Team+Italy

=**Team Italy**= = =


 * Members:** Kelly, Jessica, Aaron and Mic. **Use this space to collaborate and research for your Travel Diary Assignment.**

=Team Contract=

We will all turn up on Monday and on time we will do the following things
 * Have equal workloads
 * Achieve a pass
 * Tolerance
 * Flexibility
 * Listen to others

=The Country we decided to visit=

The country we decided to visit was Italy,however we decided to focuss our attention more on Rome as we found it to be more appealing.

=**How you got there**=

We decided to catch the Qantas; Sydney-Rome.We arrived at sydney airport at 2:55 pm then changed planes at hong kong.We departed from hong-kong airport at 9:55pm and arrived in rome at 6:35am.

=Where you stayed=

The hotel we stayed in was called Eurostar International Palace.It's a 4 star hotel in a renaissance style.It included the following facilities.
 * 1) Elevator Services
 * 2) Room Service
 * 3) 24-Hour Front Desk; offering Currency Exchange facilities
 * 4) Baggage Storage Area
 * 5) location and area information
 * 6) Airport Shuttle Service

Internet Rates in 2006/2007** What you ate During our stay in Rome we vistied many restaurants and ejoyed the most finest quisine like Chicken Marsala,Baked Ziti,Zuppa Toscana,Beef carpaccio and many different varieties of pasta.
 * Eurostars International Palace
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=Demographics and population=

The country has the fifth-highest population density in Europe at 193 persons per square kilometre (499/sq. miles). However,Italy's main population centers fall among several cities, mainly Turin, Rome, Milan, and Naples, with no single large city to rival the size of cities such as London, Paris or Moscow. As with many other nations in Europe, Italy is currently facing a natural population decline, supplemented only by immigration. Italy receives roughly 300,000 immigrants a year, Population estimates place Italy's population at roughly 41 million in 2050 if the current population trend continues.The number of immigrants or foreign residents in Italy has steadily increased to reach 2,402,157, They currently make up a little more than 4% of the official total population. The majority of immigrants in Italy come from other surrounding European nations, and they number 1,122,276, figures, are more commonly women than men

=Climate and Environment=

11degres-19degres cool mediterranin breezes

=Places of Interest - identify interesting places and events to visit=
 * Colesseum**

The Colesseum or another word we found used "Falvion Amphitheatre" was known as the areana where the ancient's hosted the contests of the gladiators and the wild beasts hunt 'Games' this occured of 450yrs.Its located on Marshy land between the esquiline and Caeliun Hills.Its unique size and practical abiltiy to hold a large croud makes it one of the greatest archetictual monuments ever built.This amphitheatre seats 50,000 people in the main auditorium.Underneath this wooden area floor held a set of rooms and passageways where the wild beasts would be found lurking.Eighty wall extend from the areana and support the passageways,stairways and seats.


 * Spanish Steps**

The Spanish Seps were thought to be the place to go inRome where women can go to meet italian men.Foreign Women can almost accept to be given a rose or mariage proposal here.


 * Trevi Fountain**

This fountain was completed in 1762.It was orginally bulit to create a fountain in trevi square.This fountain would bring the water from Solone Springs located 20 km from Rome.



The figure located in the middle of the fountain is know as Neptune(God of the sea).He is riding a chariot pulled by twosea horses.One sea horses is seen to be calm and obediant,the other,restive,they symolise the various moods of the sea. On the left hand side of Neptune is a Statue representing Abundancem,the statue on the right represents Salubrity. The water at the bottom of the fountain represents the sea.Legend has it,if you throw a coin over the opposite shoulder whilst facing your back to the fountain,you will deffinately return to Rome


 * Mouth of Truth**

The Bocca Della Verita(Mouth Of Truth)It is believed that the hands of liers will be cut off if placed in the mouth.To keep the superstition alive,the priest used to lace a scorpian at the back of the mouth to sting the fingers of the suspected fibbers


 * The Roma Jazz Festival**

This unique festival has been runnning for over 25yrs.It commences on the 27th of October and concludes on the 18th of November.This annual festival features performances from different age groups coming from all around the world.

The festival starts with the performance of the "Sax Summit" at the Parco della Musica. A veritable conclave of all-star saxophonists—Michael Brecker, Joe Lovano, and Dave Liebman—will blend together their individual sounds in a program dedicated to the incomparable John Coltrane. The festival's most mainstream performances follow on the 8th and 9th of November with the Daniel Perez trio and Take 6, respectively. Perez, an ex-member of the Wayne Shorter Quartet, is widely regarded as one of the most formidable pianists in contemporary Latin jazz and has garnered three Grammy nominations since his split with Shorter. Likewise, Take 6 has been well recognized by the Grammy juries, earning 6 nominations for its notably American mixture of gospel, doowop, and a cappella.All round,it collaborates many different styles of talented upcoming musicians and is a fun day out.


 * Trajan's Markets**

The covered hall of Trajan's market was designed by the emperor's ingenius architect Apollodorus of Damascus. It represents the ancient equivalent of the modern shopping centre, housing no less than 150 shops and offices.The offices are believed to have been used to administer the corn dole. The shops varied in size,through most were rather small.The customer would most likely approach the shop keeper at the door and then be served there,rather than actually entering the room.The main hall provides a spacious vaulted chamber on which shops line the walls on two floors.Walking through the market, there seems no end of alleys and corridors with little shops in them.Behind the colonnade running along the main square of Trajan's Forum, you can clearly make out the curved facade of the markets which still stand today.


 * International Horse show**

After seventy four editions, the International Horse Show at Piazza di Siena is still one of the most important and exciting events of its kind in the field of equestrian sports, and a must for Romans and visitors alike. The 75th International Show Jumping Nations Super Cup League will be held on Piazza di Siena, in Villa Borghese. Show jumping is the only sport hosted in this beautiful public park in the heart of Rome. The Piazza di Siena first opened its gates to team show jumping in 1928 when France, Poland, Spain and Italy battled it out, but equestrian competition was first staged at this prestigious venue six years earlier in 1922, and in 1926 the first international fixture was held.

=**Demographics and Population**= Culture - arts, society, music, language, traditions and customs Italy, as a state, did not exist until the unification of the country came to a conclusion in year 1861.Many traditions and customs that we now recognize as distinctly Italian can be identified by their regions of origin, which further reflect the influence of the many different peoples that occupied those areas, and of the importance of religion, especially roman catholiciusm Despite the pronounced political and social isolation of these regions that prevailed throughout Italy's history, Italy's contributions to the cultural and historical heritage of Europe remain immense.. Perhaps Italy's greatest cultural achievements lie in its long artistic heritage, which is often validated through the names of Micelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Donatello, Botticelli, Fra Angelico, Tintoretto, Caravaggio, Bernini, Titian and Raphael, among many others.

Laws and Government - find out about local laws, including issues that may lead to cultural difficulties or misunderstandings
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