ItalyTourists come to Italy because

it is rich in art, architecture and history. There are any differents

but the cultural eritich unifies Italy. The Belpaese offers excellent food and wine,

beautiful landescape, ideal climate and a wide choise of

accomodation. Tourists can visit art cities, try their hands at

pottery or blaning glass, learn italian, look after their body and

soul in the spas and do wide variety of sport activities.

The northest Italy is an anchanting area to explore thanks to the variety of actactions and resorts it offers. The landescape is caraterized by snowcapped dolomites and modern skiing

resorts.

• Basilica di San Marco is a beautiful church located in Venice which was built in byzantine style.

• Palazzo Ducale is a majestic building located in Venice whicj is masterpiece of Venetian Ghotic architecture.

• Arena di Verona is a splendid anphitheater in Verona, the second biggest Roman amphitheater in the world.

Cappella degli Scrovegni is a spendid church situated in Padua which offers frescoes by Giotto.

Castelvecchio is an impressive castle located in Verona which is daiting back to the 14th century.

The northwest offers different beautiful sight: the high peaks of the Alps, habitat of rare flora and fauna, the low-lying areas

of the Padana Plain and the undulating shoreline of the Mediterranean See.

• Duomo di Milano is the giant cathedral in the centre of Milan which is considered one of the largest gothic churches in the world.

• Mole Antonelliana is a famous building located in Turin which is the equivalent of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

• Certosa is a charming monastery in Pavia which includes a richly decorated church with a magnificent Renaissance facade.

The regions in central Italy are popular destinations because they offer a wide range of beautiful landescape and are dotted with ancent towns rich in culture and history with magnificent

churches, castles, towers and palaces.•Tuscany is dominated by the city of Florence, considered the cradle of Renaissance art and culture, with outstanding palaces and museums. This area includes:

•Pisa with leaning tower famous in the world.

•Siena with Piazza del Campo is one of Europe’s greates medieval squares.

•Florence : Florence's most famous square is Piazza della Signoria, the heart of the historic center and a free open-air sculpture exhibit. The Loggia della Signoria holds some important statues including a copy of Michelangelo’s David. The piazza has been Florence's political center since the middle ages and Florence's town hall, the medieval Palazzo Vecchio, sits on the piazza. The palazzo contains elaborately decorated public rooms and private apartments that can be visited . Around the piazza are cafes and restaurants.

Umbria,called the green heart of Italy, boasts a gentle pasoral countryside and picturesque medieval hilltowns among wich Perugia, Assisi, Orvieto and Gubbio

•Assisi with Basilica di San Francesco wich offers beautiful frescoes by Giotto

•Perugia boasts the beautiful Fontana Maggiore stands in the main square. This 13th C fountain contains reliefs by Nicola and Giovanni Pisano.

•Orvieto houses the Orvieto Cathedral is one of the city's top tourist destinations. Completed in the late 13th C, the building is architecturally significant, with beautiful paintings on the exterior walls.

•Gubbio offers consuls palace which was built by Gattapone and is considered one of the finest Gothic palaces in Umbria.

Visitors to southern Italy are surprised by the rich heritage of remains houses and an amphiteatheatre that survived from the eruption of both of Vesuvius in 79 a.d.

• Museo archeologico Nazionale is a famous museum located in Naples which home to remains of Pompei.

• A trullo is a simple dry-stone-walled building with a domed roof topped by a cone located in Apulia. They are dotted around the green Valle d'Itria, and in Alberobello the town's large clusters of white-washed trulli create an unusual and memorable scene.

• Mount Vesuvius is the classic symbol of the magic Neapolitan landscape overlooking the stunning sea of this beloved and dreamt peace of gulf, is one of the smallest active volcanoes in the world.

Sardinia is located to the west of Italy. It is surrounded by Mediterranean sea. The region enjoyces a mediterranean climate with hot but windy summers and mild winters. The

landescape is characterized by a beautiful and varied coastline and an unspoilt sea. In the north the coastline is rocky and in the south is low and sandy the principal are

Maddalena and the Costa Smeralda.In the center there are any majestic mountains souch as the monti di Punta La Marmora and Bruncu Spina.

• Nuraghe are prehisoric cone structures daiting back 1200 to 900 b.c