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Italian cuisine is a Mediterranean cuisine [1] consisting of the ingredients, recipes and cooking techniques developed in Italy since Roman times and later spread around the world together with waves of Italian diaspora. [2] [3] [4] Some of these foods were imported from other cultures.
Demographic features of the population of Italy include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects. At the beginning of 2022, Italy had an estimated population of 58.9 million. Its population density, at 197 inhabitants per square kilometre (510/sq mi), is ...
Pompeii ( / pɒmˈpeɪ ( i )/ pom-PAY- (ee), Latin: [pɔmˈpei̯.iː]) was an ancient city in what is now the comune of Pompei near Naples in the Campania region of Italy. Along with Herculaneum, Stabiae, and many surrounding villas, the city was buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in ...
Ticino, which includes Lugano, the largest Italian-speaking city outside Italy, is the only canton where Italian is predominant. Italian is also used in administration and official documents in Vatican City. Italian is also spoken by a minority in Monaco and France, especially in the southeastern part of the country.
Apulia ( / əˈpuːliə / ə-POO-lee-ə ), also known by its Italian name Puglia ( Italian: [ˈpuʎʎa] ), [3] [a] is a region of Italy, located in the southern peninsular section of the country, bordering the Adriatic Sea to the east, the Strait of Otranto and Ionian Sea to the southeast and the Gulf of Taranto to the south.
ITA Airways. Italia Trasporto Aereo S.p.A. ( pronounced [iˈtaːlia traˈspɔrto aˈɛːreo] ), dba ITA Airways, is the flag carrier of Italy. [7] It is owned by the Government of Italy via the Ministry of Economy and Finance and was founded in 2020 as bankrupt Alitalia 's successor. The airline flies to over 70 scheduled domestic, European ...
The languages of Italy include Italian, which serves as the country's national language, in its standard and regional forms, as well as numerous local and regional languages, most of which, like Italian, belong to the broader Romance group. The majority of languages often labeled as regional are distributed in a continuum across the regions ...