Italia Il Bel Paese

The Astonishing Beauty of the Cities

Rome

Venice

Florence

Naples

Quiz for Kids

Tourism in Italy, Datas

Brochure

Venice

Venice is a city in northeastern Italy sited on a group of 118 small islands separated by canals and linked by bridges.

Places of Interest:

• Birdseye View of Venice

• Grand Canal Frames

• San Marco Clock Tower

• Unique Transportation Methods

Back to the Menu

Grand Canal

Saint Marco clock tower

Public Transportation

Police

Firefighters

Florence

• Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area.

Menu

Florence landscape

Rome

• Rome is the capital of Italy. His History spans more than two and a half thousand years, since its founding in 753 BC. It is one of the oldest cities in Europe.

• In the ancient world it was successively the capital city of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, and is regarded as one of the birthplaces of western civilization. Since the 1st century AD, Rome has been considered the seat of the Papacy and in the 8th century it became the capital of the Papal States, which lasted until 1870. In 1871 Rome became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy, and in 1946 that of the Italian Republic.

• Places of Interest:

• Coliseum

• Altare della Patria (The White Cake)

• Saint Peter in Rome

Menu

Coliseum 80 A.D.

Altare della Patria -1911

Saint Peter in Rome

The Creation of Adam

Naples

• Naples is the capital of Campania and the third-largest municipality in Italy, after Rome and Milan. As of 2012, around 960,000 people live within the city's administrative limits.

• Places of Interest:

Menu

Vulcan Vesuvius

The lost city of Pompeii

Pompeii perfectly conserved bodies (PG 13)

Vesuvius 1,280 meters high

Pompeii Covered in ashes in 79 A.D.

Perfectly conserved body shapes

79 A.D.

Tourism in Italy

• With more than 47.7 million tourists a year (2013), Italy is the fifth highest tourist earner,[1] and fifth most visited country in the world, behind France (84.7 million (2013)), United States (69.8 million (2013)), Spain (60.7 million (2013)) and China (55.3 million (2013)). People mainly visit Italy for its rich art, cuisine, history, fashion and culture, its beautiful coastline and beaches, its mountains, and priceless ancient monuments. Italy also contains more World Heritage Sites than any other country in the world.

• Tourism is one of Italy's fastest growing and most profitable industrial sectors, with an estimated revenue of €136.1 billion.

• Datas and Charts for Italian Tourism in 2014 (ISTAT):

• Tourism In Italy :Income by Cities

Menu

What food,that nowadays everybody eats in the world,has

been invented in Italy?

Italian Delicious Food