ITALY ATTRACTION

Summary:

1) Introduction.
2) Map and Flag.
3) Borders.
4) Landlocked states.
5) Main Cities.
6) Relief.
7) Cause for tourism.

1) INTRODUCTION:

Italy is a country of Southern Europe, member of the European Union. In Italian the country is called Italia.

Capital: Rome.
Population (2016): 60.627 million inhabitants.
Gross Domestic Product - GDP (2016): $ 1.859 trillion.
Official language: Italian.
Area: 301,338 km^2.
Currency: Euro.

2) MAP AND FLAG:

ITALY MAP

ROME,ITALY

ITALY FLAG

3) BORDERS:

Italy is bordered to the north by Switzerland and Austria, to the east by Slovenia and the Adriatic Sea, to the south by the Ionian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, to the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Ligurian Sea , the Mediterranean, and north-west by France.

4) LANDLOCKED STATES:

Two small independent states are landlocked in the territory: the Republic of San Marino, located on the border of Emilia-Romagna and Marche, and the Vatican City, on the right bank of the Tiber, in the Roman capital.

5) MAIN CITIES:

The capital city of Italy is Rome where the Roman Empire started.Other cities in Italy are Milan, Turin, Florence, Genoa, Naples, Pisa, Palermo, Bologna, Parma and Venice. The country has a number of islands, the biggest of which are Sicily and Sardinia, which can be reached by ship or aircraft.

6) RELIEF:

The total area of the country is 301,323 km². Italy has the characteristic shape of a boot that reaches into the heart of the Mediterranean, which it divides into two parts: an eastern basin and a western basin. Its maximum length is 1,360 km. To the north, the maximum width is about 600 km, while in the peninsula it varies between 140 km and 240 km.

7) ATTRACTION:

Beyond the Show something similar happens. Venice is a city that every year 12 million tourists arrive, according to official data, although other organizations raise this figure to 30 million, counting those who come with organized trips, spend a few hours and leave. This figure would mean an average of 82,000 visitors each day, for the 52,000 inhabitants of the historic center. At a pharmacy in Campo San Bartolomeo years ago they installed an accountant to keep track of the countdown, since annually about a thousand Venetians opt for exile. The massive tourist exploitation has accelerated an exodus, for which the population has been left in less than one third of the 174,000 residents it came to have in 1951.

Venice was then a cultural center within the reach of a few. That year they went through the red carpet of their film festival Akira Kurosawa, Jean Renoir or Vivian Leigh, stars who stepped on the city, climbed the gondolas and left money, always remember their merchants. Today the "celebrities" are still coming, although they have changed the paparazzi rank for Instagram. The problem is that they lock themselves in their luxury hotels and have little contact with those who could have sold them a bouquet of flowers or served a coffee. In return, these have to do business with customers of AirBnb, which has the first European city in Venice by volume of revenue and has doubled its apartments in the last five years, according to data compiled by the citizen committee Italia Nostra. This group, which looks after the Italian heritage, has sent a letter to Unesco for Venice to be added to its list of endangered cities.

It will be because of the channels and the game of illusions that they generate, that Venice has become a distorted mirror of a situation that is repeated throughout the country. According to the global report of the World Tourism Organization of 2018, Italy is fifth in the ranking of foreign tourists, with 58 million. But it does not only happen in Venice. Strolling through the streets of Rome, Florence or, above all, the small towns that appear in the guides with the qualification of "essentials" can end with the most hard-working tourist. It is surprising that Spain welcomes many more foreigners -82 million-and the result does not seem so overwhelming. Antonio Pezzano, coordinator of the European Destinations of Excellence program (EDEN) -dependent of the European Commission-, responds that this is because "in Spain, tourism is very concentrated in the islands, beaches and Barcelona as a great city; while in Italy it is distributed throughout the territory ». In addition, 80% of nationals do not cross borders during their vacations.

It is true that in 2018 the most picturesque Italian villages received 23 million foreigners. Who does not have a brother-in-law who has told him that he has been to the Cinque Terre, the Amalfi Coast, Capri or Sardinia and has loved it? Add to the list of fashionable places the coasts of Puglia or Matera, which this year is the European City of Culture. What they may not tell you are the queues they had to wait or the plausible risk of entering a restaurant, since it seems impossible to eat badly in this country and find the exception to the rule. In all these places, visitors multiply the local population not only in the summer months, but throughout the year. That's why a group called Slow Tourism emerged, which is dedicated to putting quality stamps on the accommodations that promote a model for which the guest does not run, makes a collection of selfies and shoots off. "The tourism that we are currently seeing puts at risk the good brand that Italy has always had, which is why we are betting on the future in improving the hotel and accommodation of the country," says its president, Luciano Lauteri.

The landscapes are contrasted but the reliefs predominate. Indeed, plateaus and hills occupy 41% of the territory and the mountains 35%, against 23% for the plains. The latter are, for the most part, small and fragmented, like the often inhospitable coastal plains.

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Illustration Credits : Muhammad Sharjeel

ITALY ATTRACTION