Today I would like to highlight some interesting and funny facts about Italy, one of the oldest countries: http://tours-tv.com/ru/italy
taly is truly a beautiful and fascinating country. It is on my list of the countries I would love to visit!
Italy’s boundaries encompass a territory larger than the U.S. state of Arizona. Italy has around 40 million visitors per year and has the most hotel rooms of any European nation. Most Italian Americans can trace their roots to Naples.
Italy is shaped like a boot!
Rome is the capital with a population of 3 million!
Italy has the Guinness Record for the country that has the most lifts.
Italy has the lowest birthrate in all of Europe. How strange since Italian families are so large! Italians live a very long time! They eat 66 pounds of pasta and 60 litres of wine a year!
Italy is surrounded by 5 seas:
Ligurian
Tyrrhenian
Mediterranean
Ionian
Adriatic
And 6 countries:
France
Switzerland
Austria
Slovenia
Vatican City
San Marino
Ciao for “hello” or “goodbye” come from schiavo meaning “at your service.”
Italian is perceived to be a romantic language.
There are many dialects in Italy; however the official language originates from Latin.
Naples introduced the world to pizza!
Canned herring are called sardines because they came from Sardinia. Cantaloupes are named after the gardens of Cantaloupe, Italy.
In Ivrea they celebrate Lent by throwing oranges at each other.
The average Italian eats around a half pound of bread a day and 26 gallons or wine a year!
Everyday 3,000 Euro get thrown into the Trevi Fountain.
The monogram SPQR can be found on buildings and means,” the senate and people of Rome.”
Florence Nightingale was named for the city of her birth.
Located Sicily the International Puppet Museum has 6,000 puppets.
The word trivia comes from the Latin trivium meaning the intersections of three roads.
Sixty percent of the world’s art treasures are in Italy.
Italy manufactures the world’s top sports cars like: Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Maserati and Alfa Romeo. In Lazio you can’t outrun the police if you try. They drive Lamborghini’s.
Italy has their own version of Romeo and Juliet. It is called “Promessi Sposi.” Opera was created in Italy.
The Mafia is big in Italy. No surprise! It is known as the Cosa Nostra. The others are known as the Camorra and Ndrangheta.
The Romans actually mastered plumbing. They started using copper piping and valves.
Rome is known as the “Eternal City” and the “Caput Mundi”.
There is a legend that the brothers Romulus and Remus founders of Rome were raised in a cave by a she-wolf!
Funny enough Rome’s emblem is a she-wolf suckling the two brothers.
You undoubtedly have heard about the city of Pompeii? It was buried after Mount Versuvius erupted in AD79. However, there were objects that were preserved. Scientists have actually been able to recreate replicas of Roman furniture!
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