Travel in italy, a popular culinary destination, and find some of the world's best acclaimed foods, wines and pastries. And you won't be able to resist experiencing every bit of Old World Europe's legacies known all over the world.italy is only partly a Mediterranean country - 3/5ths of it is Alpine too, with the Alps and Dolomites in the North and the Apennines running down the spine. The beautiful city of Torino hosted the 2006 Winter Olympics of course and it reached -30c in Friuli last year. italy also has several active volcanoes generating geothermal events. Etna, on the eastern tip of the island of Sicily, has been erupting intermittently since 2000.Rome, the capital city of italy, is full of places of historical significance from the Forum and the Collosseum of the Roman Empire to St. Other popular destinations for backpackers include, but are not limited to, the art rich
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