Pisa‚ Italy Pisa is a city in Central Italy‚ Tuscany and is known worldwide for its leaning bell tower. One of the most visited places in this beautiful town is the Field of Miracles‚ or also known as Piazza dei Miracoli where historical buildings‚ museums and more than 20 historical churches are located. The Leaning Tower of Pisa‚ in Italy known as Torre de Pisa is the world’s most famous architectural mistake and was built in 1173-1350. After 800 years‚ the tower still leans but is more stable
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OF ITALY The unification of Italy in the 19th century was one of the most significant events in the history of the peninsula and of Europe as well. Not only did it alter the European balance of power but it also paved the way for the future. Unification was achieved through the interplay of complex factors: ideology‚ war‚ diplomacy‚ personalities and European politics. There were a number of factors that created obstacles in the unification of Italy. The mountainous nature of central Italy created
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In Italy totalitarianism emerged in the shape of Fascism under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. The world ’fascism’ draws its root from the Roman word ’Fascio’ which means a bundle of rods‚ which was once the emblem of the authority of Roman victors. It emerged as a movement in the post World War I period not only to meet the challenges of the international communist movement but also to tackic the various problems which confronted Italy and which the Italian government was not able to tackle
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Italy is a Tier 1 source‚ transit‚ and destination country. Men‚ women‚ and children are trafficked into forced labor and sexual exploitation. Organized crime groups such as the Albanians and Romanians are involved with all aspects of crime including human trafficking. Nigerian women and girls are trafficked into Italy through coercive methods such as debt bondage and even voodoo rituals to gain compliance. An estimated 3‚000 children are active in street prostitution. Men from Africa‚ Asia‚ and
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period of cultural rebirth known as the Renaissance‚ marking the transition from medieval times to modern times. The Renaissance brought new importance to individual expression‚ self-consciousness and worldly experience. The Renaissance man and woman characterized the Renaissance ideals. A renaissance man was a well- educated gentleman who had cultural grace‚ courage and who understood the arts and sciences. On the other hand‚ a Renaissance woman was supposed to marry well‚ be loyal
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PIAZZA ARMERINA‚ SICILY-The view from America is that Europe is collapsing economically. Imagine the view from one of the most beautiful and impoverished regions of Italy‚ a country that embodies the European economic crisis. Welcome to Piazza Armerina‚ a city of 20‚000 in the middle of Sicily. Piazza has small winding streets with picturesque balconies‚ a central plaza with delicious ice cream‚ plentiful coffee shops‚ and a magnificent cathedral. Perched on a hill‚ it features views of rural
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12/0257/1980 COURSE: HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE Introduction The movement to unite Italy into one cultural and political entity was known as the Risorgimento. Giuseppe Mazzini and his leading pupil‚ Giuseppe Garibaldi‚ failed in their attempt to create an Italy united by democracy. Garibaldi‚ supported by his legion of Red Shirts who was mostly young Italian democrats ‚who used the 1848 revolutions as a opportunity for
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Bradley 1 Unification of Italy There were at least two reasons why it was not easy to unify Italy. One of the reasons was internal to Italy while the other was external. The external reason was that there were foreign countries that had interests in the Italian peninsula. It was not simply a matter of getting various Italian states to agree to unify. Instead‚ there were the French and the Austrians to contend with. Both of these powers had interests in Italy and had to be dealt with in
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Unification of Italy Development of Nation-States and Nationalis Introduction ly in 1861. These events can be broken down in five stages: Pre-Revolutionary‚ Revolution Pre-Revolutionary and divide up the territory conquered up by Napoleon. In its negotiations‚ the congress ret Giuseppe Mazzini with a republican form of government. Mazzini brought the campaign for unification into the mainstre Revolutionary anded more rights from their respective government‚ the
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Introduction There is a saying that states ‘one either lives to eat or eats to live’ and Italy as a country is ruled by the former. Italy is a culture that is rich and saturated in their traditions of cooking. They take pride in their food and live by the credo that food is only used if it is fresh‚ local and in season. There has been much debate on what defines Italian food and through research one can see that Italian food is not typical of a specific dish‚ rather that each region offers a new
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