Italy, officially the Republic of Italy, is a founding member state of the European Union, located in southwestern Europe. Italy is a unitary parliamentary republic and has a population of about 59 million, making it the third largest state in the European Union. The capital city is Rome.
Did You know that...
• Italy has its constitution since January,1st 1948?
• Italy is subdivided into 110 provinces and 20 regions?
• Italy hosts two independent states: the Vatican City and the Republic of San Marino?
• There have been twentyone Italian Nobel Prize winners?
• Italy is called il Belpaese, (thebeautiful country) by its inhabitants because of the beauty and variety of its landscapes and because it has the largest artistic heritage in the world?
• The history of Italian cinema began just a few months after the Lumière brothers discovered the medium when Pope Leo XIII was filmed for a few seconds in the act of blessing a camera?
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