Table of Contents 4 N O 00 A 10 12 14 Welcome Hills and Mountains Water Everywhere Lots of Farmland All Weather The Romans Italy Comes Back Becoming One Italy The Italians City Life Country Life Getting Around All in the Family Let's Eat 30 School Six Days a Week 32 Religion 34 Time Off 36 Kick It 38 Folk Arts and Music 40 Invent This 42 The Flag of Italy 44 Fast Facts Glossary 46 To learn more Index 48 16 45 18 20 22 24 26 28 47
Welcome Two Small Countries i Italy sits on the continent of Europe The Country is long and narrow It is shaped like a tall boot The Mediterranean Sea surrounds three sides of the boot Northern Italy touches France Monaco Switzerland Austria and Slovenia Two large islands are also part of Italy Sardinia lies west of Italy Sicily nearly touches the toe of Italy's boot Two very small countries are tucked inside Italy They rule themselves Vatican City is in Rome Italy's capital San Marino is in central Italy Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea Mount Etna rises in background the
S AUSTRIA SWITZERLAND turns to SLOVENIA SLOVENIA 2 TIKE NAGGIORE A Milan Turine St GIRDI Venice FRANCE Bologna SAN MARINO Florence Er Pisa MONACO Siena iT AY ADRIATIC ГЕА MEDITERRANEAN ТЕА VATICAN Rome CITY NHINESE TYRRHENIAN ГЕА Pompeii TESUTIUS SARDINIA A mountains volcano country's capital city MILES 100 IONIAN ГЕА 100 KILOMETERS SICILY
