Italy

Culture of Italy INTRODUCTION: Some of you may think about the people of Italy as typical Italians running around town eating pasta and drinking wine. Surprise, surprise, you’re right. Wouldn’t you be doing the same thing if you lived in this gorgeous country? For Italians, it’s simple, eating and drinking is a part of their culture. It is what they know. All eating and drinking aside, for now, as most of you know Italy is located in Europe. It has a population size of 32 million people to whom

Geography/Location of Italy Out of the seven continents in the world, Italy; The seventy second largest nation in the world is located in Europe. Italy is a boot-shaped country that covers 294,149 square kilometers of land and 7,200 square kilometers of water, totaling 301,340 square kilometers and is apart of the eastern Hemisphere and located in Southern Europe. Located in the Mediterranean Sea is where this Peninsula lies and is surrounded by rolling hills, valleys, along with Alps and Apennine

INTRO The beautifully known country of Italy had been a modern nation state for hardly half-century and the Kingdom of Italy was not declared until 1861. King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia, after the efforts of the great Italian statesman Camillo Benso di Cavour and the military campaigns of Giuseppe Garibaldi. “The young state of Italy faced many problems in the late 19th and early 20th centuries” (Sailus, 2016). The split nature of its beginnings caused massive differences in terms of regional

The period between 1870 and 1923 Italy was in an era commonly regarded as “Liberal Italy” a time when the Italian government was a notoriously weak and unstable liberal democracy. The Italian people now felt that their government lacked two important features entering WW1 , including Mussolini : national identity and strength of government. Italy became a unified state in 1861, although it remained divided at heart due to the diverse culture of each individual city-state . This lack of country unity

Introduction There is a saying that states ‘one either lives to eat or eats to live’ and Italy as a country is ruled by the former. Italy is a culture that is rich and saturated in their traditions of cooking. They take pride in their food and live by the credo that food is only used if it is fresh, local and in season. There has been much debate on what defines Italian food and through research one can see that Italian food is not typical of a specific dish, rather that each region offers a new

2017 Index of Economic Freedom (The Heritage Foundation), Italy is ranked 79th in economic freedom, whereas, the United States is ranked 17th. The economy status in Italy has faced many challenges including political and financial hardships. Since 2011, public debt has been on the rise and currently sets at more than 130 percent of GDP. (http://www.heritage.org/index/country/italy, 2017) Some of the opportunistic areas found in Italy include technologies, renewable energies, valuable consumer

Italy like almost all other European countries also suffered large population losses due to mass emigration during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Until the 1870s, Italian emigration was on a rather moderate level in comparison to other European countries. Between 1876 and 1970, about 25 million Italians left the country in search of work. Italy is occupying a peninsula that juts deep into the Mediterranean Sea. And Due to the geographical position coming to Italy through the Mediterranean

Italy has not existed as a country for long--for a while, Italy was a politically divided combination of states. In 1799, Russia and Austria managed to expel France from Italy, but this only lasted until the Italian provinces and city-states were once again conquered by France and fell under the rule of Napoleon. Napoleon established the Kingdom of Italy, but with his downfall came the territorial provisions of the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Throughout these decades, the Italian states were greatly

Italy Italy is an European country. Italian is its official language, and 93% of the population is native Italian speakers. Its ethnic background includes small clusters of German-Italians, French-Italians, Slovene-Italians, Albanian-Italians, and Greek-Italians. With various clusters of people come various beliefs in religion. Religion has influenced the culture, artists, and national treasures of Italy in various ways. Culture is one aspect of Italy that is highly influenced by religion

Italy is one of the world’s most amazing countries, its full of sites, activities, so many things that you could never be bored. Italy is located in southern Europe, it surrounds two if the world’s smallest countries. Italy’s culture is amazing and unique, it has many unique qualities and features in its culture. Italy has many regions along with it, just for one country. It has twenty regions. Italy also has many more amazing facts and sites about its country and the people. Italy has an amazing