Italy "Antipasto Misto"

prestotours | 15 June, 2010 04:32

Here's some Italy "antipasto misto"...that is random little facts to munch on ;)!

The population estimates of Italy as of 2007 was about 60 million.

Italy's biggest cities (in order of size):  Rome (~3 million), Milan (~1.3 million), Naples (~1 million), Turin (~900,000), Palermo (~680,000).

Italy's population is 87.8% Roman Catholic.

Though it has been unified since 1871, there is still a huge degree of disparity and differences between the North and the South.  The Northern regions are more industrialized and prosperous compared to less developed and more agricultural southern regions.  The origins of this comes from the Renaissance when the North prospered and grew while the South suffered and didn't develop under French and Spanish rule.

Some of Italy's major industries are cars, fashion/clothing/footwear, machinery, and tourism of course!

The officially recognized  modern Italian language was actually established by poet/writer Dante Alighieri, who you may know from his works The Divine Comedy.

Italy has several active volcanos: Etna (the largest active volcano in all of Europe), Stromboli, Vulcano, and Vesuvius (also the culprit in the great eruption which destroyed  ancient city of Pompeii).

The Bubonic Plague killed one third of Italy's population in 1348! In fact in lots of places you can still see how quickly this happened, for example this is why the Duomo in the Tuscan city of Siena is still actually an unfinished project.

Italy has bragging rights for being the birthplace  of:  the Renaissance (started in Tuscany), astronomy, University, and the Vitruvian Man.

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