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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.
* In 2005 the centre-right
government led by Silvio Berlusconi proposed a new reform of the
constitution which would have entailed greatly increasing the powers of the
regions in
areas such as health and education.
* 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
* In 2005 the centre-right
government led by Silvio Berlusconi proposed a new reform of the
constitution which would have entailed greatly increasing the powers of the
regions in
areas such as health and education.
* 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)
* Besides Julius Caesar,
Shakespeare also set in Italy ( entirely or partially):
Romeo and Juliet, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra,
Coriolanus,
Cymbeline, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Titus
Andronicus,
The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Winter's Tale
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