Italy

By: Anna

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Longitude: 3

4 Things You Should Know

Population: 58,145,321 people

Total Area: 116,306

Capital City: Rome

Official Language: Italian

Italian Flag

• The colors of the Italian flag are red, white, and green

Italian Celebrities

• Some famous people are listed below

• Marco Polo- an explorer

• Sophia Loren- an actress

• Dante Alighieri- an poet

Popular travel spots

• Some popular travel spots are • Rome• Milan• Naples• Turin• Palermo• Genoa• Bologna• Florence• And Venice

Religion

• Almost all Italians are ethnic

• They go to roman catholic church

School

• School ages are 6-14

• They go weekdays and Saturday

• But they get long vacations

• They don’t have school activities like

• Sports

• Dance

• Or Yearbook

Wars

• They were on the winning side for world war one

• Italy blamed their government for heavy losses

• Mussolini their ruler hoped to gain more land for Italy

• He didn’t get voted out of office

Language

• They speak German

• They speak Slovene

• They speak French

• They speak Latin a lang. that closely resembles Italian

Government

• They have a president and a prime minister

• Here they are in order largest to smallest jobs

• Prime minister, president

Music and holidays

• Christmas is a favorite holiday

• On Christmas Eve (julaften) bells ring and families come together and give gifts

• They go to Christmas parties until the New Year

Life as a kid

• After school you would go to piazza

• You would be very close to each other

• The Grandparents live with them to help out

Italy

Bibliography

The bibliography for this power point was written out and handed in to Ms. Olson separately.