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Panettone Living nativity scene in Milazzo Christmas market in Merano Zampognari in Molise during the Christmas period. Christmas in Italy (Italian: Natale) is one of the country's major holidays and begins on 8 December, with the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, the day on which traditionally the Christmas tree is mounted and ends on 6 January, of the following year with the Epiphany ...
This was the first time that a Wikipedia had blanked all its content to protest. [14] [15] [16] The Wikimedia Foundation officially supported the decision of the Italian Wikipedia by a statement released the same day. [11] As of 5 October 2011 the manifesto, which replaced the Italian Wikipedia, had been viewed approximately 8 million times. [17]
The following are images from various Italy-related articles on Wikipedia. Image 1 A Ferrari SF21 by Scuderia Ferrari , the most successful Formula One team (from Culture of Italy ) Image 2 The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of Italy.
The Italian Catherine de' Medici, as Queen of France. Her fashions were the main trendsetters of courts at the time. Fashion in Italy started to become the most fashionable in Europe since the 11th century, and powerful cities of the time, such as Venice, Milan, Florence, Naples, Vicenza and Rome began to produce robes, jewelry, textiles, shoes, fabrics, ornaments and elaborate dresses. [8]
Italy is located in southern Europe and it is also considered a part of western Europe, [12] between latitudes 35° and 47° N, and longitudes 6° and 19° E.To the north, Italy borders Switzerland, France, Austria and Slovenia and is roughly delimited by the Alpine watershed, enclosing the Po Valley and the Venetian Plain.
In 1946, Antonietta, an impoverished single mother, arranges for her son Amerigo to travel from Naples to northern Italy to live with a host family as part of the treni della felicità (trains of happiness) initiative organized by the Italian Communist Party (PCI) to transport poor southern Italian children to northern families who could support them in the years after World War II.
Chicco was founded in 1958 in Como, Italy by Cavaliere del Lavoro Pietro Catelli, who wanted to celebrate the birth of his first son Enrico, dearly known as "Chicco".On the founder's death in 2006, the company passed to his three children, Enrico, Michele and Francesca, who would open new branches in India, [1] Russia, Mexico and Poland.
The "Fibre for Italy" project (with the participation of providers Fastweb, Vodafone, and Wind in a co-investment partnership) aims to reach 20 million people in Italy's 15 largest cities by 2015, [250] and Telecom Italia plans to connect 138 cities by 2018. [250]