„A country, where there is more sunshine in the shadow than in England under a cloudless sky!“

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Basic informationHistory EconomyReligionCulture

Basic information

• Area: 301.338 km²

• Population: 60.626.442

• Two independent states within Italian territory

Language

• Official language: Italian

• Others: French, Ladin, German, Slovenian

• Spoken by 70 million people

Who else speaks Italian?

• San Marino + Vatican City • Switzerland• France• Monaco• Slovenia• Croatia• Beyond Europe: USA, Canada, Argentina,

Brazil, Chile, Venezuela

History

History

• 1870: End of Risorgimento• 1871: Rome= capital• 1876-1915: Massive wave of emigration • 1913: Highest recorded wave of emigration• Reason: poverty among rural population

and overpopulation • Main destinations: America, Belgium,

Germany, France, Switzerland

Economy• Economic bisection

• North: heavily industrialized

• South: mostly dominated by agriculture

Reasons

• Amalgamation of the 3 kingdoms

• -> strong North-South divide in terms of economic growth

• South: Dominated by Mafia

Mafia

• Cosa Nostra: Sicilia

• Camorra: Neapel

• `Ndrangheta: Calabria -> most powerful

• Organized crime ->Goal: material profit

• Seek of power (racketeering+illegal drug market)

Roberto Saviano

• Gomorrah, journey into the realm of the Camorra

• Practices of organized crimes

How does the economic crisis affects Italy?

• 1000 companies give up business

• 3/5 companies need to take out a loan to pay taxes

• Insolvency rate: 5.7% -> 9.5%

• Decline of industrial production of 7%

• 818.000 workplaces destroyed

• More than 1/3 of young people unemployed

European Union

• Founding member

• Before crisis: Pro- European

• After crisis: Increase of mistrust

Religion

• Catholic-orientated

• Especially Islam: getting more and more present

Franziskus I.: New hope?

Described as:

• Easy and moderate

• Touch of internationality

• Opening of the church

• Critized because of his conservative stance

Family

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Piazza

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600 varieties

28 kg per year

VESPA

• 1946• Simple

means of transport

• Timeless design

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Famous people

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Galileo Galilei

• Michelangelo

• Christopher Columbus

• Luciano Pavarotti

• Giuseppe Verdi

• Antonio Vivaldi

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ROME

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VENICE

Thank-you for listening! Grazie

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Sources

• http://italien.costasur.com/de/kultur.html

• http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/euro-krise-italiens-wirtschaft-kaempft-ums-ueberleben-1.1624737

• http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/europaheute/1884521/

• http://europa.eu/about-eu/countries/member-countries/italy/index_de.htm

• http://www.bautz.de/bautzbautz/index.php?option=com_content&id=241:religionen-in-italien&Itemid=62

• http://www.grammatiken.de/italienische-grammatik/italienisch-sprache-sprachgeschichte-romanische-sprache.php

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