Now, let's compare two countries starting with Italy

Italy : 

Most of Italy corresponds to Mediterranean forest biome, although temperate hardwood forest in the valley of the Po and the Apennines, and temperate coniferous forest in the Alps are also present.

transports

Ferrovie dello Stato born in 1905, and is the largest public rail company of Italy. From 2000 , following the European legislation which requires the separation of passenger transport sector , the infrastructure sector , the company was reorganized . For example , Ferrovie dello Stato Spa is the leading company , Trenitalia is the company that is responsible for the transport of cargo and passengers, the Railway Rete Italiana is the company responsible for rail infrastructure and Treno Alta Velocità is the company that has charge of the construction of the high speed network , although there otras.60 currently, high-speed trains are the Italian ETR 500 and the lines that currently exist are: Rome-Florence , Rome , Naples, Turin - Novara, Padua -Venice - Milan and Milan -Bologna Treviglio .

Overall in 2003, there were 16,287 kilometers of railways , 668,721 km of roads , of which 6,487 kilometers were highway and 4,379 miles of pipeline transport . Airports with more air traffic in 2003 was Rome -Fiumicino , Milan -Malpensa , Milan -Linate , Venice and Fontanarossa . Meanwhile, more loading ports were Genoa, Trieste, Taranto , Augusta and Gioia Tauro. In 2005 , 590 of every 1,000 Italians had a car and in most cities 60 % of people were dissatisfied with public transport, why the number of passengers in such transport has declined.

Tourism in Italy

Tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors in the national economy with 43.7 million tourists per year and a total of 42,700 million dollars generated , making it the fourth country in the world with more tourism . Rome, the capital , is one of the most visited destinations in the world , with an average of 7 to 10 million tourists a year . The Coliseum in Rome with four million tourists , is 37 . º world's most visited place . It also benefits the religious and cultural tourism that generates the neighborhood to the Vatican City as visited places as the Vatican Museums and St. Peter 's Basilica .

Other places of interest include Pantheon , Trevi Fountain, Piazza Navona , Roman Forum , 66 Castle Sant'Angelo or the Basilica of St. John Lateran , the last sovereign of Vatican City . The cultural interest of the country is also reflected in all the World Heritage of Unesco, which has , as it is the country that has as many places in the world with 47.

Venice

Pink Beach, Isle of guts, Sardinia

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Italian art

Renaissance painting reached its perfect stage shortly after his pioneering sculpture, that is, during the fifteenth century in Italy and well into the next century in other countries. In general, the fifteenth century is initiation and the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are apogee for the classic renaissance painting. Some of his best-known painters are: Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Marco Palmezzano, Andrea Mantegna, Raphael Sanzio or Cariani. But in Italy, and the decline begins shortly after the mid-sixteenth century by the artists want to imitate the previous works of the great masters. The total decline in different countries corresponds to the eighteenth century following him some restoration at the end of that century.

Gioconda, By leonardo da vinci

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