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Situated in Mediterranean Europe, Italy has land frontiers with France in the north-west, Switzerland and Austria
in the north and Slovenia in the north-east. The peninsula is surrounded by the Ligurian Sea, the Sardinian Sea
and the Tyrrhenian Sea in the west, the Sicilian Sea and the Ionian Sea in the south and the Adriatic Sea
in the east. Italian is the language of the majority of the population but there are minorities speaking German,
French, Slovene and Ladino. Italy is very beautiful,
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Area: 116,303 square miles Population: 56,778,000 Population density: 487/sq. mile Capital: Roma (2,775,000 inhabitants) Other important cities: |
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| Milan - Milano (1,369,000) | Firenze (403,000) | Messina (231,000) |
| Napoli - Napoli (1,067,000) | Bari (342,000) | Trieste (231,000) |
| Turin - Torino (963,000) | Catania (333,000) | Padova (215,000) |
| Palermo (699,000) | Venezia (309,000) | Cagliari (204,000) |
| Genova (679,000) | Verona (256,000) | Brescia (195,000) |
| Bologna (404,000) | Taranto (232,000) | Perugia (153,000) |
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Geographical Profile
There is a great deal of variety in the landscape in Italy, although it is characterized predominantly
by two mountain chains: the Alps and the Apennines. The former extends over 600 miles from east to west.
It consists of great massifs in the western sector, with peaks rising to over 14,000 feet, including
Monte Bianco (Mont Blanc), Monte Rosa and Cervino (the Matterhorn). The the chain is lower in the eastern sector,
although the mountains, the Dolomites, are still of extraordinary beauty.
At the foot of the Alpine arc stretches the vast Po Valley plain, cut down the middle by the course of the river Po
, the longest river in Italy (390 miles), which has its source in the Pian de Re (Monviso) and flows into the Adriati
c through a magnificent delta. The Alpine foothills are characterized by large lakes: Lake Maggiore
and the lakes of Como, Iseo and Garda. The Apennines form the backbone of the peninsula,
stretching in a wide arc concave to the Tyrrhenian Sea.
The Corno Grande (Gran Sasso d'Italia) is the highest peak. A large part of central Italy is characterized by a green
hilly landscape, through which the rivers Arno and Tevere (Tiber) run. The southern section of the chain pushes
out to the east forming the Gargano promontory and, sloping down further south, the Salentine peninsula.
It then proceeds to the west with the Calabrian and Peloritano massif stretching across the Strait of Messina into Sicily -
perfect for an Italian holiday. The principal islands are Sicilia, rising up to the great volcanic cone of Etna (10,860 feet)
and Sardegna
The main archipelagos are the Tremiti Islands in the Adriatic Sea, the Tuscan Archipelago, the Pontine Islands,
the Aeolian Islands and the Egadi Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of Sicilia.
Great Italian cars Part 1
You have to envy Lamborghini's President and CEO Stephan Winkelmann.(Not from Italy ?)
With chiselled good looks - like his company's cars - and the opportunity to drive them whenever he wants,
he's got a dream job. His role at the Volkswagen Group pre-show event included driving this spectacular
1.1-million Euro Reventón Roadster onto the stage before two stunning models took their places alongside
like sentries over the angular 205mph machine.Great for a tour of Italy!
Like its coupé relative the open-air Reventón is based on the Murcielago, though with a built number of just
15 - it makes its relative look positively common in comparison.
What's all the fuss about?
The Reventón Roadster not only makes its Murcielago relative look common, but dull too.
And it takes a very special car to do that. With more angles than a protractor the Reventón Roadster
is a riot of converging lines that wouldn't look out of place on a stealth fighter jet, the Lambo's performance
and price not far off a fighter plane's either. To park this alongside your Reventón coupé you'll need a spare
1.1 million Euros (before local taxes), which gets you perhaps the world's most exclusive roadster.
That alone is enough to ensure that a few billionaires step up and put down a deposit - all the coupés selling within
a few hours of Lamborghini announcing it two years ago in Frankfurt.
Any new technology?
You really won't care about technology when you see it, the Reventón Roadster quite the most
eye-catching machine we've ever set eyes on. Power comes from a 670bhp 6.5-litre V12 engine that drives through
a four-wheel drive system. Of all things great about Italy this has Italian cars have unbeatable design style
All that grip and grunt equate to a 0-62mph time of just 3.4 seconds and a top speed of 205mph.
The structure is already so stiff that Lamborghini claims a weight increase of just 25kg over the coupé.
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