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| GREAT ITALIAN CITIES - Cities of art - the most beautiful in the world |
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| Roma | Firenze | Venezia | Milano | Napoli |
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| ROME |
 Rome is one of the most spreaded and populated European commune (at the fourth post after London, Berlin and Madrid); gathers on its territory the enclave of the city of Vatican, the heart of the Christian Catholicism. The historical centre of the city is a result of an extraneous feature of illustrations of more than 2800 years of history and of an extraneous feature of architectural and urbanistic illustrations, in an unique diffusion and it was included into the List of Humanity Heritage by UNESCO and is one of the most visited city in the world (more than 26,1 million people this year). The churches of Rome are hundreds, those history accompanies the history of the city of 17 centuries, noting the religious, social and artistic story. More than 900 Christian churches (the most of them are catholic but there are also evangelical churches and of other Christian religions), there are also places of cult of other religions, including the greatest mosque of Europe and one of the greatest Italian synagogue and a centre of cultural Buddhism. The bridges of Rome had climbed over the Tiber when Rome had been built on the lft side of the river. The first bridges had been in wood and then had been built in stone. The museums and galleries of Rome keep the most important and valuable heritages of all the humanity thank to their cultural and historical importance. There also hundreds of public fountains, old or newly constructed that immortalize the attention and good relation of Romans with water from times of ancient roman thermae. Also roman palaces are important and majestic, historical dwelling of consequence nobles. Rome is proud of many hectares of green with its numerous villas, parks and protected zones. |
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| FLORENCE |
 Florence is a city of 364.710 citizens of centre-north of Italy. It has been a capital of Italy (1865-1871) after an unification and for a long time over a domination of the family Medici. It is considered as the place of the origin of the Renaissance and is famous in all the world as one of the cradle of art and architecture with all its historical buildings, monuments and rich museums (among them the Gallery of Uffizi, the Gallery of Academy, Bargello and the museums inside of the Palace of Pitti such as the Gallery Palatine and many others) is one the most beautiful and important cities in the world. Florence is often mentioned as the place of the origin of the Renaissance: the city is everywhere characterized by this literary, artistic and scientific prosperities that had taken place in XIV-XVI century. Florence had taken advantages from all these aspects (materially and spiritually), of this great social change and became one of the catalyst with a speed of a thought, one of the most important centres of rebirth of the world culture. The historical centre of Florence is the human heritage nominated by UNESCO in 1982. The center of the city is contained in medieval walls that were built in the 14th century to defend the city after it became famous and important for its economic growth. Staying inside of the wall permitted it thanks to the commercial and economic strength to achieve its maximum magnificenza during the following 2 centuries. |
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| VENICE |
 Venice is a central city of Veneto and of north Italy has 268.993 citizens. It is in catalogues of the human heritage by UNESCO. The city is situated together with numerous small islands inside of the Lagoon of Venice, in the north part of Adriatic sea. The commune is wide and fractionated, here about 10 dialects are spoken. In history named "calmest" or also "dominated" it had been for a thousand years a capital of the Republic of Venice. It is a city with the most high flow of tourists in Italy, more than 29.000.000 people this year. This touristic flow is constant, despite the fact that the highest is in the period of Carnival, it is a period between May and October. The heart of Venice is he square San Marco, the unique square that can be considered square here, other squares are called "camps" or "small squares". The basilica of San Marco is in the centre of the square, colorized in golden and covered with mosaics that tell the history of Venice. Besides Basilica di San Marco the famous are Palazzo Ducale and the bridge Rialto (ponte Rialto). Ponte di Rialto was an unique mode to cross the Gran Channel till 1854, when the bridge Ponte dell'Accademia was built, others - the Arsenal, the Church of Santa Maria della Salute, the basil Santa Maria gloriosa dei Frari, the synagogues of Ghetto. The principal canals of the city are the Grand Canal and the Canal of Giudecca. The first one cuts the city in two making "S" and the second one separates the historical centre from the island Giudecca. |
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| MILAN |
 Milan is the second commune in Italy as per the quantity of citizens (about 1.300.000). The city had been founded by the Celtic people in 600 b.c. who settled down in the middle of the plain after smashed the previous population of Etruscans. The Romans gave the name Mediolanum to it, that meant in Celtic "in the idle of plain". Milano is rich of monuments, churches and other places of a touristic interest that tell the history of the past, of characters, of art, of the culture. The most of palaces and of monuments of Milan to be visited are concentrated in the centre, among them Cathedral (Duomo) and the Castle Sforzesco (Castello Sforzesco). The metro is very efficient to travel between the monuments. The famous monuments of Milan are Duomo, Castello Sforzesco, Villa Reale, Monumental Cemetery (Cimitero Monumentale), Arc of Peace (Arco della Pace), Gallery of Vittorio Emanuele II (La Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II) and Cenacolo Vinciano. |
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| NAPLES |
 Naples is situated in the central position, on the homonymous golf, between the Vesuvius and the area volcanic of Campi Flegrei so-called "between the most celebrated and charm in the world". Its wide artistic and architectural heritage is protected by UNESCO as the world humanity heritage. The first settlement of Partenope was fonde in the second part VIII century b.c. by the Greek colonies; in following fonde as Neapolis between VI and beginning of V century b.c., became one of the principle cities of Magna Grecia. Thanks to historical, artistic and political motives it was among the principle centres up-to-date with other capitals. With a joining to Regno d'Italia in the city, and almost all the south of Italy, there was a decline of social-economic relations, the modern Naples remains among the most great and popolate cities of Italy, containing its historic importance of a cultural, scientific and university centre of international level. In the world there are more than 20 cities called Naples (or Napoli, Napoles, Neapolis, Nuova York, New York). Napoli is one of the cities with a high density of cultural recourses, monuments that tell its historic-antique evolution; the historic centre has about 2.800 years of history; on the territory there are many castles, residences, monumental buildings, historical churches. |
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