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Chapter 1 Sports Sports play a lot of part in Italy like soccer. In Italy soccer is known as football, it begins in childhood, and neighborhood play. On Mondays after the matches local newspapers devote half their pages to exciting moments of the game. On Sunday noisy fans pack the stadium afternoon to watch the confrontation between teams.

In the 20th century, three Italians won the alpine world cup. Italy will send 80 to 100 athletes to the youth Olympic Games in 2010. In 1952, Nino Farini became the first European to win the formula 1 world title. The first Olympic gold medal for an Italian female was won at the 19 Olympics.

The Italian national soccer team is most popularly known by the name of Azzurri, for the blue shirts winter sports in Italy is also one among the other most watched, and most enjoyed games.

Many handicapped people are seen to be participating in the sports in Italy. Skiing is probably one of the leisure interests of Italians.

Italy has won the world cup 3 times. Tickets for both domestic and European matches are regularly sold out. AC Milan soccer club is based at the San Siro stadium; it can hold up to 85,000 people. The national volleyball team won the world title in 1994.

Other popular sports include car racing, cycling, skiing, tennis, basketball, and volleyball.

Chapter 2 Animals There are many different animals in Italy. Wild goats are very endangered, there called the Mufloni. Brown bears like the cold weather and being in the Alps. The royal eagle and the capriole deer live in the pillion national park.

There is a large rare butterfly called the Parnassus Apollo.

Its wings are almost the same, with sports that are black and red. Wolves, falcons, the Bonillo eagle and the royal eagle live in aspromonte national park.

There were no skunks, raccoons, beavers or opossums. The marmot inhabits open country in the Alps. Ibex-these mountain goats live along the permanent snow line.

The North is the most important area for raising pigs, and cattle, while sheep and goats are raised in Central and goats are Southern regions in the islands.

Chapter 3 Christmas The feast day of the Roman’s old pagan god Mithra, however, fell on December 25. People call on friends and relatives, bringing gifts and sharing presents. New Years Eve is celebrated with parties, dancing, champagne, and fireworks!

The period between mid- December had long been of almost nonstop partying. In Italy they have a good time with, good will and sharing. They have Saint Lucy, and we have Saint Nicholas now, they had Saint Lucy in the 300’s. They don’t call Santa, Santa, they call him Saint Nicholas. Sometimes the musicians dress up as Shepherds, sometimes the performers are real Shepherd’s dress up in the olden days.

The holiday season commences officially, at least in Rhome, with firing a cannon from Castel St. Angelo on Christmas Eve. As twilight falls over the day, the family gathers once more around the prespio and candles, they sing, say prayers, and poetry recitals. Aside from the prespio and usually next to it each family also usually displays a large vessel or bowl that is filled with gifts.

On January 6th, kids hang up their stockings up.

They hang up their stockings up late is because God gave Jesus a present on that day. The novena is the period of eight days prior to Christmas Day, and is an exciting build up to that special day!

Chapter 4 Food There are many types of food in Italy. Here are some of the foods in Italy, there is egg cup for breakfast, and it’s like bacon cups with eggs in the middle. IF you go to a restaurant in Italy, most people will order pizza, because it’s the most popular thing in Italy.

There are a lot of common deserts in Italy, some common deserts are, walnut pie, chocolate walnut pie, cheese cake, and cheese cake with fruit.

In the morning if you what to go to go out for breakfast, some restaurants have just a breakfast buffet.

People in Italy take food very seriously; they don’t let a lot of food go to waste. One of the most popular ice deserts are lemon ice deserts, it is ice but its lemon juice on ice.

By 12:00 pm most Italian people who have breakfast are ready for a big dinner. They have a lot of vegetables, grain, sea food, ice cream, fruits, and daily products.