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The Colosseum in Rome, one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world The city of Venice, ranked many times as the most beautiful city in the world [1] [2] The Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence by Filippo Brunelleschi, which has the largest brick dome in the world, [3] [4] and is considered a masterpiece of world architecture The Sassi di Matera have been described by Fodor ...
Galata is a historic district of Istanbul, Turkey, and until the 15th century, home to one of the most important Genoese communities in the Mediterranean.Therefore, in the late 19th century, when the Municipality of Genoa built a district of commercial docks, the oldest of these was given the name of the ancient colony.
Italy has 1,371 endemic plant species and subspecies, [152] which include Sicilian fir, Barbaricina columbine, Sea marigold, Lavender cotton, and Ucriana violet. Italy is a signatory to the Berne Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats and the Habitats Directive. Italy has many botanical and historic gardens. [153]
Italy is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe, located primarily upon the Italian Peninsula. It is where Ancient Rome originated as a small agricultural community about the 8th century BC, which spread over the course of centuries into the colossal Roman empire , encompassing the whole Mediterranean Basin and spreading Roman ...
Emilia-Romagna has many small and picturesque villages, 16 of them have been selected by I Borghi più belli d'Italia (English: The most beautiful Villages of Italy), [27] a non-profit private association of small Italian towns of strong historical and artistic interest, [28] that was founded on the initiative of the Tourism Council of the ...
Verona (/ v ə ˈ r oʊ n ə / və-ROH-nə; Italian: ⓘ; Venetian: Verona or Veròna) is a city on the River Adige in Veneto, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. [3] It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region, and is the largest city municipality in the region and in northeastern Italy.
The geography of Italy includes the description of all the physical geographical elements of Italy. Italy, whose territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region , [ 1 ] is located in southern Europe and comprises the long, boot-shaped Italian Peninsula crossed by the Apennines , the southern side of Alps , the large plain of ...