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-Italy is one of the most crowded nations in Europe

-Italy is said to have more masterpieces per square mile than any other country in the world.

-When McDonald's opened in 1986 in Rome, food purists outside the restaurant gave away free spaghetti to remind people of their culinary heritage.

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-Grand Canal

-Leaning Tower of Pisa

-Blue Grotto (pictured below)

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-About 60 million.

-Most of Italy has a Mediterranean type of climate, which has cool, rainy winters and hot, dry summers. Winter temperatures along and near the coasts of southern Italy seldom drop to freezing in winter, and summer temperatures often reach 90° F

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-Euro

-Rome, Milan, and Naples are the three major cities.

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-Italian is the official language.

-Christianity (almost 88% belong to the Catholic Church

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Rome

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By 264 B.C., all Italy south of Cisalpine Gaul was under the leadership of Rome. For the next seven centuries, until the barbarian invasions destroyed the western Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th centuries A.D., the history of Italy is largely the history of Rome.