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Italy has the third longest medaling streak after Sweden and Finland. Italy has medaled in 40 straight Olympic games, starting with the 1936 Summer Olympics. Italy had finished the Summer Olympic Games: 2nd in 1932, 3rd in 1960, 4th in 1936, and 5th in 1924, 1928, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1964, 1980 and 1984.
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 ...
One of the city's most expensive, famous and luxurious streets, it was epitomised in the 1950s and 60s in Federico Fellini's 1960 La Dolce Vita. Today, it contains several exclusive apartments, grand hotels and elegant shops. Public square: Piazza Colonna: 16th-century Renaissance, including some Baroque 18th- and 19th-century buildings
Milan Cathedral, the largest church in the Italian Republic and third largest in the world, [1] is the city's most popular tourist destination [2]. The Italian city of Milan is one of the international tourism destinations, appearing among the forty most visited cities in the world, ranking second in Italy after Rome, fifth in Europe and sixteenth in the world.
While in the past the corridor was stuffed with over 1,000 artworks from the 18th century onwards, including a vast collection of self-portraits, today the walls are bare — recreating the feel ...
The Villa Doria Pamphili is a seventeenth century villa with what is today the largest landscaped public park in Rome and enjoyed as a place of leisure by the inhabitants of Rome. It is located on the Gianicolo or the Roman Janiculum , just outside the Porta San Pancrazio in the ancient walls of Rome where the ancient road of the Via Aurelia ...
Way.com explores 10 destinations for the traveler looking to get off the beaten path.
Truffle hunting and extraction in Italy, traditional knowledge and practice 2021 01395: Lipizzan horse breeding traditions + [g] 2022 01687: Transhumance, the seasonal droving of livestock + [h] 2023 01964: Transhumance is a type of pastoralism or nomadism, a seasonal movement of livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures.