Italy
…a people who “are capable of losing wars as though they were soccer games, and soccer games as though they were wars.”
Introduction
The question I’m asked most often is “which country is your favorite?” As a tour guide the question is easy to answer: Italy. History, art, architecture, food, wine, beaches, mountains – no matter what your interests are, Italy satisfies.
Just the Facts
- Dimensions: About 800 miles long, 100 miles wide
- Area: 116,000 square miles (about the size of Arizona)
- Population: 60 million people
- Capital: Rome
- Type of Government: Parliamentary Republic
- Chief of State: President Sergio Mattarella (January 2015)
- Head of Government: Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte (June 2018)
- Language: Italian
- Money: Euro (€), here pronounced “eh-UH-row”
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