Culture of Italy
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The culture of Italy encompasses the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, and social practices associated with the Italian Peninsula and, later, the modern Italian state. Italy has had a significa
St. Peter's Basilica, a representation of Renaissance and Baroque architecture
The Trevi Fountain in Rome
The Forum of Pompeii with Vesuvius in the distance
The Sistine Chapel ceiling, with frescos done by Michelangelo
Italy
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Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe. It consists of a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land border, as w
Culture of Italy
…means 'beyond the avant-garde'. Italian cuisine is a Mediterranean cuisine consisting of the ingredients, recipes, and cooking techniques developed in Italy since Roman times, and later spread around the world together with waves of Italian diaspora. Italian cuisine includes deeply rooted traditions common…
Etruscan fresco in the Monterozzi necropolis, 5th century BC
The Colosseum, widely considered one of the greatest works of architecture and engineering of ancient history
Marco Polo, 13th-century explorer
Leonardo da Vinci, quintessential Renaissance man, in a self-portrait (c. 1512)