The Piazza della Signoria in Florence
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Ten facts about Italy that can (sometimes) surprise even Italians:
- Rome lies further north than New York. The Big Apple is about the same height as Naples.
- Italy is the fifth most visited country in the world - after France, Spain, the USA and China.
- More than 75 percent of the Italian landscape consists of hills and mountains. The flat Po Valley in the north is one of the largest lowlands in Europe.
- More than 25 billion espressos are drunk in Italy every year.
- In Tuscany, about 14 million olive trees grow for a population of just under four million. In Puglia, there are about 65 million olive trees for every four million people.
- Sweetness is balm for the soul. Tiramisù translates as "pull me up".
- In Limone sul Garda, people have developed a genetic mutation through centuries of isolation. Because of this, they never get a heart attack.
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- Throughout the world, more Italians live outside Italy than in Italy itself.
- In Italy, the number 17 is said to bring bad luck. Background: If you rearrange the Roman number for 17, i.e. XVII, it looks like the Latin word "vixi". This means "I have lived". So it's a death threat, so to speak.
- An Italian woman from Rome bequeathed ten million euros to her cat. The money was administered by the millionaire's former nurse.
- Why is everyone in Italy actually Dottore?
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