State d' Europe Western, on the Mediterranean; 301' 225 km ²; 57.7 million inhabitants (Italian).

There is not one, but of Italies. In the South, “African”, rich person and prosperous in Antiquity, still little developed in spite of recent efforts, are opposed the flat rich person and alpine mountains, formerly populated Barbarians. Everywhere economic, social and political imbalances strike the visitor. At the time of “economic miracle” succeeded the doubt then the crisis. The permanence of provincialism, the diffusion of a levelling urbanization and European anchoring however tend to unify spaces and the men.