Italy
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Italy,
slightly larger than Arizona, is a long
peninsula shaped like a boot, surrounded on
the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea and on the
east by the Adriatic.
It is bounded
by France, Switzerland, Austria, and
Slovenia to the north. The Apennine
Mountains form the peninsula's backbone; the
Alps form its northern boundary.
The largest
of its many northern lakes is Garda (143 sq
mi; 370 sq km); the Po, its principal river,
flows from the Alps on Italy's western
border and crosses the Lombard plain to the
Adriatic Sea.
Several
islands form part of Italy; the largest are
Sicily (9,926 sq mi; 25,708 sq km) and
Sardinia (9,301 sq mi; 24,090 sq km).
From
the sunny southern slopes of the Alps to the
lush orange groves of Sicily,
Italy offers enormous variety in its natural scenery and historical
backgrounds.
Italy is a land
celebrated for the arts, and not the least among the arts that have
attained their highest expression in Italy is the art of
hospitality.
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