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Please find below a few
interesting facts about Italy:
* Italy has the two largest
Island in the Mediterranean Sea Sicily and Sardinia.
* The Azzurri, Italian for light
blue, represents the name of their soccer team. Though, don't
call it soccer overseas! In Europe, especially places like Italy, it's
called football. Azzurri
refers to the colour of the national soccer team's home jersey, and now fans
cheer them on
with colourful chants alluding to the blue of their home country.
* Rome has been estimated to have
a Population of 2, 700, 000
* Italy shares its northern
Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia.
* Milan is Italy's second city
with a population of 1, 300, 000
* Italy has twenty regions, five
of which are autonomous regions with a special statute
* The Azzurri, Italian for light
blue, represents the name of their soccer team. Though, don't
call it soccer overseas! In Europe, especially places like Italy, it's
called football. Azzurri
refers to the colour of the national soccer team's home jersey, and now fans
cheer them on
with colourful chants alluding to the blue of their home country.
* Italy has several volcanoes,
and one that is still active even into this century.
* Italy has several volcanoes,
and one that is still active even into our current century.
Mount Vesuvius is one of three active volcanoes in continental Europe (the
other two,
Etna and Stromboli, are also in Italy).
* Mount Vesuvius is also
considered one of the most famous volcanoes in the world. Its name is
recognized in many places, even when volcanoes aren't even an after-thought.
Pompeii, an Italian city, was destroyed by Vesuvius in AD 79; the city was
buried under lava and thousands of people were swept up in the molten mess.
* Here are the regions:
1. Abruzzo (formerly northern
Abruzzi) L'Aquila
2. Aosta Valley (Valle d'Aosta / Vallée d'Aoste) Aosta (Aoste)
3. Apulia (Puglia, sometimes Puglie) Bari
4. Basilicata Potenza
5. Calabria Catanzaro
6. Campania Naples (Napoli)
7. Emilia-Romagna Bologna
8. Friuli-Venezia Giulia Trieste
9. Lazio Rome (Roma)
10. Liguria Genoa (Genova)
11. Lombardy (Lombardia) Milan (Milano)
12. Marche Ancona
13. Molise (formerly southern Abruzzi) Campobasso
14. Piedmont (Piemonte) Turin (Torino)
15. Sardinia (Sardegna) Cagliari
16. Sicily (Sicilia) Palermo
17. Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Trento
18. Tuscany (Toscana) Florence (Firenze)
19. Umbria Perugia
20. Veneto Venice (Venezia)
* The Tower of Pisa... do you
know why it's leaning? Well, when first built, the top soil the foundation
was built on wasn't entirely stable, but the builders didn't know it at the
time. They built the entire tower, and as the years went by, it began to
slowly tip to one side.
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