Musicians: |
* opera singer Luciano Pavarotti * composers Verdi, Rossini, Puccini, Scarlatti, Vivaldi |
Painters and sculptors: |
* Giotto, Masaccio, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Titian |
Writers, thinkers and scientists: |
* Dante Alighieri, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Galileo Galilei; mathematician Fibonacci; nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi |
Movie directors: |
* Frederico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni. |
Cuisine: |
* many varieties of pasta, from spaghetti, tagliatelle, lasagne onwards * pizza - any topping you can think of baked on a flat disk of dough * cheeses - mozzarella, gorgonzola, mascarpone, ricotta. |
World Heritage sites: |
Numerous including – * archaeological sites at Pompei and Herculaneum, * Santa Maria delle Grazie church in Milan with Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper * Piazza del Duomo at Pisa * Mosaics of Ravenna and the historic centres of many cities. |
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