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Martina Franca
Italy, officially the Italian Republic or Repubblica Italiana, is a Southern European country comprising of the Po River valley, the Italian Peninsula and the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. It is shaped like a boot and for this reason Italians commonly call it lo Stivale, the boot or, due to its prevalent peninsular geographical nature, la Penisola, the Peninsula.
Inhabitants of Italy are referred to as Italians. Their official language is Standard Italian, descendant of Tuscan dialect and a direct descendant of Latin. The word Italy is derived from the Homeric Aeolic word which means bull. Italy is subject to highly diverse weather conditions in autumn, winter, and spring. The country has the fifth-highest population density in Europe at 193 persons per square kilometer. Today, despite regional variations in the form of accents and vowel emphasis, Italian is fully comprehensible to most throughout the country.
Martina Franca is a city in the province of Taranto, Puglia, Italy. Since 1975, the city has hosted the annual summer opera festival of opera, Festival della Valle d'Itria. Martina Franca is a smart town settled 431 meters above sea level, lying over one of the last southern hills in the south-east of the Murgia area. It overlooks the charming Valle d’Itria, a beautiful region with trees and white houses called trulli. The main attraction of the town is absolutely the old town centre, a typical example of baroque art, with its smart streets, its white lanes, its stylish mansions and its stately and monumental churches.
The municipality in which nowadays live around 49,000 people is also a very important site at national level for its clothes industry. Other important sectors, leading the economy of the town, are agribusiness and breeding, territory of a precious livestock, acknowledged all over Italy and abroad. Martina Franca is a very popular tourist site, not only for its rich and precious architectural, historical and artistic heritage, but also for its cultural activities that reach their best expression in the well-known and awaited Valle d Itria Festival.
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