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GENERAL INFO
Italy, is
the ideal destination for your travel.
Here are
some useful tips to completely enjoy your staying in my country.
CAPITAL
CITY: ROME
POPULATION:
57.534.088
MAIN CITIES:
Rome, Naples, Turin, Milan
TRANSPORTS:
There is a good 6440 km motorway network that links every place in Italy.
The most important airports are located in Rome (Fiumicino), Milan (Linate
and Malpensa), Venice (Marco Polo), Genoa (Cristoforo Colombo), Palermo
(Punta Raisi), Turin (Caselle) and Naples (Capodichino). All airports are
well linked, by bus or railway service, to the nearest city center or to
the major towns in the surroundings. The Venice Airport is also served
by a motorboat service that drives persons to Venice and other places in
the lagoon. The main ports are in Genoa, Naples,Trieste,Venice, Palermo,Cagliari,
Bari and Brindisi. There is a good boat service to reach Sardinia, Sicily,
smaller Italian Islands, Corsica, Spain,Greece and Tunis from the major
Italian ports.
LANGUAGE:
Italian. There are also some language minorities who speak German, French,
Slovenian and other ones. In “Valle d’Aosta” region the ufficial languages
are Italian and French, in “Trentino Alto Adige”, they are Italian and
German. In many Southern regions there are also Greek, Albanian and Catalan
minorities. Beside that in Italy, every region, province and even every
town has its own dialect. |