Italian fashion designers

1º- Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani, best known as Valentino was born on May 11, 1932 in Voghera, Lombardy (Italy).
It is an Italian fashion designer, whose brand is one of the most prestigious in the world, also markets fragrances.






2º- Dolce & Gabbana

It´s one of the major Italian fashion brands and was founded by Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana in the 80s, and although at the beginning started with only clothes presses, are increasingly impact their accessories (sunglasses, watches, rings ...) , perfumes or mobile or even restaurants.







3º- Giorgio Armani.


Giorgio Armani was born on July 11, 1934 in Piacenza (Italy). It is an Italian fashion designer known for his menswear.
He is also an avid football and sport in general, being an outspoken supporter of Inter Milan.








4º- Donatella Versace

Donatella Versace was born in Reggio di Calabria (Italy) on May 2, 1955. It is an Italian fashion designer, sister of Gianni Versace.
Currently Donatella will design and holy is the financial brain. During years of transition said the Versace name was on the line, by the evolution of fashion to a more sober taste receding distinctive style of this brand. But the survival of the company is maintained and in recent times the typical exuberance Versace has regained estimate.

5 most beautiful cities in Italy

1. Venice: Is composed of 120 small islands connected by 455 bridges.





2. Rome: Is one of the most beautiful cities of Italy and the world.




3. Florence: Stands out above of the monuments and pieces of art of the Renaissance.


           

4. Pisa: The city of Pisa is best known for its well known Tower and the place where it is located, Piazza dei Miracol




5. Milan: While Rome is the capital of Italy, the city of Milan is considered the economic capital of Italy and the fashion capital.

Famous italian person: Lonardo da Vinci

                                Leonardo da Vinci


Leonardo da Vinci was strictly vegetarian, omnivores called "corpse-eaters".

In the science you can see Leonardo's interest in anatomical studies of the human body, based on autopsies of corpses he did, even though this was prohibited. It is believed that about thirty corpses could dissect with which drew with detail and clarity much of the body's organs.

It took four years to paint the Mona Lisa or Mona Lisa, famous work is in the Louvre in Paris.The painting was used to decorate the bathroom of King Francis I of France at whose court Leonardo spent his last three years. In the area of ​​engineering also complicated machines designed for a multitude of uses such as flying, target failed.

Leonardo Da Vinci took seven years to complete his work entitled "The Last Supper". The figures representing the 12 apostles and Jesus were taken from real people.

Italian Easter

Easter in Italy staged more than 3,000 performances living. From north to south is a happening of processions, religious rites, festivals, shows, sacred, folk traditions and cuisine of first level.
Alghero, Barile, Florence, Sicily, Sulmona, Valmontone, Rome, Naples ... every big city or small town meets every ritual that marks the tradition.
Throughout Holy Week entire cities take to the streets to commemorate the Passion and Resurrection Christ.
During the night of Good Friday, the streets lit by lanterns, are crossed by processions.
On Easter everything is transformed into joy, in a flight of doves, to give thanks to the risen Christ.
The celebration of Easter is linked to the resurgence of nature. His lejanosorígenes are linked to nature thanks to reborn and again offers the delights of the earth.
Today, as then, we find the pins on the table transformed into bread, vegetables, eggs, lamb, essential and characteristic food of this festival in Italy.
The egg is an inevitable element. Easter is the "Easter Egg '" because this food is the symbol of life that is renewed, an omen of fertility.
In the egg and bread crackers are inspired cakes like cake and green Pascualina ancient Genoese dish. Easter cake of cheese is from Umbria, the "crescia di Pasqua" Marchegiana and mozzarella cheese pizza stuffed with egg, pecorino (goat cheese) fresh, flour and olive oil.
La Colomba Easter or Easter dove is a typical Easter candy and the Panettone and Pandoro are associated gartronómicas Christmas traditions.
The legend wants to go back in time the origin of this cake for Easter Lombard and the Lombard king Alboin that during the siege of Pavia was offered as a sign of peace, a sweet bread shaped pigeon (Colomba), or related participation of a legend of Queen and the holy Lombard Teodolinda San Colombano Irish abbot; origins of this culmination, now essential, Easter tables are much more recent
It was Dino Villani, director of advertising firm based in Milan Motta, famous for its Christmas pantteones pandulces or, in the 30s of 1900, to enjoy the same dishes, created this sweet similar to panettone, but aimed at the holidays Easter.
Since then Easter Dove (Colomba pasquale) flew to the table of all Italians, to the delight of large and small.
The Angel Monday or Easter Monday Pasquetta Pascueta popularly called, is the day after Easter.
Its name comes from that on this day we remember the meeting, at the tomb, the angel to Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of Joses, and Salome.
Easter Monday is a public holiday civilly, introduced after the war, and was created to extend Easter.
On Monday the Angel, in Italy, usually passes along to family or friends with a traditional picnic excursion or outdoor.

10 curiosities about Italy

1. Two of the countries considered in Europe as the smallest, are included within Italy. These are San Marino and Vatican.

2. The thermometer was invented by an Italian: Galileo Galilei.

3. Italy is the fifth most visited country in the world with more than 43% of annual tourism.

4. The Italian industry is concentrated around the cities of Milan, Genoa and Turin.

5. Italian families were reputed to be very numerous and have many children per couple, but the data show that birth rates are lowest birth in Europe.

6. Italy needs to import more than 75% of the energy used.

7. Italy's national dish is pasta. Perhaps we tend to associate the pizza in this country, but it is considered more important dish there.

8. Italy has three active volcanoes. These are the Vesuvius, Etna and Stromboli.

9. The richest region in Europe is around the area of Venice.

10. The average age of the inhabitants of Italy are all 41 years.

Italian philosophers

If you give a good wife you'll be happy, and if not you will become a philosopher, it is always useful to man.

Pitigrilli (1893-1975) Italian writer.
It is difficult to create ideas and easy to create words, hence the success of philosophers.

André Maurois (1885-1967) French novelist and essayist.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; than it is to change it.

Karl Marx (1818-1883) German philosopher and economist.
True philosophers are those who like to see the truth.

Plato (427 BC-347 BC) Greek philosopher.
A philosopher is a guy who goes to a summit in search of the sun, is fog descends and explains the magnificent spectacle that he saw.

William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) British writer.
Dialecticians and Sophists, in their disquisitions, are clothed appearance philosophers.

Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.
It is for the philosopher to speculate about everything.

Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.
Not having a philosophy philosopher who head is not well in the heart.

Arturo Graf (1848-1913) Italian writer and poet.
The greatest good that can exist in a state is to have true philosophers.

René Descartes (1596-1650) French philosopher and mathematician.
The philosopher, philosophy should do when life is over.

Italian Geography

Italy is a country belonging to the European Union, whose territory is mainly in the Italian peninsula, plus some nearby islands. Bordered on the south Tyrrhenian Seas Mediterranean, Ionian, south and east, and north to the Adriatic, Slovenia and Austria and northwest with France, Switzerland and the Ligurian Sea, in the Mediterranean. Within the peninsula are also independent countries of San Marino and the Vatican City. The peninsula is separated from the rest of Europe by the Alps.


The capital of Italy is Rome, the official language of Italy, the euro currency (formerly the Italian lira) and the official time of the CET (UTC +1). The total area of ​​Italy is 301,270 km ², has 1932 miles of coastline and 7,600 border.
A core part of the peninsula, are Italian islands of Sicily and Sardinia, as well as many minor ones: Agates, Burano, Capraia, Caprera, Capri, Elba, Pianosa, Favignana, Ferdinandea, Giannutri, Giudecca, Santo Stefano, Aegadian , Aeolian, Lavezzi, Pelagie, Ischia, Lampedusa, Linosa, Lipari, Montecristo, Murano, Palmaria, Pandataria, Pantelleria, Pianosa, Procida, Salina, Stromboli, Tavolara, Tiber, Tinetto, Tino, Tremiti, Ustica and Vulcan.
Italy occupies a central position in the Mediterranean, and as such it dominated for centuries. It is the birthplace of the Roman Empire, which spread all around the Mediterranean, and is in the direct origin of Western European civilization that dominates the world. During the Middle Ages and the early modern period was divided into multiple republics, many of them very powerful: Genoa, Venice, Florence, and especially the Papal States, from which he ruled the Catholic Church Pope. It is also the birthplace of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, artistic styles reference in the Western world. It unifies again in the nineteenth century, after the Napoleonic invasion, and becomes, then, one of the main European countries. After the Second World War reached a level of development that places him among the first in the world. Founding member of the European Union since the founding treaty was signed in Rome in 1957.
Today Italy is a democratic parliamentary republic and is governed by the constitution of 1948. Executive power rests with the president and the prime minister. The President is the head of state. It ensures the unity of the country and respect the constitution. It acts as a referee in political conflicts. He is elected by Parliament for a period of seven years. The president appoints the prime minister, who is the head of government and elect their ministers. The prime minister has to be accepted by parliament.
The legislative power is vested in a bicameral parliament consisting of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. Both cameras have the same powers. Deputies and senators are democratically elected in direct elections for a period of five years. However, there are a few senators for life.
The judicial power is vested in the courts. The country's highest courts are the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court.
The Italian political game without ever leaving the strict democratic margins, is very unstable, and governments often happen, we always need partnerships and fall because of more or less high-profile scandals. However, political stability is very noticeable background.
Italy is divided into 20 administrative regions, and these into provinces and these, in turn, in municipalities or communes. Five of the regions: Valle d'Aosta, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Sicily, Sardinia and Trentino-Alto Adige, have a special status that gives them greater political autonomy.