Italy
has the fifth-highest population density in Europe--about
200 persons per square kilometer. Immigration has increased in recent years, however,
while the Italian population is declining overall due to low birth rates.
Although Roman Catholicism is the majority religion--85% of native-born
citizens are nominally Catholic--all religious faiths are provided equal
freedom before the law by the constitution.
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is located on the Italian
Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest islands
in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia.The Italian
Peninsula lodges two small independent
States: the Vatican City, in Rome,
and the Republic
of San Marino. Italian
capital is
Rome
and it has several places to visit, like the coliseum…
Italy has a mainly mountainous orography,
excepting the plain of the Po, and it extends from the Alps to the center of
the Mediterranean. It includes / understands
the islands of Sicily, Sardinia, Elbe and other 70 of smaller size. There are several
activates volcanoes in Italy:
Etna, the largest activates volcano in Europe; Vulcano; Stromboli; and Vesuvius,
the only activates volcano on the mainland of Europe.
On
the island of Gigli
in
Tuscany
there are wild goats called mufloni. This kind of goat is very endangered. There are also
rare frogs called Discoglossus Sardo.
Abruzzo, another region of
Italy
,
has several national parks. In Majella-Morrone National Park there are wolves,
the Marsican brown bear, chamois , red deer, roe deer, and 130 different kinds
of birds including the rare Peregrine falcon, Golden eagle, goshawk, eagle-owl
and a dotterel that nests only in this mountain in Italy.
Visitors say
that
Italy
is so expensive because it has a lot of places to visit. They love Italian,
because the Italian kitchen is one of the most refined and varied of Europe,
from flavorful prescriptions of Naples and Calabria to prepared with pesto sauce of
Liguria
, happening
through plates of cheese and the rice (risotti) of the alpine regions.
Size: 301,225 sq. km
Population
(2007 est.): 57.8 million.
Language: Italian (official).
Capital:
Rome
Climate: Generally mild Mediterranean; cold northern winters.
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Visit places
¤ Eat spaghetti, pizza…
¤ See the factory of Ferrari
¤ Study Italian
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