1. ITALY This is a map of Italy. Italy is located in Mediterranean sea on the underside of Europe. Italy is a peninsula shaped like a boot with a couple of islands.

2. FOOD Pizza is a popular Italian food (bottom). Noodles is another popular Italian food (top left). Cheese is a popular Italian food (top right). Italy is also fomous for its desserts (middle right). They are famous for olive oil.

3. CITIES Venice (top left) is famous for its waterways and how they use them for transportation. Rome (bottom) is Italy's capital. Milan is a very large city(top right).

4. RURAL ITALY Top left is a rural cottage for rent. Bottom is a scene of the southern coast of Italy. Top right is a rural Italian village.

5. MOUNTAINS Top left is the Dolomite mountains in northern Italy. Top right is the Italian Alps. Middle left is an Italian Alps mountain lake. Bottom is Italian alps.

6. COAST Top is a coastal town. Bottom right is a coastal city. Middle left is an Italian beach. Bottom left is the Italian coastline.

7. VATICAN CITY Vatican City is an independent state from the rest of Italy. It is headed by the Pope. It is also the smallest country in the world. It is home of the Catholics These images are all of Vatican city

8. THE ROMANS Top left is the Roman colosseum which is desighned for veiwing. Even modern sports stadiums still have the same basic structure and desighn as this one. The roman empire controlled the entire area around the mediteranian sea, including Italy, from 27 BCE-14 CE.(map bottom) The roman forum is top right.

9. RENASSANCE The Renassance was an outburst of artwork, science, and culture starting in Italy and spreading through europe. It went from the 14 th century to the 17 th century. It is Italian for “rebirth” Two famous renassance artists were michaleangelo and leonardo da vinci (top left and right). On the bottom is the vitruvian man by leonardo da vinci, just one example of the many breakthroughs in this time period.

10. WORLD WAR 1 World War 1 was a huge war with France, Russia, Italy, the UK, and the US, on one side, and Germany, Austria- Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire on the other. It happened between 1914 and 1918. France, Italy, Russia, the US, and the UK won. These are all images of world war 1.

11. WORLD WAR 2 World war 2 occoured from 1939 to 1945. It was germany, Italy, and Japan,(the Axis powers), against China, Britan, France, US, and the Soviet Union(the Allied nations). The Allies won. Italies Facist leader, Mussolini, was overthrown by the Allies in 1943 These are all images of World War 2 in Italy.

12. ART Top is a painting by Micaelangelo for the Sistine chapel Bottom left is a painting by leonardo da Vinci called the “Mona Lisa”. Bottom right is a sculpture by Aguste Rodin.

13. MUSIC Bottom is Adriano Celentano, who dod everything from rock and roll to rap, and sold over 70 million records. Top left is Lady Gaga, who is probably the most popular Italian artist today. Top right is a famous Italian opera by Gioachino Rossini called The Barber of Seville.

14. ECONOMY Bottom is Italys currency, the euro. Top is Italys GDP composition. Italy used to have one of the weakest economies in europe, but in 2008, it had the 7 th largest in the world mostly because of the growing tourism.

15. TOURISM Tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors in the Italian economy. Italy is the 5 th biggest tourist destination and the 4 th highest tourist earner in the world. The Duomo is a large tourist attraction in Milan.(top) Bottom is the the tower of Pisa. Famous for how it leans.

16. POMPEII Pompeii was a ruined Roman city near present day Naples. It was ruined when mt. Vesuvius (top) erupted, covering it with ash. Middle is an image of Pompeii (bottom) when Vesuvius erupted, it coverd the city so well that the bodies were preserved as they died.

17. SPORTS This is the Italian soccer team. Soccer is the most popular italian sport. Soccer is a very old sport with many origins

18. RELIGION Italys main religion is Roman Catholic. Top right is a roman Catholic church. Top left is a Roman Catholic priest. Bottom is a Roman Catholic congregation.

19. ITALIAN BRANDS Diadora is a popular sporting brand.(bottom right) Maserati is a high quality Italian sport car brand.(top) Barilla is a popular Italian pasta brand.(bottom left)

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