Italy has a highly developed social market economy. It is the third-largest national economy in the European Union, the 8th-largest economy in the world by nominal GDP, and the 12th-largest by PPP-adj
Milan is the main economic centre of Italy
The Barsanti-Matteucci engine, the first proper internal combustion engine
Terni steel mills in 1912
Benito Mussolini giving a speech at the Fiat Lingotto factory in Turin, 1932
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
Economy of Italy
…Italy has a highly developed social market economy. It is the third-largest national economy in the European Union, the 8th-largest economy in the world by…
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)