ITALY

Alvaro Cuji, Cesar Paltan, Jesica Quinde e Isabel Yuquilima

Universidad Politecnica Salesiana

Traditional celebrations in Italy

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Italy Flag

Carnival of Venice
Ferragosto or figure of the Befana
Eve
Palio di Siena
The Giubiana
St. Agatha
Easter
Liberation of Italy
Republic Day

Christmas in Italy
Befana
I La Befana is a typical figure of folklore in some parts of Italy.
I She delivers gifts at Christmas.
I La Befana visits the children the night before Epiphany (January 6) to fill
the socks.
I Children if they have been good with candies and chocolates, however if
they are bad ones filled with coal.
I La Befana is described as an old woman flying on a broom.
Geographic location of Italy, Europe
I The Italian or Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, part of the
European Union.
I Its territory consists of a peninsula and two large islands in the
Mediterranean Sea: Sicily and Sardinia.
I To the north is bordered by Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland,
Austria and Slovenia.
I The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are
fundamental within the Italian territory.
Geographical Location

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Innsbruck

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Mur

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Graz
AUSTRIA
Klagenfurt
Villach
a
Drav Maribor
Tarviso

Balatan

Bolzano
Tirano

HUNGARY

Danube

Lake
Geneva

Geneva

12

r
Mu

Bern Lucerne
SWITZERLAND
Laussane
e
Rhin

Panettone

Kaposvar Subotica
Pecs

Adig

SLOVENIA Sa
Sondrio Adda
va
Belluno
Drav
Trento
a
Udine Gorizia Ljubljana Zagreb
Aosta
Como
Chambery
Pordenone
SERBIA
Varese
Osijek
Bergamo
Treviso
CROATIA
Trieste
Vicenza
Novara
Danube
Karlovac
Milan Brescia
Rijeka
Vercelli
Venece
Verona Padova
Turin
Cremona
Gu l f o f
Pavia
Po Mantova
Prijedor
Rovigo Ve ni c e
Piacenza
Asti
Alessandria
Parma
FRANCE
Ferrara
Pula
Banja
Tuzla
Modena
Reggio
Luka
Cuneo
Bologna
Genoa
Savona
Ravenna
BOSNIA AND
nell'Emilia
44
44
HERZEGOVINA
Forli
Rimini
Massa
Zadar
Sarajevo
La Spezia
Lucca Pistoia
Imperia
Nice
Pesaro
Prato
SAN
MONACO
Cannes
MARINO
Pisa
Florence
Ancona
Split
Livorno
Arno
Ligurian
Arezzo
Mostar
Sea
Macerata
Siena
Perugia
Ploce
MONTENEGRO
Ascoli Piceno
Corsica
CROATIA
Grosseto
(FR.)
ITALY
Dubrovnik Podgorica
Bastia Elba
Teramo
Adriatic
Terni
Sea
L'Aquila Pescara
Viterbo
Rieti
Chieti
Bar
VATICAN
CITY
Ajaccio
Rome
Frosinone
Campobasso
LatinaIsernia
Foggia Barletta
Bonifacio
Benevento Andria Bari
Caserta
Olbia
Sassari
Avellino Potenza
Brindisi
Strait
Naples
Taranto
Matera
of
Salerno
Otranto
Nuoro
Lecce
40
40
Ty r r h e n i a n S e a
Otranto
Golfo di
Oristano
Ta r a n t o
cin
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Tiber

Ta
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Nativity Scene in Italy

Sardinia
Cagliari

Cosenza
Catanzaro

Mediterranean Sea

Italy

Palermo

Trapani

International Boundary
National Capital

Strait
of
Sicily

Major Cities

Rivers
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0

ALGERIA 8

50

Reggio di Calabria

Enna
CaltanissettaCatania
Siracusa
Ragusa

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TUNISIA

100 Kilometers
50

Messina

Pantelleria

Road
36

Agrigento

Ionian
Sea

Sosah

Isole
Pelagie

100 Miles

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Universidad Polit
ecnica Salesiana

MALTA

Valletta
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