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Italy Contents Country fact file Historical aspects of Italy Geographical aspects of Italy Economy National symbols Language Tourism in Italy Food Religion Grazie Country fact file Population: 58,147,733 (July 2007 est.) Size of Country: 301,230 sq km (slightly larger than Arizona) Capital City: Rome Time Zone: GMT+1 Location: Southern Europe, a peninsula extending into the central Mediterranean Sea, northeast of Tunisia Currency: Euro Language: Italian System of Government: Republic, led by President Giorgio Napolitano Telephone Country Code: 39 National Holidays: Republic Day, June 2 Religion: Roman Catholic (90%) Life Expectancy at Birth: 80 years Rome Rome (Roma in Italian) is the capital city of Italy and of the Lazio region and it has country’s largest population with more than 2.7 million residents. It is located in the central-western portion of the Italian peninsula, where the river Aniene joins the Tiber. The Mayor of Rome is Walter Veltroni. An enclave of Rome is the State of the Vatican City, the sovereign territory of the Holy See. It is the smallest nation in the world, and the capital of the only religion to have representation in the United Nations (as a non-member observer state). Giorgio Napolitano The President of the Italian Republic is Giorgio Napolitano. As the head of State of Italy, he is intended to represent national unity rather than a particular political tendency. His term of office lasts for seven years. He was elected the President of the Republic on May 10, 2006 at the fourth ballot and he became the eleventh President on the 15th of May, 2006. The President resides in Rome at the Quirinal Palace, and also has at his or her disposal the presidential holdings of Castelporziano, near Rome, and Villa Rosebery, in Naples. Historical Aspects The Italian Unification The Revolutions of Italy The Italian Unification Italian unification (called in Italian the Risorgimento, or Resurgence) was the political and so