Italy. Top 10 curiosities

Top 10 Italian Curiosities Project: “EUROPEAN SCHOOLS WITHOUT STEREOTYPES PROMOTING EUROPEAN INTERCULTURALITY”

PROJECT FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION „European schools without stereotypes promoting the European inter culturality“ № 2016-1-RO01-KA219-024675

Technological High School Costești, ROMANIA

I.I.S.S. Carlo Maria Carafa Mazzarino, ITALIA

Sule Muzaffer Buyuk Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School, Manavgat, TURCIA Vocational School of Tourism “Mihalaki Georgiev” Vidin, BULGARIA

Coordinator project-Mrs. Drăguț Violeta Technological High School Costești, Romania Coordinators-Mrs. Mandzhukova Evlogiya, Vocational School of Tourism “Mihalaki Georgiev”-Vidin, Bulgaria Mrs. Anna Maria Lo Bue, I.I.S.S. "Carlo Maria Carafa" Mazzarino, Italy Mr. Onur Arslan, Sule Muzaffer Buyuk Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School, Manavgat, Turkey

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In Italy there are the only 3 active volcanoes of Europe: Stromboli, Etna and Vesuvio.

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The smallest state in the world is the Vatican with an area of 0.44 km².

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Italy is the fourth most visited country in the world.

4 Italy is the only state in the world that contains two other states, namely: San Marino and the Vatican.

Italy has 50 sites declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO. It is the highest number in the world.

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Every day in Rome tourists throw around â‚Ź 3,000 into the Trevi Fountain.

7 The Italian population is the third oldest in the world, after Japan and Germany.

8 The Unicredit tower (in Milan) is the tallest skyscraper in

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The river Aril (in the province of Verona), with its length of 175m, is the shortest river, not only in Italy, but in the world.

10 The narrowest house in the world "casa du Currivu" is in the province of Palermo. The word "currivu" in Sicilian means "for spite" and just for spite against a neighbor, a gentleman of the country who had decided to build a large house as a normal dwelling, but he was hampered by a neighbor who did not want his view to be ruined. After asking advice to a lawyer, the owner realized that there were no legal conditions for building a house of habitable size in that spot, but to avoid to yield to the hated neighbor he decided to finance the construction of a house as large as 100 cm, hence the

Authors: -Marika Palme -Laura D’Amico -Anja Denise Drago

references:

• https://www.skyscanner.it/notizie/le-10-nazioni-piu-piccole-deuropa • http://lanuovaprovincia.it/attualita/san-marino-e-il-vaticano-gli-stati-d al-cuore-italiano / • http://www.unesco.it/it/PatrimonioMondiale/Index • https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre_Unicredit • https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aril • http://www.meteoweb.eu/2015/01/casa-du-currivu-labitazione-piccolamondo-esiste-si-trova-in-sicilia/378969 /