Hotel in Italy

Hotel in Italy

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Italy is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within the Italian Peninsula, while Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland.

Italy has been the home of many European cultures, such as the Etruscans and the Romans, and later was the birthplace of the universities and of the movement of the Renaissance, that began in Tuscany and spread all over Europe. Italy's capital Rome was for centuries the center of Western civilization; it also spawned the Baroque movement and seats the Catholic Church. Italy possessed a colonial empire from the second half of the 19th century to the mid 20th century.

The creation of the Kingdom of Italy was the result of the efforts by Italian nationalists and monarchists loyal to the House of Savoy to establish a united kingdom encompassing the entire Italian Peninsula. In the context of 1848 liberal revolutions that swept through Europe an unsuccessful war was declared on Austria. Giuseppe Garibaldi, popular amongst southern Italians, led the Italian republican drive for unification in southern Italy, while the northern Italian monarchy of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia whose government was led by Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour, had the ambition of establishing a united Italian state under its rule. The kingdom successfully challenged Austrian Empire in the Second Italian War of Independence with the help of Napoleon III, liberating the Lombardy-Venetia. In 1866 Victor Emmanuel II aligned the kingdom to Prussia during the Austro-Prussian War waging the Third Italian War of Independence which allowed Italy to annex Venice. In 1870, as France during the disastrous Franco-Prussian War abandoned its positions in Rome, Italy rushed to fill the power gap by taking over the Papal State from French sovereignty. Italian unification finally was achieved, and shortly afterwards Italy's capital was moved to Rome.

As Northern Italy was industrialized and modernized, the south became overcrowded, forcing millions of people to emigrate for a better life abroad. The Sardinian Statuto Albertino of 1848, extended to the whole Kingdom of Italy in 1861, provided for basic freedoms, but the electoral laws excluded the non-propertied and uneducated classes from voting.

Italy occupies a long, boot-shaped peninsula, surrounded on the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea and on the east by the Adriatic Sea. It is bounded by France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia to the north. The Apennine Mountains form the peninsula's backbone; the Alps form its northern boundary. The largest of its northern lakes is Garda (143 sq mi; 370 km²);in the center is Campotosto lake the Po, its principal river, flows from the Alps on Italy's western border and crosses the great Padan plain to the Adriatic Sea. Several islands form part of Italy; the largest are Sicily and Sardinia. There are several active volcanoes in Italy: Etna, the largest active volcano in Europe; Vulcano; Stromboli; and Vesuvius, the only active volcano on the mainland of Europe.

The Cottian Alps (French: Alpes Cottiennes; Italian: Alpi Cozie) are a mountain range in the south western part of the Alps. They form the border between France (Hautes-Alpes and Savoie) and Italy (Piedmont). The Maddalena Pass separates them from the Maritime Alps; the Col du Mont Cenis separates them from the Graian Alps; the Col du Galibier separates them from the Dauphiné Alps. The Fréjus Road Tunnel and Fréjus Rail Tunnel between Modane and Susa are important transportation arteries between France (Lyon, Grenoble) and Italy (Turin). The Cottian Alps are drained by the rivers Durance and Arc and their tributaries on the French side; by the Dora Riparia and other tributaries of the Po on the Italian side. The Apennines or Apennine Mountains is a mountain range stretching 1000 km from the north to the south of Italy along its east coast, traversing the entire peninsula, and forming the backbone of the country.

List of islands of Italy

Islands in the Mediterranean ; Aeolian Islands, Lipari, Panarea, Salina, Stromboli, Vulcano, Aegadian Islands, Favignana, Levanzo, Marettimo, Asinara, Bergeggi, Ferdinandea, Flegrean Islands, Capri, Ischia, Nisida, Vivara, Procida, Gallinara, Maddalena archipelago, Budelli, Caprera, La Maddalena, Santa Maria, Santo Stefano, Spargi, Razzoli, Molara, Pelagian Islands, Lampedusa, Lampione, Linosa, Pantelleria, Palmaria, Pontine Islands, Gavi, Palmarola, Ponza, Santo Stefano, Ventotene, Zannone, Sant'Antioco, San Pietro, Sardinia, Sicily, Tavolara, Tinetto, Tino, Sant'Andrea, Tuscan Archipelago, Capraia, Elba, Giannutri, Giglio, Gorgona, Montecristo, Pianosa, Tremiti, Caprara, San Domino, San Nicola, Cretaccio, Pianosa, Ustica, Venetian Lagoon, Burano, Giudecca, Lido, Pellestrina, Murano, Isola di San Michele, Torcello

Islands in lakes ; Lago di Bolsena, Isola Bisentina, Isola Martana, Lago di Como, Isola Comacina, Lago di Garda, Isola del Garda, Isola di San Biagio, Isola dell'Olivo, Isola del Sogno, Isola del Trimelone, Lago d'Iseo, Montisola, Lago Maggiore, Isole Borromee, Isola Bella, Isola Madre, Scoglio della Malgera, Isola dei Pescatori (or Isola Superiore), Isolino di San Giovanni, Castelli di Cannero, Isolino Partegora, Lago d'Orta, Isola San Giulio, Lago Trasimeno, Isola Polvese, Isola Maggiore, Isola Minore