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Facts about Italy: February 2008

Facts about Italy

Interesting facts about Italy

Monday, February 25, 2008

Facts about Italy seaside

Facts about Italy seaside

If you have glad memories of a childhood on the beach excavation in the sand and running about on a wild English beach, you will discover Italian beaches absolutely exotic. Instead of expanses of sand, you'll discover rows of sunbeds, fences, gates and still discos. Even sand is optional, as long as there are sunbeds and ocean or a pond. Here going to the beach is a domestic fixation and governed by rigorous rules.

Access to the ocean is a prickly matter in Italy. Every year protestors try to 'recover' beaches, and consumer articles complain about the cost of beach holidays. As we publish this in 2007, a normal argument is taking spot on video about the police regarding beach approach. Consumer groups assert that the police entitles everyone to access to the ocean and to walk through personal beach establishments if needed, pointing away that these are beach 'concessions', not personal holding. They notify folk to ask the polizia municipale if they are refused approach.



Conciliatory local authories demand that the provision of available beaches and publicising their whereabouts should be enough. Basically the police is not interpreted purely and since local authorities take money from personal concessions (and local officials might still have them), there is less motive to better the position. What you discover will bet on the locality and how strictly laws are applied. You should be capable to walk along the beach within a 10m strip from the water's margin, and to give through personal establishments to have to the ocean, but you may easily discover you are prevented from doing then. Short of calling the police, your better wager is to take an available beach instead.

As an experimentation I newly explored the waterfront along the Lido in Venice. From the available beach (where there are available showers and a saloon) I walked along in face of the personal beaches, all lined with beach huts, sunbeds and parasols. Rather unclear signs displayed along the waterfront confirmed my right of approach. Guardians of the personal sections watched to guarantee I didn't consumption any personal facilities, but I did give a few sunseekers who had boldly laid their towels along the water's margin. The trickiest matter was finding a departure from the fenced beach: I finally establish a manner between beach huts, emerging in a saloon with an entry from the street.

An available beach - spiaggia libera - is normally signposted. It mostly consists of a thin stint of beach tight to the nearest route approach, and is recognizable by the absence of beach base, (regimented sunbeds etc. ) and by the presence of clusters of sunbathers lying on towels. There may be a saloon nearby, or a stall selling cool drinks. Some available beaches are provided with showers and national toilets. If you are visiting an available beach, bear in psyche that these beaches, particularly near cities (such as Ostia Lido near Rome) can be filthy, exceedingly crowded and not especially enjoyable. Take maintenance of your possessions and beware of unlawful pedlars. Some much remote stretches or remoter beaches may be often more enjoyable - request your hotel or a local for advice.



For a comfy beach stoppage, visitors could make as most Italians do, and employ a sunbed (lettino) and parasol (ombrellone. Seaside hotels frequently have a personal beach, sometimes across a route from the hotel. Others may get arrangements with local personal beaches. Note that still as a hotel client you might yet be expected to repay additional for the beach facilities: stop in rise if it's not clear-cut. Some beach huts and sunbeds are hired by the week or by the season; some beach establishments are members' clubs where locals go to sunlight themselves for a pair of hours a day.
Swimming is a really favorite action and a manner to chill downward on a warm summertime's day. Busy and personal beaches mostly have lifeguards dressed in crimson, and signs indicating secure depths. Some beaches have harmful currents, and every year Italy has a substantial amount of deaths from drowning. The presence of new swimmers isn't enough to ensure the safety of the water. Make certain you realize any signs displayed, and request for advice if you have any doubts. Tides are not really higher, nor can the waves be compared to those of the UK's craggy Atlantic beaches. There are, however, new threats lurking in the waters. Recently huge quantities of algae led to beaches being closed along Italy's southwestern coast. Jellyfish are popular, and their stings can be traumatic.
Normal Italian standards of wear do non use on the beach, although good nudity is kept for holy beaches which are mostly loose and far. However, as shortly as you get the sand, you should wrap upward. Swimming costumes, two-piece sides and bare-chested hands will have infraction formerly you're by from the beach.

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Sunday, February 24, 2008

Famous Italian people

Famous Italian people

FAMOUS ITALIAN INVENTORS

First person who made a chemical battery was Alessandro Volta in year 1800.

Cologne was invented by Johann Maria Farina in 1709.

Condom was invented by Gabriele Fallopio in 1564.

Espresso was invented by Machine Achille Gaggia in 1946.

Eyeglasses were invented by Salvino Armati in 1280.

Ice Cream Cone was invented by Italo Marcioni in 1896.

Liposuction was firstly made by Giorgio Fischer in 1974.

Parachute was invented by Leonardo Da Vinci in 1480.

Telephone was invented by Antonio Meucci in 1871.

Thermometer was invented by Galileo Galilei in 1593.

Wheel Lock was invented by Leonardo Da Vinci 16th Century.

Wireless Telegraphy was invented by Guglielmo Marconi 1896.

The famous Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci. He was a scientist, an artist and an inventor.

FAMOUS ITALIAN AUTHORS

One of the famous:

Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Giacomo Casanova, Umberto Eco, Mario Biondi, Giacomo Leopardi, Nicolò Machiavelli, Francesco Petrarca, Luigi Pirandello, Salvatore Quasimodo…

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Saturday, February 23, 2008

Famous cities in Italy

Famous cities in Italy

When you go to
Italy, you must visit Rome which is the capital city of Italy.



Second biggest city is
Milan. It is also center for high fashion, banking, international conferences and so on.



Then we have Venice, beautiful city on water, also known as the most romantic city.



If you want to visit town with rich history go to Padua.



Firenze is a city known by Renaissance architecture and by art itself.



Torino, host of the winter Olympics in year 2006.



Napoli, Bologna, Genova and so many more!These are only a few of many interesting and beautiful cities in Italy. The best thing is to buy a map, plane card and see its beauty on your own eyes.

Those were some mayor Italian cities on facts about Italy blog

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Foods in Italy

Foods in Italy

You can eat so many different kinds of food in Italy. It is very important that you try pasta and pizza. If you are visiting Italy and you don’t try at least these two dishes, you almost missed essence of Italy. You can eat pasta in hundred and one way – with tomato sauce, meat, different herbs, cheese, sea food,…




The same goes for pizza. Many years back, pizza was food only for poor people – bread with tomato sauce on it, some herbs for better taste and perhaps cheese if they were lucky. But through years, it became more and more famous.



Especially because is very quick to prepare, delicious to eat and easy to eat it anywhere. Now we know pizza all over the world and people all ages love to eat it.



Those were some facts about foods in Italy

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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Facts about Italy

Facts about Italy

Did you know this facts about italy:

is
Italy the 4th most visited country in the world, it has almost 40 million visitors.

is nearly 20% of
Italy’s population older than 65 years and that the average Italian family has 1.27 children.

the life expectancy at birth for an Italian is 79.54 years.

who invented the thermometer? A ventian, named Santorio Santorio.



where was written Pinocchio, the famous children story? In
Italy.

the average Italian consumes half a pound of bread a day and 25 kilograms of pasta a year. Pasta is also national dish.


Christopher Columbus, Marco Polo, John Cabot, and Amerigo Vespucci are Italians famous explorers.


before euro, the lira was Italy’s currency.

26 gallons of wine a year is consumed by the average Italian.


any nation in
Europe doesn’t have as much hotel rooms as Italy.

over 75% of
Italy is covered by mountains or hills.



Rome
is Italy’s largest city (5 million people), it was founded in 753 BC by Romulus and he was also firs king of Rome. Rome is also known as ‘The Eternal City’.

in
Italy lives over 58 million people.

colors of the Italian flag have different meanings: green (hope), white (faith) and red (charity).


Italy
’s largest islands are Sicily (home of the illicit Mafia criminal organisation ) and Sardinia.

Vesuvius, Etna, and
Stromboli are three active volcanoes in Italy.



Those were some basic facts about Italy

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Monday, February 11, 2008

Map of Italy

Here is a complete map of Italy