passaggio nord ovest
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Hello everybody!We are a class of students aged beetwen 14 and 17 years old. We live in Turin, a city in the north of Italy founded by the Romans, so there are a lots of archeological ruins. Beyond being host nation of the Winter Olympics Games in 2006,our city has a lot of important museums, for example the Egyptian museum (which is the second most important in the world). The most representative building is the "Mole Antonelliana" which is also house of the Cinema Museum. The emblem of the town is the bull which also gives its name to one of the two soccer teams of the city: Toro and Juventus. As in all big cities, in Turin there is traffic and air pollution.Together with this letter we're sending you some pictures of our country. You will find many different landscapes, indeed ours is a much varied land. Our territory includes high mountains, lakes, rivers, islands, deep caves and crystal seas.Just click on different spots on the satellite map to see Italy. Enjoy.
Edoardo, Alberto,Amedeo, Giovanna, Federica, Matteo, Eleonora, Davide, Lucrezia, Valeria, Zully, Marta, Adele e Chiara
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WIDE RANGE OF LANDSCAPES
Wide range of flora and fauna
Many lakes
Climate mitigated by sea
High mountains
Low hills
Range of climates
Sandy beaches and rocky cliffs
Peninsula
Wide range of temperatures
Wide territory(latitude extension)
Altitude ranging from 0 mt to
4810 mt
Vast plans
Fluvioglacial erosion
Glaciers
Geologically young territory
Melting snow
Many rivers
Attention to the protectiony safeguard
of the enviroment
Presence of human beings from ancient
times
Strong anthropical impact
Rice fields in Pianura Padana ( vast plain in the North)
Apple trees in the region of Trentino
Vineyards in Piedmont ( our region )
In the background the highest volcano in Italy: the Etna (Sicily)
The highest peak in Europe: Mount Blanc
A mountain lake
The “Cinque Terre”: one of the world’s heritage places
Comacchio’s valleys
How salt is produced
Sardinia’ s sea
Tuscany’s sea
The hills around Siena
A typical wood
Dolomiti in winter
“Quel ramo del lago di Como” [quotation from Alessandro Manzoni’s novel]