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This site is intended for all those who love Italy. Italy is known worldwide for a variety of reasons. Our website will introduce you to interesting and informative facts about the life of Italy.

Italy Key Facts:

  • Location: Western Europe.
  • Area: 301,338 sq km (116,346 sq miles).
  • Capital: Rome.
  • Terrain: mostly rugged and mountainous.
  • Language: Italian.
  • Climate: Generally mild Mediterranean; cold northern winters.
  • Religion: 87.8% Roman Catholic with Muslim and Protestant minorities.
  • The currency in Italy is the euro (EUR).

Italy borders Austria, France, Vatican City, San Marino, Slovenia, and Switzerland. Italy has the fifth-highest population density in Europe - about 200 persons per square kilometer. The Seven Hills of Rome are Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine, Quirinal, and Viminal. Italy has produced some monumental and spectacular forms of art, which has nearly always been closely associated with the intellectual and religious currents of its day. At the same time it has managed to retain its own remarkable past as a continual source of inspiration.

Italy is home to two microstates, San Marino and Vatican City. Famous Italian explorers include Christopher Columbus, Marco Polo, John Cabot, and Amerigo Vespucci. Besides Julius Caesar, Shakespeare also set in Italy: 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 and The Winter's Tale.

Cuisine is absolutely a very important aspect of Italian culture. Italians are very proud of their cuisine and rightly so, for their food is renowned throughout the world. Italy offers a great range of wines famous all over the world. Pizza is a very popular dinner for Italians and for tourists. In Italy pizza falls into two distinct categories, Italian pizza and the rest of the world. Pizza is the result of a transformation developed over the centuries and it is a portrait of the people that have contributed to its own existence. It is a portrait of Italy.