2009/05/15

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2009/05/14

The biggest city

FLORENCE

BOBOLI GARDENS

The Boboli Gardens, in Italian “Giardino di Boboli”, form a famous park in Florence, Italy, that is home to a distinguished collection of sculptures dating from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, with some Roman antiquities.



SANTA MARIA DEL FIORE

De Santa Maria del Fiore of kortweg de Duomo (dom) is de kathedrale basiliek en het dominerende symbool van de Italiaanse stad Florence, in het Italiaans Firenze genoemd. Het is de op drie na grootste kathedraal van Europa. De Santa Maria del Fiore staat midden in het historische centrum van Florence. Ernaast staat de klokkentoren, de Campanile genaamd, en het Baptisterium.





2009/05/12

The biggest city

MILAN


THE MONUMENTS OF MILAN ARE:



MILAN CATHEDRAL
Milan Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Milano) is the cathedral church of Milan in Lombardy, northern Italy. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Milan, currently Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi.
SFORZA CASTLE
Sforza Castle is a castle in Milan, Italy that now houses several of the city's museum and art gallery collections.
The original construction on the site began in the 14th century. In 1450, Francesco Sforza began reconstruction of the castle, and it was further modified by later generations.
PORTA GARIBALDI
Porta Garibaldi, already Comasina Gate, was erected when the Bastioni lost defensive importance, by James Moraglia. On 22 March 1848 was the second to be conquered by the insurgents after Porta Tosa.






The biggest city

VENICE

THE MONUMENTS OF VENICE ARE:

THE GONDOLA


The gondola is a traditional Venetian rowing boat. Gondolas were for centuries the chief means of transportation within Venice and still have a role in public transport, serving as traghetti (ferries) over the Grand Canal. Their primary role, however, is to carry tourists on rides at established prices.



THE ACCADEMIA


The Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th century art in Venice, northern Italy. Situated on the south bank of the Grand Canal, it gives its name to one of the three bridges across the canal, the Ponte dell'Accademia, and to the boat landing station for the vaporetto water bus. It was originally created an art school.



DOGE'S PALACE


The Doge's Palace is a gothic palace in Venice. In Italian it is called the Palazzo Ducale di Venezia. The palace was the residence of the Doge of Venice.
Its two most visible facades look towards the Venetian Lagoon and St Mark's Square, or rather the Piazzetta. The use of arcading in the lower stories produces an interesting "gravity-defying" effect. There is also effective use of colour contrasts





THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS

The Bridge of Sighs, is one of many bridges in Venice. The enclosed bridge is made of white limestone and has windows with stone bars. It passes over the Rio di Palazzo and connects the old prisons to the interrogation rooms in the Doge's Palace. It was designed by Antoni Contino (whose uncle Antonio da Ponte had designed the Rialto Bridge), and built in 1602.



ST. MARK'S SQUARE



St. Mark's Square is really the heart of Venice, mostly because of its location on the banks of the grand canal, and because of the great number of beautiful, historical monuments located there. Politically and culturally, St. Mark's Square has always been a very important and strategical area in Venice.




RIALTO BRIDGE


Rialto is an area of the San Polo sestiere of Venice, Italy, known for its markets and for the Rialto Bridge.
The Rialto became an important district in 1097, when Venice's market moved there, and in the following century a boat bridge was set up across the Grand Canal providing access to it. This was soon replaced by the Rialto Bridge.

The biggest city

ROME
ROME IS THE CAPITAL CITY OF ITALY.



THE MONUMENTS OF ROME ARE:


COLOSSEUM
The Colosseum or Roman Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium, Italian Anfiteatro Flavio or Colosseo), is an elliptical amphitheatre in the center of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire. It is one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and Roman engineering.


TREVI FOUNTAIN
The Trevi Fountain (Italian: Fontana di Trevi) is a fountain in the Trevi rione in Rome, Italy. Standing 25.9 meters (85 feet) high and 19.8 meters (65 feet) wide, it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city.



SAINT PETER'S
Saint Peter's Square (Italian: Piazza San Pietro) is located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the papal enclave within Rome (the Piazza borders to the East the rione of Borgo).

2009/05/09

Famous people

ZUCCHERO

Adelmo Fornaciari (born September 25, 1955), more commonly known by his stage name
Zucchero Fornaciari, is an Italian rock singer. His music is largely inspired by gospel, blues and rock music, and alternates between ballads and more rhythmic His musical career began in 1970, boogie-like pieces the 1988 album Blue's became the highest selling album in Italian history, and made Zucchero a household name in Italy, and the rest of Europe.

Famous people

LAURA PAUSINI


Laura Pausini (born May 16, 1974) is an Italian pop singer, popular in several European, Latin American, and Middle Eastern countries, famed for her powerful voice, her romantic adult contemporary ballads and love songs. She is fluent in several languages and has recorded songs in Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, English and French. At the 2006 Grammy Awards, Pausini won Best Latin Pop Album for Escucha.


Famous people

FABIO CANNAVARO




Fabio Cannavaro, Cavaliere Ufficiale OMRI (born September 13, 1973 in Naples, Italy) is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer. Currently he is the captain of the Italian national football team and plays at club level for Real Madrid.
During his career Cannavaro has earned world wide prominence, winning many personal accolades. For example he was the first ever defender to win FIFA World Player of the Year. He was also selected in the FIFPro World XI squad twice, during 2005–06 and 2006–07.

Before moving to Real Madrid in Spain, Cannavaro played most of his club career in the Italian Serie A league.

Famous people

RITA LEVI MONTALCINI

Rita Levi-Montalcini (Turin, 22 April 1909) it is a scientist and Italian M.P.. She has been honored some Nobel prize for the medicine in 1986 and named life M.P. in 2001 from the president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. She is national social of the academy of the Linceis for the class of the physical sciences.


Famous people


CARLO RUBBIA


In 1984 it receives, together with the Dutch Simon van der Meer, the Nobel prize for the physics for his discoveries.
Its searches cover many aspects of the physics of the elementary particles in which it is extremely active. In the years after the Nobel it starts to interest in the energetic problems and it studies a fission sure reactor in which the neutrons of the chain reaction they are produced through an accelerator of particles. The reactor stays however to the stadium of project.
he is also dealt with cosmic neutrinos, of the stability of the proton, of checked nuclear fusion; he has conceived a motor (the project 242) that using only 2,5 kg of americio 242 can bring a spaceship up to Mars in once very smaller of the actual propellers. Currently interest him in the problem of the dark subject.
The experiment from him proposed, WARP (Wimp ARgon Programme), proposes him to reveal the presence of dark subject in the form of WIMP (Massive Weakly Interacting Particles).
Currently to Spain moves for building some thermal solar plants that aim to replace the actual electric plants.
He has accepted the invitation of the ex-minister of the environment Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio to return to work in Italy in the development of the renewable energetic sources.

Famous people

SOPHIA LOREN




The famous Italian diva, September 20th 1934 been born in Rome but grown to Pozzuoli, next to Naples, before breaking down in the world of the cinema she has undertaken all the classical roads of whom tries the scaling to the success. It participates in contests of beauty, performance in the fotoromanzis and in small cinema parts with the pseudonym of Sofia Lazzaro.
On the set of "Africa sotto i mari" (Giovanni Roccardi 1952) she is noticed by Charles Ponti, her future husband, that proposes her a seven year-old contract.
It begins so a cinema career that she sees her to recite in parts of canter on the first ones, as for instance in "Carosello Napoletano" (1953) of Ettore Giannini, "L’oro di Napoli" (1954) of Vittorio De Sica and "La bella mugnaia" (1955) of Mario Camerini, and then to Hollywood beside star as Cary Grant, Marlon Brando, William Holden and Clark Gable.

Famous people

ALBERTO SORDI





The national Albertone, one of the most popular actors in the Italian cinema, June 15th 1920 was born in Rome, in the heart of Trastevere, from Pietro Sordi manager of orchestra and concertista near the theatre of the work in Rome and Maria Righetti, teacher. During his long lasting career has recited in around 150 films. Its artistic adventure starts with some popular broadcast programs and working as doppiatore.
he begins to already work in the cinema to 17. Small, dwarfish parts to the beginning, for then to always conquer a great space in the Italian cinema scene of the years '50. And' with Fred Fellini and his "Lo sceicco bianco" that it begins the true cinema career of the national Albertone. His films and his thousand interpretations. justly you remember as scenes of life of an Italian as many they have been worth him the affection, the admiration and an endless respect from million of Italian through over sixty years of extraordinary career.
It disappears to the 82 year-old age February 25 th 2003 in his villa in Rome, after a serious illness lasted six months.