101 Facts about Italy: History - Culture Nature Curiosities

A country everyone believes they already know.Italy's tallest waterfall is a Roman engineering project from 271 BCE. Europe's largest volcano rises 1.9 miles from the seafloor and never breaks the surface. Thirty wild Nebrodi firs are left in the world, every one of them on Sicily. And Italy's coastline has no fixed length: the closer you measure, the longer it gets. 101 facts. Each one on its own page. Start at the front or open the book anywhere. Sorted into six chapters: - Geography & Nature - volcanoes, glaciers, a coastline with no fixed measure- History & Archaeology - Etruscans, Pompeii, Roman concrete- People, Language & Cities - twelve protected languages, Venice, Matera- Art, Music & Inventions - Michelangelo, Vivaldi, the first battery- Food & Drink - pasta, pizza, espresso, Parmigiano- Economy, Records & Everyday Life - machinery, tiles, Ferragosto The dark chapters are in here too. > Checked, not copied. >Includes a country profile, timeline, glossary, and index. Useless knowledge can be many things. Wrong should not be one of them.