What do you know about Italy?

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Lady Ivy

Everything I know about Italy? WARNING: this could take a long time!

Rome is a beautiful place full of exquisite old buildings. The city is covered in fountains and squares. Indeed, one can hardly walk 100 m without running into a square or PIAZZA. Rome is buzzing with tourists, and consequently buzzing with pickpockets. At night Piazza Navona is a thriving night scene. The restaurants there have tables and chairs outside under cover, and they are lit with a soft yellow light. There are music buskers, and a man who has finger pupets which dance to music. There are of course fountains. The surrounding buildings are beautiful, and all the windows have little gardens attatched to them. Depending on which time of year you go the flowers might be in bloom. Red and yellow colours mostly.
In Italy don't expect to see pineapple on the pizzas, the Italians don't like that sort of thing. You will find shop fronts selling slices of pizza, and you can buy it off the street. The pizza is cut into squares and is always hot and delicious. No-one makes pizza like the Italians.
At the Trevi Fountain (Fontana di Trevi) there are men who try to sell people red roses, and they have funny magnet things which they throw up in the air which make a strange metallic noise. The also sell ballons stuffed with flour and with faces, which the men pull into shapes and try to sell you. Don't buy them. You'll regret it. The name Trevi means three roads, because three road converge on the square of the fountain.
The river in Rome is the Tiber, which has a beautiful light blue colour. There is a bridge somewhere where lovers place a lock and throw the key into the river. This is meant to symbolise ever lasting love. It has become quite a fashion.
The Italians are in general crazy drivers. The first time I went to Rome I was quite astonished by the traffic, and I couldn't understand how anyone managed to cross the roads. Then I saw an older Roman lady, just step out into the full on traffic. I thought she was going to be run over, but she just put up her hand to the oncoming traffic and amazingly, they all just screeched to a halt for her. So that's how I learnt to cross the roads.
Rome is full of museums and galleries, but one of my favourites is the Villa Borghese. It is a house that used to belong to the Borghese family, and the walls and ceilings are covered in frescoes. It's rooms contain fine pieces of art, including many statues by Bernini, and also one by Canova. Definitely worth a look.
How can one talk about Italy without mentioning the Vatican? St Peter's is an amazing cathedral, and really it is quite hard to explain it grandeur. From the inside it doesn't seem so big, and people constantly remark about how they thought it was bigger. This is an illusion employed by the designers of the cathedral to use scaling and perspective to make the inside seem smaller and more intimate.
There is no place on Earth where icecream is better or more bountyful than Italy. Although one has to select carefuly to find the best gelato around, almost all of it is better than what you'd find in the US, the UK, or indeed anywhere else. The people in the shops will ask you "con panna?" meaning: with cream? and if you agree they will squirt a generous amount of sweetened, whipped cream on top of your icecream cone.

I know I have only covered Rome here, but as you must see I could go on forever telling you what I know about Italy. So I will stop here and if there is anything extra you would like to know, about any other city or some particular aspect of Italian culture, MESSAGE ME! and I will tell you what I can.

Ciao!

Aimee J

I went to italy in spring 2006,

In italy there are a lot of gelato (ice cream) bar, but you need to choose carefully because some of the bars are just much more expensive than the actual price. i bought a cup of ice cream in florence , it costs me 6 euros!!! big but pretty expensive, then when i went to rome, i got the same amount for only 2.50 euros!

Shopping in milan is great! In my personal opinion, it's one of the greatest shopping spots in europe.

It's better to go in spring time, because then it won't be too cold or too hot!

Be aware of your belonging especially wallet, because there are a lot of thiefs! believe me!

You better not to eat in a restaurant at the gas stations because the pasta, steak or rissoto are terrible! go to a real italian restaurant.. and taste the real delicacy! when i was in venice, i went to this nice restaurant and ordered a pasta with squid ink.. it was delicioussss...

Not everybody can speak english, but italians are pretty nice not like some countries who can speak english but not willing to.

Visit verona, it's a small but very classical city. it gives me the feeling like in a movie set! there's casa de guiletta (i dunno how to spell it) ot juliet's house.. u can take a picture at the infamous juliet's balcony..

Visit vatican on sunday, you'll get to see the pope! yay! it doesn't matter what kind of religion you have, vatican is a must see.. i also send a postcard from vatican's post office

The police especially police woman are more fashionable than the ones in your country! lol.. once i saw a police woman with perfect long curly hair and perfectly tanned skin.

..i can't stop talking now.. btw .. one more thing.. italy is a nice country! go visit there..if u had any chances..

aliasgirl

I'm here for all your questions...I'm Italian! feel free to contact me

I would suggest that you go there and learn yourself. I live in Italy and believe me there is just too much to say about the country to write it all down here..............!

Ciao Bella

wow too much to tell. italy is the greatest. i could go on forever.

Lissie

For everything I know and quite a log of other links check out http://hubpages.com/_yah/hub/Italy-Travel--Information--Tips--Advice

baby girl

italy is a nice place to go to and to live there. italy is funny

memÃ¨

ask me whatever you want...i'm italian!

Jackie W

It would take several lifetimes to learn everything there is to know about Italy. What I do know is that the Italians have the best lifestyle of any country I have visited - the food, the wine, the constant talking can't be beat!

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