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Italy is the largest producer of wine in the world, and one of the leading producers of olive oil, fruits (apples, olives, grapes, oranges, lemons, pears, apricots, hazelnuts, peaches, cherries, plums, strawberries, and kiwifruits), and vegetables (especially artichokes and tomatoes). The most famous Italian wines are probably the Tuscan ...
The Maremmano-Abruzzese Sheepdog (Italian: Cane da pastore maremmano-abruzzese), also known as the Maremmano, Maremma Sheepdog, or Abruzzese Sheepdog (Italian: pastore abruzzese), among other names, is an Italian breed of livestock guardian dog. It is indigenous to central Italy, especially to the Maremma region of Tuscany and Lazio, and to ...
Villa Il Palagio. Coordinates: 43.6969003°N 11.4477724°E. Villa Il Palagio is a villa and farm estate in Figline Valdarno, in the province of Florence in the Italian region Tuscany. The estate has belonged to the musician Sting and his wife Trudie Styler since the late 1990s.
Tuscany has created a €2.8 million ($3 million) fund to buy and renovate homes in towns with less than 5,000 residents to bolster the rural population in its mountainous municipalities.
Localization of major and minor Medici villas in Tuscany. The Medici villas are a series of rural building complexes in Tuscany which were owned by members of the Medici family between the 15th century and the 17th century. The villas served several functions: they were the country palaces of the Medici, scattered over the territory that they ...
horned. Cattle. Bos primigenius. The Chianina (Italian pronunciation: [kjaˈniːna]) is an Italian breed of large white cattle. It was formerly principally a draught breed; it is now raised mainly for beef. It is the largest and one of the oldest cattle breeds in the world. [3] The bistecca alla fiorentina is produced from its meat.
The villa was located in the Ager Cosanus, 3.5 km from Cosa, a Latin colonia founded in 273 BC. The area was linked to Rome by the Via Aurelia from about 241 BC. After the Second Punic War (218 to 201 BC) in which Hannibal had left a trail of devastation across Italy, the rich bought up both public land and the small farms of the poor. [5]
The Pontine Marshes (/ ˈ p ɒ n t aɪ n / PON-tyne, US also / ˈ p ɒ n t iː n / PON-teen; Italian: Agro Pontino [ˈaːɡro ponˈtiːno], formerly also Paludi Pontine; Latin: Pomptīnus Ager [sg.] by Titus Livius, [1] Pomptīna Palus [sg.] and Pomptīnae Paludes [pl.] by Pliny the Elder [2] [3]) is an approximately quadrangular area of former ...