I T A L Y

Italy is style all the way. It’s shaped like a boot, and no ordinary boot this! Its fashions are enduring, its cars snazzy, its cathedrals calm, its landscape awesome, its piazzas packed and its pizzas…lip smacking-phenomenal!

For the visitor, Italy is a feast for the senses. You can’t go through Italia without a heightened consciousness of beauty.

The Colosseum, Rome
The Leaning Tower of Pisa

Whether in the glorious hues of the Tuscan landscape, in the seamless amalgamation of the riches of the past, the reality of the present and the hopes of the future, or in the majesty of the Alps, it is all one elegant casket of flavourful stuff. You may choose to do the popular circuit of Rome, Florence and Venice where there are more than enough museums, churches, piazzas and gondolas on canals to keep you happy. Or you may choose instead to strike out into the countryside where the pleasures derived from the scenery and the passionate people are enormous. At any rate, on any trip, Italy promises lots and delivers more.

F A C T     B O X

Country Name Italian Republic
Area 301,230 sq. km
Population 57,910, 000
Capital City Rome
People Italian
Religion Mostly Roman Catholicism. Some Protestantism and Judaism.
Language Italian

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Republic
Head of State President Carlo Azeglia Ciampi
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