Experience Italy

03/09/2025

02/25/2025

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02/22/2025

Positano, Amalfi Coast, Italy 🇮🇹❤️
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02/15/2025

02/15/2025

02/14/2025

THE GREEKS GAVE ITALY ITS NAME
The name "Italy" has its roots in ancient Greek legend, and its origins reflect both mythology and the geographic features of the region. According to Greek tradition, the name comes from Italos, a legendary king of the Oenotrians, an ancient people who inhabited southern Italy, from Paestum in Campania to Calabria. The Oenotrians, believed to have Greek origins themselves, were among the earliest inhabitants of the Italian peninsula. Italos, often said to be the son of Penelope and Telegonus (the son of Odysseus), became the figure after whom the land was named. The Greek historians Aristotle and Thucydides were among the first to record this myth, associating the name Italia with the descendants of Italos.
Over time, the Greeks expanded the term "Italia" to encompass a larger region of southern Italy. During the 1st century BCE, under Augustus, the name was extended to cover the entire Italian peninsula, including the Alps. The Romans further adopted the name, and under Emperor Diocletian, the Roman province of Italia was expanded to include the islands of Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica. The etymology of "Italy" might also be linked to the Greek word Aethalia, meaning "land of fog and smoke," in reference to the many active volcanoes in the region, such as Mount Etna. This volcanic connection further solidified the association of the name Italia with the unique and powerful landscape of the Italian peninsula.

02/11/2025

02/10/2025

Coffee in Florence ❤🇮🇹

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02/07/2025

The Heneti, also referred to as the Adriatic Veneti, inhabited northeastern Italy as an Indo-European people. The Venetic language spoken by the ancient Veneti exhibits similarities with Latin and other Italic languages, as well as certain affinities with Germanic and Celtic languages.
Geographically, the Heneti occupied a territory encompassing modern-day Veneto and the surrounding Po Delta region. Ancient sources, including Herodotus, Virgil, Pliny the Elder, Polybius, and Titus Livius, identify the Heneti as the ancestral origins of the Veneti people in Italy.
Historical accounts indicate that the Heneti engaged in recurring conflicts with neighboring Celtic populations. Conversely, they maintained harmonious relationships with the Cenomani Celts, who established settlements in Brescia and Verona.
During the Second Punic War, the Veneti formed an alliance with the Romans, opposing the combined forces of the Celts, Iberians, and Carthaginians. Archaeological findings suggest that the Heneti were adept horsemen and fishermen, with a particular fondness for competitive sports like boxing and boat racing.

The Veneti (sometimes also referred to as Venetici, Ancient Veneti or Paleoveneti to distinguish them from the modern-day inhabitants of the Veneto region, called Veneti in Italian) were an Indo-European people who inhabited northeastern Italy, in an area corresponding to the modern-day region of Veneto, from the middle of the 2nd millennium BC and developing their own original civilization along the 1st millennium BC.

The Veneti were initially attested in the area between Lake Garda and the Euganean Hills; later they expanded until they reached borders similar to those of the current Veneto region. According to the archaeological finds (which also agree with the written sources), the western borders of their territory ran along Lake Garda, the southern ones followed a line that starts from the Tartaro river, follows the Po and reaches Adria, along the extinct branch of the Po of Adria, while the eastern ones reached up to the Tagliamento river.

Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy. Veneti are in brown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriatic_Veneti

02/07/2025

Archaeologists in Tuscany just unearthed "one of the most significant discoveries" of bronze statues in Italian history at an ancient spa near Siena. The baths at San Casciano dei Bagni were likely constructed by the Etruscans in the third century B.C.E., and they remained in use by Etruscans and Romans alike until the fifth century C.E., when they were sealed with heavy stones. During recent excavations at the site, researchers lifted the stones and discovered 24 statues in the mud and hot water beneath, perfectly preserved after 1,500 years. Learn more about this "absolutely unique" find: https://inter.st/7iio