Archive for August, 2010

• “Italian Republic” is the authorized name of the country, Italy.
• The capital city of Italy is Rome and this city was founded during 753 BC. Rome is popularly called as “the Eternal City.”
• The residents of the country are referred to as “Italians” and Italians refer to the country as “Italia.”
• The flag of Italy has three colors: Green that depicts hope, White depicts faith and Red shows charity.
• The Italian is a Romance language and consists of many dialects. It is associated with many other Latin languages such as Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish and French.
• Italy is a birthplace for some of the popular personalities like Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilee, Archimedes, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Raffaello, and others.
• The famous works of Shakespeare were set in Italy, like Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, and many more.
• The Colosseum, St. Peter’s Basilica, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Spanish Steps and the Arena of Verona are some of the examples of the country’s architecture.
• Number ‘17’ is considered as unlucky in Italy.
• The country boasts 600 Italian television channels, which is the highest when compared with the other countries in the world.
• Italians wear red colored dress on New Year Day as it is believed lucky and to eat lentils.
• ‘Mamma Mia,’ which means ‘my mummy’ is the word used by the people when they want to say ‘my goodness.’
• In 18th century, Pizza was invented in Naples, which was just dry, flat bread, considered food for the poor people.
• The fashion capital of the world “Milan” has some of the major Italian fashion brands like Gucci, Armani, Prada, Valentino, Versace, and Dolce and Gabbana.
• Italy is popular for the production of cars such as Ferrari, Fiat, Lamborghini, Maserati and Alfa Romeo.
• The first word the Italians say in a telephone conversation is “Pronto.” This is even before saying ‘Hello.’
• The important food of Italy is Pasta, consisting of 350 various types and shapes of Italian dried pasta.
• “Mona Lisa,” the world’s most famous and valuable painting, was created by an Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.

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