Thursday, September 23, 2010

Italy

I would like to visit Italy, because my family comes from there. Italy is a country that was born from the revolution led by Garibaldi, because before of it, Italy was constituted by a lot of separated "states", but it would be more certain to call them independant cities. The most important were northern ones, like Genova, Venezia and Firenze. Most of them keep some medieval structures, even some keep their walls, like Lucca does, but most of them destroyed their walls because it didn't allow the city to grow. Some of them, like Roma keep their cathedrals, but completely surrounded by skyscrapers, so it looks very strange. On the other side, Pisa has the Leaning Tower surrounded by a huge countryside, where is a cementery and another cathedral. In that very Cathedral, Galileo Galileo studied oscilation in the movement of candelabra, and did a lot of experiments. On the other side, Venezia stays pretty much the same during all these years, with their "pontes" and their very thin streets. Instead of buses, the public transportation are the "vaporettos", medium sized ships that go through the canals carrying people just like buses do on a normal city, but you can also take "gondola" that are like Taxi, because you go alone or with a partner, and its a private service. When a couple takes a gondola, the driver usually sings and plays an instrument. It's a very beautyfull scene!

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