According to COUNTRYAAH.COM, Italy or officially the Italian Republic is located in the central southern part of Europe and consists for the most part of a boot-shaped peninsula. In addition, a large number of islands belong to the country. The largest of these are Sardinia and Sicily. The capital is […]

“That was magnificent Genoa. This playful diversity of houses, churches and palaces in the thin heavenly air, shining with an incomprehensible blueness, was the only one. N.V. Gogol “Genova la Superba” – magnificent Genoa. This is how the Italians call this majestic port city, the capital of the historical region […]

In anticipation of the 2006 elections, a new candidacy of R. Prodi at the helm of a large center-left coalition (The Union) was being defined as Berlusconi’s antagonist. Prodi’s plan aimed at the gradual constitution of a force, more stable than an electoral aggregate, which would unite the various reformist […]

The tensions on the issues of work and19 March in Bologna by the new Red Brigades, by the jurist M. Biagi, consultant to the Minister of Welfare and involved in defining the technical aspects deriving from the changes to labor regulations. The return of terrorism, limited as it might appear, […]

The Berlusconi government took office in June, with G. Fini as deputy prime minister and Bossi as minister for institutional reforms. Supported by a large majority, the government accentuated its legislative initiative by passing a series of delegating laws: it was a political and operational choice, not a new one, […]

The first years of the new century remained characterized by a clear contrast between the two political camps of center-right and center-left. This systematic conflict, devoid of the possibility of confrontation and meeting between the parties, except for a few rare occasions in foreign policy, remained the political figure of […]

According to sunglassestracker.com, the Patrimonium sancti Petri before the recuperationes corresponded to the Byzantine duchy of Rome, over which the popes began to exercise exclusively the “concrete rights linked to sovereignty” (Toubert, 1987, p. 155), starting from the moment in which, Ravenna in the hands of the Lombards, there was […]

Detached from the kingdom of Italy and united first to the Duchy of Bavaria, then to that of Carinthia, it took its name from the city which, due to its position at the entrance or, if you prefer, at the mouth of the Adige valley, was of great strategic importance. […]

He first of all mentions Apulia, that is, the territory of the continental part of the kingdom of Sicily (including the current regions of Abruzzo, Molise, Campania, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria), distinguishing, with respect to the Apennine ridge that crosses it, its western and Tyrrhenian side from the east and the […]

At the same time, Paolo already seems to have almost given Venice a city, on a few islands in the lagoon. For it he uses the plural Venetiae, which however immediately after, while hinting that it is now this new second sense to prevail, also uses in reference to the […]

The toponym Italy, of Oscan origin, approached from the etymological point of view to Lat. vitulus (‘calf’) and variously interpreted (Rauhut, 1953; Marcato, 1990), initially referred to the southern extremity of Calabria. Already in the classical era, and officially under the empire of Augustus (27 BC14 AD), Italy went on […]

Basic travel information Cycling week in Tuscany, Italy. Cycling in the idyllic countryside of Tuscany perhaps offers Italy at its best, away from the hustle and bustle of big cities. Tuscany in central Italy is known worldwide for its picturesque landscapes: medieval villages and historic small towns dotted with hills […]