List of cultural icons of Italy
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Tower of Pisa
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The List of cultural icons of Italy is a list of links to potential cultural icons of Italy.[1][2]
Art
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini
- Sandro Botticelli
- Caravaggio
- Donatello
- Fra Angelico
- Pietro Cascella[3]
- Giorgio de Chirico
- Giotto
- Luciano Fabro[4]
- Raphael
- Leonardo da Vinci,[5][6][7] Mona Lisa
- Michelangelo, Michelangelo's David[8]
- Tintoretto
- Titian[9][10]
Buildings
- Arena di Verona[11][12]
- Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence
- Castel Nuovo, Naples
- Colosseum[13][14]
- Duomo di Milano
- Faro di Genova
- Grand Canal (Venice)
- Mole Antonelliana, Turin
- Palazzo Madama, Palazzo Montecitorio in Rome
- Ponte Vecchio, Florence
- St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican
- Sistine Chapel, Vatican
- Tower of Pisa[15]
- Two Towers, Bologna
Dress and fashion
- Armani[16]
- Benetton
- Roberto Cavalli
- Dolce & Gabbana
- Ferragamo[17]
- Gianfranco Ferré[18]
- Gucci
- Krizia
- Luxottica
- Prada
- Pucci[19]
- Valentino
- Versace[20]
Emblems
- Flag of Italy, Il Tricolore, bandiera italiana
- Il Canto degli Italiani, (Inno di Mameli)
- Italia Turrita, national personification of Italy
- Emblema della Repubblica italiana, emblem of Italy
- Stella d’Italia, white star five tips that for many centuries represented the Italian land
- Coccarda italiana tricolore, Italian tricolor cockade
- Stendardo presidenziale italiano, banner of the President of Italy
- Il Vittoriano, Altar of the Motherland
- Festa della Repubblica, Birth of the Italian Republic
- Corbezzolo, national plant
Festivals, holidays
- Agriturismo
- Calcio storico
- Carnival of Venice
- Ferragosto
- Varia di Palmi, Palmi
- Palio di Siena[21]
- Regata Storica, Venice[22]
- Sanremo Music Festival
Food and beverages
Government
- Italian Chamber of Deputies
- Palazzo Madama, Palazzo Montecitorio, Parliament of Italy, President of the Italian Republic, Prime Minister of Italy
- Republican Constitution
- Senate of the Republic
History and legend
- Ancient Rome
- Camillo Cavour
- Etruscans
- Giuseppe Garibaldi[23]
- Renaissance
- Risorgimento
Industry, science
- Agnelli family[24]
- Ferrari
- Giovanni Domenico Cassini
- Enrico Fermi[25]
- Leonardo Fibonacci
- Galileo Galilei[26]
- Rita Levi-Montalcini
- Guglielmo Marconi[27][28]
- Antonio Meucci
- Alessandro Volta
- Leonardo da Vinci
Language
- Italian (language)[29][30][31]
- Italian dialects: Central Italian, Friulian language, Ligurian Language, Lombard language, Marchigiano language, Neapolitan language, Piedmontese language, Romanesco language, Sardinian language, Sicilian language, Tuscan language and Venetian language
Literature, comics, press
- Dante Alighieri[32]
- Gabriele d'Annunzio
- Ludovico Ariosto
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Giordano Bruno
- Italo Calvino
- Giosuè Carducci, Corriere della Sera
- Grazia Deledda, Divina Commedia
- Michelangelo Florio Crollalanza
- Dario Fo[33]
- Giacomo Leopardi
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Alessandro Manzoni
- Francesco Petrarca
- Luigi Pirandello[34]
- Salvatore Quasimodo, La Stampa
- Italo Svevo
- Torquato Tasso
- Giuseppe Ungaretti
Music
- Tomaso Albinoni,[35] Arena di Verona[36]
- Vincenzo Bellini, Luciano Berio, Luigi Boccherini, Andrea Bocelli,[37] Ferruccio Busoni
- cantautore, "Il Canto degli Italiani", Canzone Napoletana, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Adriano Celentano, Luigi Cherubini, Domenico Cimarosa, Arcangelo Corelli, Franco Corelli
- Fabrizio De Andrè, Francesco De Gregori, Gaetano Donizetti
- Ivano Fossati, Florentine Camerata
- Andrea Gabrieli, Giovanni Gabrieli, Beniamino Gigli, Tito Gobbi, Francesco Guccini
- Italian opera
- Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Pietro Mascagni, Gian Carlo Menotti, Mina, Domenico Modugno,[38] Claudio Monteverdi, Ennio Morricone
- Luigi Nono
- O sole mio[39]
- Niccolo Paganini, Giovanni Palestrina, Luciano Pavarotti,[40] Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Maurizio Pollini, Giacomo Puccini[41]
- Ottorino Respighi, Gioacchino Rossini
- Sanremo Music Festival, La Scala, Alessandro Scarlatti, Domenico Scarlatti, Renata Scotto, Giuseppe di Stefano[42]
- Renata Tebaldi, Arturo Toscanini
- Umbria Jazz Festival
- Venice Festival of Contemporary Music, Giuseppe Verdi, Antonio Vivaldi[43]
People
- Agnelli family, Giorgio Ambrosoli, Giulio Andreotti, Giorgio Armani, Massimo d'Azeglio
- Benetton family, Enrico Berlinguer, Silvio Berlusconi,[44] Emma Bonino, Carla Bruni
- Roberto Calvi, Camillo Cavour
- Galileo Galilei, Valentino Garavani,[45] Giuseppe Garibaldi[23]
- John XXIII
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Michelangelo Buonarroti, Aldo Moro[46] Benito Mussolini[47]
- Padre Pio,[48] Romano Prodi,[49] Emilio Pucci, Miuccia Prada[19]
- Saint Francis
- Palmiro Togliatti
Places
- Adriatic Sea, Amalfi, Ancona, Aosta Valley, Apennine Mountains, Arezzo
- Bari, Bergamo, Bologna, Bolzano
- Calabria, Capri, Catania, Como
- Elba, Emilia-Romagna, Mount Etna[50][51]
- Ferrara, Florence, Friuli-Venezia Giulia
- Genoa
- Ionian Sea
- La Spezia, Lake Como, Lake Garda, Lazio, Liguria, Ligurian Sea, Livorno, Lombardy, Lucca
- Mantua, Marche, Mediterranean Sea, Messina, Milan, Modena
- Naples
- Padua, Palatine Hill,[52] Palermo, Parma, Perugia, Pisa
- Ravenna, Rimini, Rome
- Sanremo, Sardinia, Sicily, Siena,[21] Sorrento, South Tyrol, St Mark's Square,[53] Stromboli
- Trentino, Trento, Treviso, Trieste, Turin, Tuscany, Tyrrhenian Sea
- Udine, Umbria
- Veneto, Venice,[54][55][56] Verona, Vesuvius,[57] Vicenza
Shopping, money
Sport
- Palio di Siena[21]
- Calcio[58]
- Calcio fiorentino
- Catenaccio
- Juventus F.C.[59]
- Italian national football team[60]
- Zona mista
Television, radio, film, theatre
- Michelangelo Antonioni,[61] Dario Argento
- Roberto Benigni,[62] Bernardo Bertolucci, Rossano Brazzi
- Claudia Cardinale, Cinecittà,[63] Commedia dell'arte,[64][65]
- Eleonora Duse
- Federico Fellini, Gabriele Ferzetti, Dario Fo[64][65]
- Alberto Sordi
- Vittorio Gassman
- Sergio Leone, Virna Lisi, Gina Lollobrigida, Sophia Loren
- Anna Magnani, Silvana Mangano, Elsa Martinelli, Giulietta Masina, Marcello Mastroianni, Mario Monicelli, Nanni Moretti, Ornella Muti
- Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ugo Pirro,[66] Moana Pozzi
- RAI, Raiuno, Raidue, Raitre, Franca Rame, Dino Risi,[67] Isabella Rossellini, Roberto Rossellini,[68] Eleonora Rossi Drago[69]
- Vittorio de Sica
- Ugo Tognazzi
- Alida Valli, Venice Film Festival,[70] Luchino Visconti, Monica Vitti
Transport
- Agusta, Alfa Romeo, Alitalia,[71] Ansaldo, Aprilia, Azimuth
- Benetton Formula, Beretta, Bianchi, Bottecchia
- Ducati
- Ferrari, Ferretti, Fiat, Fiat 500,[72] Fiat Panda
- Iveco
- Lamborghini[73] Lancia, Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport
- Malpensa International Airport, Venice Marco Polo Airport, Maserati, Moto Guzzi, Mv Agusta
- Navigli
- Pagani, Piaggio, Andrea Pininfarina,[74] Pendolino
- Riva
See also
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