ABSTRACT
Italy is my favorite place to visit. It has many beautiful
cities, ancient history and a delicious cuisine.
English
Italy
Favorite place to visit
Italy, a European country with a long Mediterranean coastline, has left a powerful mark on Western
culture and cuisine. Its capital, Rome, is home to the Vatican as well as landmark art and ancient
ruins. Other major cities include Florence, with Renaissance masterpieces such as Michelangelo’s
"David" and Brunelleschi's Duomo; Venice, the city of canals; and Milan, Italy’s fashion capital.
The Colosseum is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, just east of the
Roman Forum. It is the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is still the largest standing
amphitheatre in the world, despite its age.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa, or simply the Tower of Pisa, is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower,
of Pisa Cathedral. It is known for its nearly four-degree lean, the result of an unstable foundation.
The Roman Forum, also known by its Latin name Forum Romanum, is a rectangular forum surrounded
by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the centre of the city of Rome.
Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum, or
simply the Forum.
The Trevi Fountain is an 18th-century fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, designed by Italian
architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Giuseppe Pannini in 1762 and several others.
Venice, the capital of northern Italy’s Veneto region, is built on more than 100 small islands in a
lagoon in the Adriatic Sea. It has no roads, just canals – including the Grand Canal thoroughfare –
lined with Renaissance and Gothic palaces. The central square, Piazza San Marco, contains St.
Mark’s Basilica, which is tiled with Byzantine mosaics, and the Campanile bell tower offering views
of the city’s red roofs.
Positano is a cliffside village on southern Italy's Amalfi Coast. It's a well-known holiday destination
with a pebble beachfront and steep, narrow streets lined with boutiques and cafes. Its Chiesa di
Santa Maria Assunta features a majolica-tiled dome and a 13th-century Byzantine icon of the Virgin
Mary. The Sentiero degli Dei hiking trail links Positano to other coastal towns.
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. Some of these foods were imported from other cultures. Significant changes occurred with the
colonization of the Americas and the introduction of potatoes, tomatoes, capsicums, maize and sugar
beet—the latter introduced in quantity in the 18th century. It is one of the best-known and most
appreciated gastronomies worldwide.
Italian cuisine includes deeply rooted traditions common to the whole country, as well as all the regional
gastronomies, different from each other, especially between the north, the centre and the south of Italy,
which are in continuous exchange. Many dishes that were once regional have proliferated with
variations throughout the country. Italian cuisine offers an abundance of taste, and is one of the most
popular and copied around the world. The cuisine has influenced several other cuisines around the
world, chiefly that of the United States in the form of Italian-American cuisine.
