The Treasures of Italy highlighted in a presentation for our Comenius project Italian meeting in San Giovanni Valdarno, March 2014

1. Five Senses ComeniusFive Senses Comenius
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2. I tesori d'Italia
The Treasures of Italy
A consistent part of Italian GDP comes from Tourism.
The peninsula has been an important centre of the
Wester civilization for two thousand years. Art, culture
and history are the main assets of our country. The very
same alphabet we all use has its origins in Rome.

3. The Treasures of Italy
Florence, the Cathedral
Rome, the Coliseum
Pisa, the tower

4. Architecture
Italy is the country where most important
architects are from. They are renown for the
daring and innovation in their work. Achitects
of the past were also famous and created great
works as are visible in Rome, Florence, Venice,
Pisa and the rest of Italy.

5. Architecture
Renzo Piano Fuksas
Palladio Brunelleschi

6. Peinture
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Italy was the European centre of Renaissance at
the end of the Middle Age, which recovered,
recreated and revaluated the treasures of art of
ancient Roman and Greek civilizations. Famous
Italian paintings are currently exhibited in the
most important museums.

8. Classical Music
Italian language is the language of opera. Opera
singers and musicians from all over the World
have to learn some Italian for their work. Italian
opera developed from 18th to 20th century.
Even today Italian opera singers and orchestra
directors are highly apreciated.

9. LUCIANO PAVAROTTI

11. Pop MusicPop music is a
flourishing
industry in
Italy. Italian
artists have to
compete with
American and
British ones
as the market
is open and
Italians are
usually fond
of foreign

12. CinemaThe Italian Cinema
industry had its best
times in the 50s and 60s
with neorealism. Now
Italians are present in the
American Film industry
with film directors,
wardrobe assistants, set
designers, special effects
experts, make up artist
etc.

13. Theatre
Theatre in Italy was strongly integrated with
music in the Opera. But plays have also had an
important part, especially in Venetian drama in
the 18th century.

14. Literature
Italian literature is rich in references to social issues,
historic situations and personal introspection. Poetry
also has particularly developed. The country's
reunification process is realtively recent, dating from
the middle of the 19th century. The Italians had been
building an unitarian culture and language since
then.

15. Sculptures
Artists like Michelangelo, Donatello, Bernini,
Canova have left immortal masterpieces behind
that are admired by tourists and art lovers from
everywhere

16. DAVID BY DONATELLO
MEDUSA BY BERNINI

17. Leonardo da Vinci

18. Natural resources
Italy's 8000-kilometre long coastline offers
breathtaking scenery and incredibly romantic
resorts. Its natural beauties have been
celebrated by phylosophers and poets like
Goethe and Shelley. The three active vulcans of
Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna and Mount
Stromboli are unique in Europe. The Alps and
the celebrated Amalfi and Five Lands coasts
offer a greatly varied landscape

19. L'ETNA

20. THE DOLOMITES

21. The Amalfi Coast

22. ARCHEOLOGY
Italy has seen three important ancient civilizations
start, and is uniquely rich in archeologic
findings in Tuscany where Etruscan tombs are
precious treasures rich of hints and information
on everyday life, Latium, where the Romans
have left so many work of art and buildings, and
in the South, where ancient Greeks have seen
the development of Magna Graecia.