Lonely Planet Italy provides the basic information on the country Italy. It summarize briefly on this south eastern peninsular country of Europe, Italy. At a glance, Italy is made of sumptuous landscapes of romance, history and culture.
Lonely Planet informs that Italy is made of ruins of the Roman era and Renaissance art; it is adventurous to stay in the tiny medieval hill towns and skiing in the northern Alps; exploring the huge Venician canals and beautiful monumental churches.
Lonely Planet Italy says that Italy is best to visit during the spring months of April-May and autumn in October-November. A seducing picturesque vista with pleasant climactic conditions and few tourists hovering around makes Italy more amazing as a destination spot.
Officially Italy is known as the Italian Republic covering an area of 116,305 square miles. The Capital city is the old and largest city of Rome. With a majority of the population belonging to Roman Catholic, the approximate size is 57,300,000 people.
Weather is varied from north to south. According to the Lonely Planet Italy information, northern part of the country where the Alps border the country of France, Slovenia, Austria and Switzerland, experiences an alpine weather conditions with long and severe winters accompanied by snow falls in the mid-September. Southern part of Italy however, also bears the dry hot weather predominated by the Mediterranean type. Storms develop in spring and the summer is the wettest season.
Lonely Planet Italy describes the geographical featured of the country as dominated by mountains features. Adriatic, Ionian, Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas surrounds the south, eat and western regions. The islands of Elba, Sardinia, Ischia, Capri, the Aeolians and Sicily lie offshore on these seas. The three famous active volcanoes make Italy in the world books namely, Stromboli in the Aeolian Islands, Vesuvius near Naples and Etna on Sicily.
Flora can be broadly classified into evergreen tree dominate: ilex (or evergreen oak), cork and pine. Fauna consists of peculiar species of brown bear or a lynx and even wolves, marmots, chamois and deer, mouflon sheep and wild boars and cats, skies falcons, hawks and golden eagles.
Lonely Planet Italy also narrated that Italy is beautifully decorated with architectural rococo. Italy is abundant in master pieces ranging from Etruscan tombs, Greek temples, and Renaissance fountains. Roman sculptures, Byzantine mosaics, beatific Madonnas from Giotto to Titian, are few among the popular ones.
Italy also homes many and old Cinema and Theater halls. Music is an old passion and occupation among the Italians according to Lonely Planet Italy. Art and Literature once flourished excessively in Italy.
