Italy
According to simplewkipedia.org :
CULTURE, ARCHITECTURE, ART
'Italy is home to more World Heritage Sites than any other nation in the world. These sites are culturally important and valued according to UNESCO. About 60% of the works of art of the world are in Italy.
FOOD
Italy is famous for pizza, spaghetti Bolognaise (from Bologna), cannelloni, ravioli and many more types of pasta.
WINE
'Italy is also a big wine producer. In 2005 it made over 5 million tonnes. Famous Italian wines include
Asti -
Chianti,
Lambrusco and
Prosecco'
Regions:
Abruzzo L'Aquila (10,794) 1,324,000
Aosta Valley* Aosta (3,263) 126,000
Apulia Bari (19,362) 4,076,000
Basilicata Potenza (9,992) 591,000
Calabria Catanzaro (15,080) 2,007,000
Campania Naples (13,595) 5,811,000
Emilia-Romagna Bologna (22,124) 4,276,000
Friuli-Venezia Giulia* Trieste (7,855) 1,222,000
Lazio Rome (17,207) 5,561,000
Liguria Genoa (5,421) 1,610,000
Lombardy Milan (23,861) 9,642,000
Marche Ancona (9,694) 1,553,000
Molise Campobasso (4,438) 320,000
Piedmont Turin (25,399) 4,401,000
Sardinia* Cagliari (24,090) 1,666,000.
Sicily* Palermo (25,708) 5,030,000.
Tuscany Florence (22,997) 3,677,000.
Trentino-Alto Adige* Trento (13,607) 1,007,000.
Umbria Perugia (8,456) 884,000.
Veneto Venice (18,391) 4,832,000.
AOSTA is a ski region. Mont Blanc (in French meaning white mountain) is a highest mountain in Italy.
Genoa is a port in the Liguria region. Christopher Columbus is said to have come from Genoa, hence his keen-ness on travelling by boat to make his fortune, escape in 1592, the day the Inquisition started, and head for India, arriving by mistake in America.
Prosecco comes
Milan is the industrial north and has nine million people, nearly ten, in the region of Lombardy.
If you visit Switzerland you can get the train down into Northern Italy. We travelled to Milan by train to see Milan cathedral later afternoon and in the evening an opera at La Scala.
I visited the islands of Sicily and Sardinia, Sicily on a cruise ship, seeing the Roman ruins. I had a beach holiday at Sardinia, another at Viareggio.
I also stayed at Venice Lido, Lido de Jesolo, a beach outside Venice, and went to visit Venice and St Mark's Square with its pigeons, saw the canals and bought little glass figurines.
Prosecco comes from the NE Venezia region, starting in the place called Prosecco, then a grape called Prosecco became so popular it is gradually spreading to meet demand.
Tuscany
The capital of Tuscany is Florence on the West coast, where they grow the San Gervase grape which makes the wine called Chianti after the village.
Umbria
The two biggest tourist attractions are Assisi, which has the birthplace and burial place of St Francis of Assisi. A trail can be followed by bikers, walkers on a pilgrimage, hikers or history buffs. We saw the hovel where St Francis slept in a village which also has a museum or Roman remains including a large mosaic floor.
Umbria is a mountainous region known for little hill-top villages, known for truffles, snuffled up from under the trees on the lower slopes, and from olive trees they get olives and olive oil.
Orvieto wine comes from the town of Orvieto in the South West corner of Umbria. They mix San Gervese (Which the Tuscan area uses for Chianti, with a local grape called Sangrantino di Montefalco (mountain of falcans). I must admit I didn't see a single falcan, neither obligingly perched on a branch for a photo nor flying past hunting prey.
Asti is a village, and Barolo is another, both in the
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umbriatourism.it
Photos by Angela Lansbury Copyright. November 2016.
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