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Biggest city: Rome
Population: 2,837,332 million
Area: 1287,37 km²
There are 7915 cities in our country.

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According to ISTAT data on the national population balance, as of December 31, 2019, were regularly resident in Italy 5,039,637 foreign citizens, equivalent to 8.45% of the total resident population (59,641,488 individuals), practically unchanged compared to the previous year.

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Italy has won a lot of awards and competitions this year:

The Måneskins have won Eurovision 2021

Luca's international success

The Italian national team won the 2020 European Championships

Berrettini in the final at Wimbledon 2021

The national basketball team qualifies for the 2021 Olympics

The National Softball team wins the 2021 European Championships

Laura Pausini won a Golden Globe

The medals of Italy at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics (10 gold medals and 40 in all)

The women's volleyball team wins team wins the 2021 European Championships

The men's national volleyball team wins the 2021 European Championships,

Italy's medals at the Paralympics (14 gold medals and 69 in all)

Professor Giorgio Parisi won the nobel prize for physics

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- Italy has the most UNECO sites in the world

From Mount Etna to the trulli of Alberobello, to Rome's Colosseum, Italy is packed with important sights. Still it is a lesser known of the Italy fact that it has 55 world heritage sites.

-The Sistine Chapel welcomes over 20,000 visitors per day

Painted by Michelangelo in 1512, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican City is one of the most famous monuments in the world. While certainly the most impressive, it's actually just one of a number of fabulous frescoes that decorate the chapel.

-13 of Shakespeare's 38 plays are set in Italy

Romeo and Juliet is set in the city of Verona (you can even visit "Juliet's balcony" for yourself), while Julius Caesar takes place in Rome. Othello and the Merchant of Venice are set in Venice (no surprise there) while Much Ado About Nothing is based in the Sicilian city of Messina. Even though there's no evidence that the Bard spent time in Italy himself, his depictions of the country are surprisingly accurate.

-Tourists throw €1,000,000 into the Trevi Fountain each year

According to myth and legend, tossing a coin into Rome's Trevi Fountain guarantees you'll return to the Eternal City. And it seems everyone likes Rome so much they want to return, because roughly €3,000 of change is thrown in the Trevi Fountain every day. This amount to a staggering million pounds a year. In case you were wondering: the money is collected and donated to charity.

-The country was under a dictatorship for 20 years

The fascist dictator Benito Mussolini ruled over Italy from 1925 until 1945. Before assuming control of the country he served as prime minister for three years, from 1922. Known as Il Duce (which means the leader), Mussolini started out as a radical socialist but aligned himself with Adolf Hitler in the lead up to World War II. He was killed in 1945 by partisan troops.

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What do the colors of the Italian flag represent?

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What do the colors of the Italian flag represent?

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The Italian flag represents a variant of the flag of the French Revolution in which the green was replaced with the blue that means equality and freedom, based on a Masonic symbolism. There are different meanings attributed to the colors of the flag: according to a first reading, supported in several writings also by Carducci and Pascoli, the green recalls the meadows and the Mediterranean maquis, The white snow and the red is a tribute to the soldiers who died during the various wars that involved the country.

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The Italian island heritage consists of over 800 islands, of which only about eighty are inhabited, including the two largest islands of the Mediterranean Sea: Sicily and Sardinia