Italy

Italy

Italy is a large country in Southern Europe. Together with Greece, it is acknowledged as the birthplace of Western culture. Not surprisingly, it is also home to the greatest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the world. High art and monuments are to be found everywhere around the country. It is also famous worldwide for its delicious cuisine, its trendy fashions, luxury sports cars and motorcycles, diverse regional cultures and dialects, as well as for its many beautiful coasts, alpine lakes and mountains.

                            Colosseum

It was built by the Emperor Vespasian, was the venue for the games which took place in the ancient Rome. Very famous were the gladiator fights, usually slaves or prisoners of war, trained with the aim of ferociously and bravely fighting in order to regain their freedom. 

Saint Peter's Basilica

Saint Peter's square is the greatest piazza in Rome. In Roman time it was the place where the Circus of Nero stood, and where in 65 was crucified St. Peter. After 250 years he was buried in the point where Costantine built the first Basilica in 326. Notice that up to that epoch Rome was of pagan faith and the bodies were buried in the catacombs outside the walls of the city, and only after the edict of Milan in 313 Costantine and Licinius allowed the Christians to freely observe their religion and to bury the bodies inside the city boundaries that's why St. Peter was buried in the homonymous area more than 250 years later.

Tower of Pisa

The belltower in Piazza del Duomo is known worldwide as the 'leaning tower' and it is undoubtedly the symbol of Pisa. Work began in 1173 and was interrupted due to subsidence, which is the reason for the inclination. Work began again in 1275 and the tower was completed in the mid-fourteenth century. 294 steps lead to the top of the tower, where Galileo Galilei carried out experiments on the force of gravity. Even todayPisa is a cultural city and home to the prestigious university 'Scuola Normale Superiore'.