Learn about Italy interesting fact, which provides information about Italy real history. Italy is a place with which everyone falls in love. Get Interesting facts about Italy here. Officially Italy is known as Italian Republic, is a country located partly on the European Continent and partly on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. The land known as Italy today has been the cradle of European cultures and peoples, such as the Etruscans and the Romans. Italy history dividend in to different phases the main being the roman era, the middle ages and the unification of Italy in the 19th century. Italy has a rich cultural and historical heritage. Standing as the testimony to the fact are the country’s roman ruins, renaissance palaces and more than 3000 museums, apart from churches and archeological sites dating back to Roman and Greek times.
A few more interesting Italy facts and figures
The national game of Italy is Football.
The national cuisine of Italy is Pasta.
The national bird of Italy is Bluebird.
The Italian Wolf is considered the national animal of Italy.
Italy’s national flower is the Lily.
The official currency of Italy is the euro which replaced the lira.
Interesting Italy facts
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country has Republic government.
Archimedes, one of the most famous mathematicians in the world, was born in Sicily.
Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s most popular play, was set in the backdrop of Verona, Italy.
Amongst the famous personalities that have been born in Italy are Niccolo Machiavelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo Galilei, Antonio Stradivari, Donatello, Fra Angelico, Tintoretto, Caravaggio, Bernini, etc.
Pompeii city of Italy was completely buried after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Bubonic Plague killed one-third of the Italian population in the 14th century.
Italy was the cradle of first, Etruscan and then, Roman civilizations. It also served as the center of the first and largest empire in Europe, North Africa and the near East.
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet were set in Verona, Italy.
Niccolo Machiavelli, the famous political scientist and author of ‘The Prince’ is Italian.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452- 1519) the famous Renaissance painter was also a sculptor, architect, engineer and scientist.
Michelangelo (1475-1564) who painted the Sistine Chapel was also a sculptor and architect.
Spartacus the slave, fought as a gladiator in the Roman Colosseum. He miraculously escaped, then went on to lead a rebellion but was eventually killed in battle in 71BC.
The city of Pompeii was completely buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.
