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Geography - Italy is located in Southern Europe and comprises the Italian peninsula and a number of islands including the two largest, Sicily and Sardinia. The country's total area is 301,230 km ². It borders the Adriatic, Ionian and Tyrrhenian and the countries France, Austria, Slovenia and Switzerland.
Culture - Italy is one of the countries that had and has more influence on European culture and world in all areas of art and culture. They are Italian names, great polymaths, artists and geniuses as Dante, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Enrico Fermi.
Sights - the Colosseum, the Milan Cathedral and Florence cathedral, the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the building designs of Venice are found in Italy.
ART - Italy is the birthplace of many artistic and intellectual movement that spread across Europe and the world, as the Renaissance and Baroque. The Italian contribution to art and culture comes from the works of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Donatello, Botticelli, Fra Angelico, Tintoretto, Caravaggio, Bernini, Raphael and Titian, among others.
LITERATURE - The basis of the modern Italian language was established by the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri, whose work The Divine Comedy is considered the most important of the medieval period. Written in Italian Boccaccio, Castiglione and Luigi Pirandello, and the poets Tasso, Ariosto, Leopardi, and Petrarch, whose style is most famous sonnet, an Italian invention. Great philosophers are Bruno, Ficino, Machiavelli, Vico, Gentile, and Echo
MUSIC - From folk music to classical, the expression of sounds plays an important role in