Welcome to Italy

1946
The population is about 60 million
The surface is 301,338 km2
It is divided in 20 regions
Italy hosts 2 foreign countries, the Republic of S.Marino and Vatican City.
The capital and largest city is Rome
More than 75% of Italy is hilly or mountainous.
Italy is the fourth most visited country in the world, with about 5 million visitors annually.
About 85% of Italians are Roman Catholic.
The average Italian eats about 30 kg of pasta per year and drinks 98 liters of wine.
The climate is Mediterranean with hot, dry summers and mild, rainy

his rule, the Tuscan city of Florence started the Renaissance movement.

Pio II Piccolomini Great humanist and promoter of the arts. He renewed his birth city that took the name Pienza after him

Cristoforo Colombo Columbus is the first European to have discovered the Americas when he landed in the Caribbean in 1492.

architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo is the biggest genius of humanity.

Raffaello
In Rome he was known as the "Prince of Painters". He spent the last 12 years of his life in Rome creating many of his most famous works.

of electrical potential has been named the ”volt” after him. The battery he made is the first electrochemical cell.

Pythagoras Mathematician, mystic and Scientist from Sicily. His most famous work is the Pythagorean theorem

Galileo Galilei Thanks to his discoveries he can be considered the Father of modern observational astronomy, modern physics and of modern science“.