Italy is a country, full of majestic mountains, placid lakes, idyllic islands, splendid cities and wonderful walled villages. With an ideal climate, it is a destination for the art lover, the gourmand, the active vacation, the businessman, for everyone.
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Situated in Mediterranean Europe, Italy has land frontiers with France in the northwest, Switzerland and Austria in the north and Slovenia in the northeast and is geographically divided into 20 regions.
The Ligurian Sea, the Sardinian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea in the west, the Sicilian Sea and the Ionian Sea in the south and the Adriatic Sea in the east, surround the peninsula. Italian is the language of the majority of the population but there are minorities speaking German, French, Slovene and Ladino.
Although characterized predominantly by two mountain chains: the Alps and the Apennines, there is a great deal of variety in the landscape. The former extends over 600 miles from east to west, with peaks rising to over 14,000 feet, including Mont Blanc, Monte Rosa and Cervino (the Matterhorn). The chain is lower in the eastern sector, although the mountains, the Dolomites, are still of extraordinary beauty.
