Italy Italy is a beautiful republic with a deep cultural background. Italy has a diverse historical background that left us with beautiful architecture, paintings and music. The long history of Italy’s great cities, among the most beautiful in the world, have fostered a determined spirit of independent vitality among their citizens, helping them escape the industrial revolution and changes taking place around them (Scarth). LOCATION: Italy is a peninsula, surrounded on thee sides with …showed first 75 words of 2477 total…

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