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]