ITALY

Is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest islands in the Mediterraneum Sea, Sisily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within the Italian Peninsula, while Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland.

The Italian climate is very hot in summer, especially in the south of the peninsula, with high temperatures at night, while in northern Italy there is usually thunder storms. The winters are very cold and wet in the north and the mountainous area. In spring and autumn, the Sirocco, a warm wind from Africa, the temperature rises from the peninsula. By the summer should bring light clothes of cotton and linen, while the winter requires bringing something more sheltered, although you can also think about half of garments station if it goes south.

Culture

Italy is renowned for its art, culture and numerous monuments, including the Tower of Pisa and the Roman Colosseum, as well as for its cuisine, the dishes are famous Italian pizza and pasta, wine, your lifestyle, your painting , Design, literature and music, especially opera. He won the last world.

ROMAN COLISEUM

The Coliseum (Colosseum in Latin), originally named Flavio Amphitheater (Amphitheatrum Flavium), is a large building in the center of the city of Rome. In ancient times had a capacity for 50,000 spectators, with eighty rows of bleachers. Those who were near the sand were the Emperor and the senators and, as you stood were lower strata of society. Took place at the Coliseum gladiator fights and public spectacles. It was built just east of the Roman Forum, and construction began for 70 d. C. and 72 AD, under mandate of the Emperor Vespasian. The amphitheater, which was the largest ever built in the Roman Empire, was completed in 80 d. C. by the Emperor Titus, and was amended during the reign of Domitian