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Many historic buildings in Italy feature old clock faces divided into six hours, which make four revolutions per day. A clock which counts only six hours has the advantage of being much simpler mechanically, as the wider gaps between the hour markings mean that the time can be clearly marked using only a single hand. [2]
Education in Italy is compulsory from 6 to 16 years of age, [2] and is divided into five stages: kindergarten (scuola dell'infanzia), primary school (scuola primaria or scuola elementare), lower secondary school (scuola secondaria di primo grado or scuola media inferiore), upper secondary school (scuola secondaria di secondo grado or scuola media superiore), and university (università). [3]
Italy alternates between Central European Time (Italian: Tempo dell'Europa Centrale, UTC+01:00) and Central European Summer Time (Italian: Orario Estivo dell'Europa Centrale, UTC+02:00), because it follows the European Summer Time annual Daylight saving time (Italian: ora legale) procedure. As such Italy begins observing Central European Summer ...
Date and time notation in Italy records the date using the day–month–year format (29 dicembre 2024 or 29/12/2024). The time is written using the 24-hour clock (20:34); in spoken language and informal contexts, the 12-hour clock is more commonly adopted, but without using "a.m." or "p.m." suffixes (8:34).
Boing is an Italian free-to-air television channel marketed at children and teenagers, owned by Boing S.p.A., a joint venture of Fininvest's MFE - MediaForEurope (through its Mediaset and RTI subsidiaries) and Warner Bros. Discovery (through its International division).
Nick Jr. is an Italian television channel, aimed at a pre-school children audience.It launched on 1 August 2009 on Sky Italia on channel 602 to replace RaiSat YOYO, which then became free and is now named Rai Yoyo.
DeA Kids, stylized as DᵉAkids until 2008; is an Italian children's television channel owned by De Agostini. The channel, was launched on October 1, 2008, on Sky Italia for children aged 4–14. A month later, a timeshift version of the channel, Dea Kids +1, was launched on November 10, 2008. [ 1 ]
In addition, after centuries of net emigration, since the 1980s Italy has experienced large-scale immigration for the first time in modern history. Italian government data, in its annual report for 2019, estimated the number of foreign nationals residing within Italy, including immigrants, at about 5.234 million. [ 3 ]