italy
Italy is a country in Europe, has lots of interesting places. Its territory is made up mainly the Italian peninsula and two islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. In thenorth is bordered by the Alps, where it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia. The independent states of San Marino and Vatican City are enclaves within Italian territory.
It has been home tomany European cultures such as the Etruscans and Romans and was the birthplace of the Renaissance, which began in the Tuscany region and soon spread throughout Europe. The capital of Italy, Rome, wasfor centuries the political and cultural center of Western civilization, and is also the holy city to the Catholic Church, for within the city is the micro state of the Vatican.
It is the thirdEuropean Union country that receives more tourists per year, Rome's third most visited city. Other major cities are Milan, center of finance and industry, and according to the Global Language Monitor, thecapital of fashion, Naples and Turin, the center of automotive and industrial design.
TOPOGRAPHY
The relief shows four regional units: the north, a sector dominated by continental Alps, an areasouth articulated by the Apennine peninsula, between the two is the plain of the Po or Po, and finally the volcanic islands.
CLIMATE
You can differentiate the country into three climatic regions:Mediterranean climate in southern Italy, with hot summers exceeding 30 ° C, the plains of the Po river, where the winter is very cold in northern countries and the Alps, and the Apennines, with coldweather and heavy rainfall.
ECONOMY
Industrial activity has been the engine of Italian development, and the current focus of its economy. Agriculture is more widespread with cereal crops (wheat,rice, the first European producer, maize), pulses, industrial plants (sugar beet), vegetables, etc.
DEMOGRAPHICS
In late 2008 the country's population exceeded 60 million, the fourth most populous...
Italy is a country in Europe, has lots of interesting places. Its territory is made up mainly the Italian peninsula and two islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. In thenorth is bordered by the Alps, where it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia. The independent states of San Marino and Vatican City are enclaves within Italian territory.
It has been home tomany European cultures such as the Etruscans and Romans and was the birthplace of the Renaissance, which began in the Tuscany region and soon spread throughout Europe. The capital of Italy, Rome, wasfor centuries the political and cultural center of Western civilization, and is also the holy city to the Catholic Church, for within the city is the micro state of the Vatican.
It is the thirdEuropean Union country that receives more tourists per year, Rome's third most visited city. Other major cities are Milan, center of finance and industry, and according to the Global Language Monitor, thecapital of fashion, Naples and Turin, the center of automotive and industrial design.
TOPOGRAPHY
The relief shows four regional units: the north, a sector dominated by continental Alps, an areasouth articulated by the Apennine peninsula, between the two is the plain of the Po or Po, and finally the volcanic islands.
CLIMATE
You can differentiate the country into three climatic regions:Mediterranean climate in southern Italy, with hot summers exceeding 30 ° C, the plains of the Po river, where the winter is very cold in northern countries and the Alps, and the Apennines, with coldweather and heavy rainfall.
ECONOMY
Industrial activity has been the engine of Italian development, and the current focus of its economy. Agriculture is more widespread with cereal crops (wheat,rice, the first European producer, maize), pulses, industrial plants (sugar beet), vegetables, etc.
DEMOGRAPHICS
In late 2008 the country's population exceeded 60 million, the fourth most populous...
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