Italy's charming ancient capital is "Roma."

Rome It is the country's largest and most populated city with over 2.7 million people.

Rome is the center of politics. Here sits the Italian government, the Italian Parliament, the Prime Minister, and the President of the Italian Republic. Rome's history goes back over two and a half thousand years. Roma has maintained in a good condition its very ancient ruins, such as "the Colosseum".

Italian economy and culture! "Milano" is recognized as the second major city of Italy after Rome. It is the center of fashion and Italian design and also provides a strong influence on commerce, industry, music, sport, literature, art, and media. Oh yes, but Milan is also one of the world's major financial and business centers, and "Teatro della Scala" is known throughout the world.

Italian families has changed a lot. The elders are becoming the larger proportion of the population because the birthrate has dropped to 1.2 children per woman. Each family is having only one baby because of the economic crisis and the continuing increase in the unemployment level in the country. Children in Italy usually live with their parents until they get married, and Italians in general are really attached to their towns, homes, and neighborhoods.

Italy's economy is ranked seventh in the world and is the fourth largest in Europe. Italy belongs to the group of eight industrialized nations and is a member of the European Union. The Italian economy is well developed in the northern area thanks to the presence of many factories and industrial companies, including those in the area between Turin, Milan, and Genoa.

From the days of Imperial Rome up to the end of the 16th century, the rich culture of Italy formed the nucleus of the Western World. The Roman Empire itself, the Roman Catholic Church's rise, the Renaissance era's intellectual flowering, and the advent of Humanism all exerted strong influence across the globe. Today, in literature, music, fashion and cuisine, Italian culture is best portrayed, all existing in harmony with great icons of the past, many of which are now UNESCO World Heritage sites.

Italy is home to more than 50 percent of the world's art treasures, and most locals still enjoy the works of its great composers over the years. Music is an important part of life, whether classical or contemporary, unsurprisingly in a country that invented the musical stage, and many of the world's greatest composers, conductors and singers have been born of piano and opera. In modern times, Italy is credited with developing progressive rock, italo-disco and experimental rock.

Italian literature, which started in the 13th century, is a body of written works produced in the Italian language. Until that time, almost every literary work composed during the Middle Ages in Europe was written in Latin. In comparison, it was primarily realistic in nature and developed by authors who were educated in ecclesiastical schools. Literature in Italian originated in French and Provençal, the languages of the north and south of France, respectively, later than literature. Before the end of the 12th century, only small fragments of Italian vernacular verse were discovered (although a number of Latin legal documents contain witness testimony in an Italian vernacular dialect), and remaining verses of the 12th and 13th centuries represent French and Provençal influence.