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How to visit Italy...
How to visit Italy...
How to visit Italy...
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Suggerimenti in lingua inglese al turista che intende vistare l'Italia.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherYoucanprint
Release dateApr 22, 2019
ISBN9788831616751
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    How to visit Italy... - Giglio Reduzzi

    633/1941.

    Italian houses

    Considering that Italy has more art per square mile than any other Country in the world (not to mention her natural beauties), I cannot blame you for your desire to visit it.

    The trouble is that the average North-American (whom this booklet is particularly addressed to and whom I boast to know) has no hint of what he is bumping into, when doing so.

    For instance, most North-Americans, being used to have a lot of elbow room around, find it surprising that we Italians should live piled up like sardines in high-rising buildings, rather than in stand-alone houses.

    As a matter of fact, when we Italians go out shopping, we come home happy for just finding a parking space outside the shop, let alone locating the type of ham we were after.

    But there is a reason for it.

    We are short of space.

    Our towns, all of them, were built at times when concerns of defense prevailed over any other reason.

    Now none of us is afraid of being attacked by the Turks, but once we were. And have been for centuries.

    That is why our towns are often surrounded by walls and all around the Italian peninsula there are the remains of nearly seven hundred saracene towers, as they were -and still are- called.

    To better defend ourselves we tended to stay closer, which meant making houses higher and higher and streets narrower and narrower.

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