The ALPHABET of ITALY

ItALy FrOm A To Z

Art

Michelangelo, Botticelli, Giotto are just a few names of our many Italian artists. Our country is known throughout the world for the wonderful works that can be seen in many cities!

BootsThe shape of our peninsula refers to a boot!

Champions of world Well, there is little to say … enough to remember the night of July 9, when the sky above Berlin was painted of Italian blue!

Dante Alighieri Is a famous author from Florence, his work is world famous! The DIVINE COMEDY is studied in schools! Do you?

 

European Union We are part of the European Union! Just like you!

Ferrari In addition to knowing how to run behind a ball we also run with these wonderful racing cars!

Ischia Is a beautiful city on the sea … where you can see beautiful sunsets

Lemons A unique product! A fruit of our land and our sun

MilanCapital of fashion and represents a major economic centre!

Naples The city of sun, sea and sympathy ..

Olive oilA good product!

Pizza Pasta The images speak for themselves, these two products are the base of good Mediterranean nutrition

Quirinale The headquarters in Rome, of our President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano

Rome The magical capital with all its history fascinates million of tourists

Sun And See These two elements together are Greece and Italy

TricolourOur flag

Leaning Tower The famous tower of Pisa! As we see unlike normal towers this one is lop-sided!

Venice A very romantic city

Wine One of our best products

Not just FOOTBALL

In Italy the most popular sport is football, but there are other sports as skating and ballet that are well known. In our class there are 2 boys and 1 girl who play football: Marilena (Mary) plays football in the Valdarno Team that is in C division, Niccolò plays football in the Forcoli Team and Alessio plays football in the Staffoli Team. Besides there are Gloria, who practices skating in “Polisportiva Bientinese” and who is also a teacher of roller-skating, and Roberta (Roby), that practices ballet in “Istituto d’Arte & Spettacolo”.

 

ITALIAN FOOTBALL:

Women’s football isn’t as popular as men’s football, but it’s a sport which is growing year after year. The best known football teams are: Inter, Milan, Juventus, Fiorentina,… On 9 July 2006 the Italian Team won the World Cup vs the French Team: we are still really excited and we are waiting for the European Cup in June! The biggest stadiums are: Olimpico in Rome and San Siro in Milan.

 

ITALIAN DANCING:

In the last years dancing has become very popular in Italy, but we must distinguish television dancing from theatre dancing. The most important theatres in Italy, where there are the best ballet-dancers, are “La Scala” of Milan and “L’Opera” of Rome. The most important names of Italian ballet-dancers are: Carla Fracci, Alessandra Ferri, Raffaele Paganini,… and Roberto Bolle, who is the world’s best dancer at the moment. But ballet is only a part of dancing, because there are many types of dancing, for example today in Italy musicals are also very popular, especially the classics of Broadway (Chorus-Line, Chicago, Cabaret,…), but also the new Italian productions are really successful, in particular because there are lots of talented young boys and girls, while many people that dance on television haven’t got any talent, they are just good-looking.

ITALIAN SKATING:

Do you know roller – skating?

This sport is very beautiful but unfortunately it’s not known enough!

In the world ice – skating, not roller – skating, is very popular!

The most important names of Italian skaters are: Luca Dalisera, Tanya Romano, Andrea Barbieri.. and other young people who are very good at this sport!

Italian skaters are the most competent in the world!!

Generally people don’t think that roller – skating is a difficult sport but the appearances are deceiving! In fact it’s very difficult because the people who practice roller – skating must have many qualities and skills like elegance, technique and a lot of physical training!