Rome, rimini and the personalities born in these cities.

1. ITALYITALY
Italy official name of the Italian Republic, is in southern Europe.
It was united in 1861 and in 1946 the parliamentary Republic
was founded. Italy includes two small independent states: the
City of Vatican and the Republic of San Marino;
Champion of Italy is an Italian enclave in Swiss territory.
The capital of Italy is Rome.

2. Observing the political map of Italy
we notice that:
• Italy, from the administrative point
of view. Italy is divided into 20
countries. Every country is
composed of provinces
Valle D’Aosta, Trentino Alto
Adige
Friuli Venezia Giulia, Sicilia,
Srdegna have got a special
status.

3. ROMAROMA
Roma became capital of Italy in1871. It rises on the shores of the Tevere, in
proximity of the island Tiberina. Rome houses the legislative, political,
administrative structures, as well as the official home of the President of the
Republic. Its industries operate in the sectors of electronics,
airplane- space and high- technology and in the computer services. Overall
Rome is considered as the third industrial city of Italy. In the
province of Rome we remember at least Civitavecchia, the populous center
of the Roman Castles.

4. THE MONUMENTS OF ROMATHE MONUMENTS OF ROMA
FOUNTAIN OF TREVIFOUNTAIN OF TREVI
One of the symbols of Rome is the
Fountain of Trevi, built in the 18 th
Century, planned by Nicolò Salvi. It
has recently returned to his previous
shine after the restoration had lasted
several years. The legend says that if
a tourist launches a coin into the
fountain, he will return
for sure to visit the eternal city.

5. THE COLOSSEUM IN ROMETHE COLOSSEUM IN ROME
It is the greatest amphitheater of the whole
antiquity with a circumference of 527 meters
and a height of 57. Originally it was covered
with marbles. In the 17 th century it was
declared from Pope Benedetto XIV monument
to the memory of the Christian martyrs and
he has been able to preserve the actual form.
For the fun of the Romans fights were
organized for the anniversary of the
foundation in Rome in 249 A.D. with thousand
of gladiators and hundreds of wilde beasts
and exotic animals. Altogether the
amphitheater could entertain around 50.000
people and it represents an exceptional
architectural realization that testifies the
wisdom and the building technique reached
by the Romans.

6. THE BASILICA OF St. PIETRO
• The Basilica of St.Pietro in Vatican
is the Catholic basilica of the City
of the Vatican. Often described as
the greatest center of the
Catholicism. The Basilica of St.
Pietro is the centre of the principal
rites of the Catholic cult and is
therefore in solemn fuction on the
occasion of the celebrations for
Cristmas, Easter and the rites of
the Holy Week, the proclamation
of the popes and the obsequieses
of those dead, the opening and the
closing of the jubilees.

7. ENRICO FERMI
• Enrico Fermi was born in Rome on 29
September 1901 , and he died in Chicago on
28 November 1954. He was an Italian
physicist, particularly remembered for his
work on the development of the first
nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to
the development of quantum theory, nuclear
and particle physics, and statistical mechanics.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938
for his work on induced radioactivity, Fermi is
widely regarded as one of the leading
scientists of the 20th century, highly
accomplished in both theory and experiment.
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Fermium, a synthetic element created in
1952, the Fermi National Accelerator Lab, the
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, and a
type of particles called fermions are named
after him. In 1938, Fermi received the
Nobel Prize in Physics at the age of 37 for his
"demonstrations of the existence of new
radioactive elements produced by neutron
irradiation, and for his related discovery of
nuclear reactions brought about by slow
neutrons".

8. RIMINI
• Rimini, is a city and comune in Emilia-Romagna country of Italy and capital city of the
Province of Rimini. It is located on the Adriatic Sea, near the coast between the rivers Marecchia
(the ancient Ariminus) and Ausa (Aprusa). Coast navigation and fishing are traditional industries
and, together with Riccione, it is probably the most famous seaside resort on the Adriatic Riviera.
In 268 BC at the mouth of the Ariminus river, in an area that had previously been inhabited by the
Etruscans, the Umbrians, the Greeks and the Gauls, the Romans founded the colony of Ariminum,
probably from the name of a nearby river, Ariminus (today, Marecchia). It was seen as a bastion
against invading Gauls and also as a springboard for conquering the Padana plain. Rimini was a
road junction connecting central Italy (Via Flaminia) and northern Italy (Via Aemilia that led to
Piacenza and Via Popilia) and it also opened up trade by sea and river.
• In the sixth century BC, it was taken by the Gauls; after their last defeat (283 BC), it returned to the
Umbri and became in 263 BC a Latin colony, very helpful to the Romans during the late Gallic wars.
• The city was involved in the civil wars but remained faithful to the popular party and to its leaders,
firstly Marius and then Caesar. After crossing the Rubicon, the latter made his legendary appeal to
the legions in the Forum of Rimini.
• Rimini drew the attention of many Roman emperors, including Augustus who did much for the city
and Hadrian in particular. This great period in its history was embodied by the construction of
prestigious monuments such as the Arch of Augustus, Tiberius' Bridge and the Amphitheatre and
Galla Placida built the church of San Stefano.
• Crisis in the Roman world was marked by destruction caused by invasions and wars, but also by the
testimony of the palaces of the Imperial officers and the first churches, the symbol of the spread of
Christianity that held an important Council in Rimini in 359.

9. AUGUSTUS ARCH
• The Arch of Augustus was the triumphal arch
of Augustus in the Roman Forum. Dedicated
in 29 BC, it commemorates the great
battle of Actium (31 BC) against Anthony and
Cleopatra. The arch spanned the road
between the Temple of Castor and Pollux
and the Temple of Caesar, near the
Temple of Vesta.
• A large inscription was found in the same
location in 1546 AD, with a dedication to
Augustus, so the identification of the arch is
certain.
• Very little remains of the arch itself, but its
appearance is known from coins of the
period. It had three passageways, and served
as a model for the Arch of Septimius Severus,
which was the model for the later
Arch of Constantine.

10. TIBERIOUS BRIDGE
• The bridge over the Marecchia River,
then known as Ariminus, began
under the Emperor Augustus in A.D.
14 and was completed under Tiberius
in 21 A.D. The bridge still connects
the city centre to Borgo San Giuliano
and leads to the consular roads Via
Emilia and Via Popilia. Built in Istria
stone, the bridge consists of five
arches that rest on massive pillars
with breakwater spurs set at an
oblique angle with respect to the
bridge’s axis in order to follow the
current. The bridge’s structure on the
other hand, rests on a practical
system of wooden poles.

11. FEDERICO FELLINI
• Federico Fellini was born in Rimini on
20 January 1920 and he died in Rome
on 31 October 1993 and he was
famous film director. Known for a
distinct style that blends fantasy and
baroque images, he is considered
one of the most influential and
widely revered filmmakers of the
20th century.

12. • In 1924, Fellini started primary school in Rimini. An attentive student, he spent his leisure time drawing, staging
puppet shows, and reading Il corriere dei piccoli, the popular children’s magazine that reproduced traditional
American cartoons by Windsor McCay, George McManus, and Frederick Burr Opper. McCay’s Little Nemo had
a direct influence on City of Women while Opper’s Happy Hooligan was the visual inspiration for Gelsomina in
La strada. In 1926, he discovered the world of Grand Guignol, the circus with Pierino the Clown, and the
movies. Guido Brignone’s Maciste all’Inferno (1926), the first film he saw, would mark him in ways linked to
Dante and the cinema throughout his entire career.
Enrolled at the Ginnasio Giulio Cesare in 1929, he became a friend of Luigi ‘Titta’ Benzi, later a prominent
Rimini lawyer and the model for young Titta in Amarcord (1973). He visited Rome with his parents for the first
time in 1933, the year of the maiden voyage of the SS Rex, the transatlantic ocean liner referenced in
Amarcord. The sea creature found on the beach at the end of La Dolce Vita (1960) has its basis in a giant fish
marooned on a Rimini beach during a storm in 1934. Although Fellini adapted key events from his childhood
and adolescence in films such as I Vitelloni (1953), 8½ (1963), and Amarcord (1973), he insisted that such
autobiographical memories were inventions: "It is not memory that dominates my films. To say that my films
are autobiographical is an overly facile liquidation, a hasty classification. It seems to me that I have invented
almost everything: childhood, character, nostalgias, dreams, memories, for the pleasure of being able to
recount them.
In 1937, Fellini opened Febo, a portrait shop in Rimini with the painter Demos Bonini. His first humorous article
appeared in the "Postcards to Our Readers" section of Rimini’s Domenica del Corriere. Deciding on a career as a
caricaturist and gag writer, Fellini travelled to Florence in 1938 where he published his first cartoon in the
weekly 420. Failing his military culture exam, he graduated from high school in July 1938 after doubling the
exam.

13. LA DOLCE VITA
FEDERICO FELLINI
• La dolce vita(Italian for "The Sweet
Life") , is a 1960 film by the critically
acclaimed director Federico Fellini.
The film is a story of a passive
journalist's week in Rome, and his
search for both happiness and love
that will never come. Mentioned as
the film that signals the split between
Fellini's earlier neo-realist films and
his later art films, it is considered as
one of the greatest achievements in
the movie world.