Baltic Travel Agent Specialists
Italy was certainly influenced by many powerful cultures and political forces over time, including the Byzantines, Etruscans and Greeks, but it was the world-changing impact of both the Roman civilization and the Italian Renaissance that contributed most-significantly to its status in the modern world.
Fast Facts
Name Italy 
(long form) Italian Republic
Capital City Rome (pop. 5,208,000) (2006 est.)
Cities (largest by population ) Milan, Naples, Rome, Palermo, Venice, Turin, Bologna
Currency Euro
Holidays Republic Day, June 2; 
January 6 Epiphany Day
varies Easter Sunday
varies Monday after Easter
April 25 Anniversary of Liberation
May 1 Labour Day
June 2 Republic Day
August 15 Assumption Day
November 1 All Saints Day
December 8 Immaculate Conception
December 25 Christmas Day
December 26 St. Stephen's Day
Independence Day March 17, 1861
Language Italian, others
Population 58,103,000 ( 2006 est. )
Religion Catholic
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