From 1991, for three consecutive summers he went to Italy to study art, at the same time working as a lifeguard at local beaches to support his travels all around the country.

People mainly come to Italy for its rich art, cuisine, history, fashion and culture, its beautiful coastline and beaches, its mountains, and priceless ancient monuments, especially those from the Greek and Roman civilization.

Wellington strategic bombers average 85 sorties nightly – attacking evacuation beaches in Sicily until the night of August 13 – 14, then ports in mainland Italy – and medium bombers and fighter-bombers fly 1, 170 sorties.

On September 9, 1943, Paestum was the location of the landing beaches of the U. S. 36th Infantry Division during the Allied invasion of Italy.

Beginning on September 9, 1943, the Allied invasion of mainland Italy, ( code-named Operation Avalanche ), at Salerno and along the beaches to the southeast, found the 15th Panzergrenadiers among the principle defenders.

: Otta, Norway 1940, Withdrawal to Escaut, Defence of Arras, French Frontier 1940, Ypres-Comines Canal, Dunkirk 1940, St. Valery-en-Caux, Normandy Landing, Tilly sur Seulles, Odon, Fontenay Le Pesnil, Caen, Bourguebus Ridge, Troarn, Mont Pincon, St Pierre La Vielle, Gheel, Nederrijn, Aam, Venraij, Rhineland, Schaddenhof, Brinkum, Bremen, North-West Europe 1940 and 1944 – 45, Jebel Defeis, Keren, Ad Teclescan, Abyssinia 1940 – 41, Gazala, Cauldron, Mersa Matruh, Defence of Alamein Line, El Alamein, Mareth, Wadi ZigZaou, Akarit, North Africa 1940 – 42, 1942 – 43 and 1943, Banana Ridge, Medjez Plain, Gueriat el Atach Ridge, Tunis, Djebel Bou Aoukaz 1943, North Africa 1943, Primasole Bridge, Landing in Sicily, Lentini, Sicily 1943, Minturno, Anzio, Campoleone, Rome, Monte Ceco, Italy 1943 – 44 and 43 – 45, Sittang 1942, Pegu 1942, Paungde, Yenangyaung 1942, North Arakan, Maungdaw, Defence of Sinzweya, Imphal, Bishenpur, Kanglantonbi, Kohima, Meiktila, Capture of Meiktila, Defence of Meiktila, Rangoon Road, Pyawbwe, Arakan beaches, Chindits 1944, Burma Campaign ( 1942 – 44 ).

His work on the Manhattan Project coincidentally forces him to work with Victor Henry, who is vigorously pursuing the specialized parts needed to build landing craft for the assault on hostile beaches in Africa, Italy and France.

In March 2011 he led demonstrations of Forza Nuova against the recent surge of illegal immigrants to the island of Lampedusa, which had left the islanders outnumbered, stating to a crowd of people that: " Local people are now asking us to help secure the beaches, and if the Government continues to fail in its duty to protect the people, and also the territorial integrity of Italy and Europe, we will take up that challenge ".

The Pietrasanta Marina, with golden sand and luxurious equipments is considered one of the best beaches of Italy.

The bathing boxes are thought to have been constructed and used largely as a response to the Victorian morality of the age, and are known to have existed not only in Australia but also on the beaches of England, France and Italy at around the same time.

Pozzolana is a fine, sandy volcanic ash, originally discovered and dug in Italy at Pozzuoli in the region around Mount Vesuvius, but later at a number of other sites.

Pozzolana is abundant in certain locations and is extensively used as an addition to Portland cement in countries such as Italy, Germany, Turkey, China and Greece.

* AdA ( physics ) or Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare ( National Institute for Nuclear Physics ), Italy

* 1974 – A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.

Articolo 31 was one of the first hip hop groups in Italy, releasing one of the first Italian hip hop records, Strade di città, in 1993.

St Athanasius was originally buried in Alexandria, Egypt, but his body was later transferred to the Chiesa di San Zaccaria in Venice, Italy.

File: Parco di Castello, fontana del Gennaio 1. JPG | Parco di Villa Reale di Castello ( Villa di Castello ) Fountain of January ( Fontana del Gennaio ) in Florence Italy

Other well-known areas are: Chironico ( Switzerland ), Stanage ( UK ), Hueco Tanks ( Texas ), Val Masino and Val di Mello ( Italy ), Castle Hill ( New Zealand ), Bishop ( California ), Joe's Valley ( Utah ), Yosemite ( California ), Rocktown ( Georgia ), Rocklands ( South Africa ), Cocalzinho de Goiás ( Brazil ), Kjugekull ( Sweden ), Hampi ( India ) Horse Pens 40 ( Alabama ) and Horseshoe Canyon Ranch ( Arkansas ) amongst others.

* Val Masino and Val di Mello, Italy

While these included elite Bersaglieri, Alpini and Cacciatori units, a large proportion of the troops were inexperienced conscripts recently drafted from metropolitan regiments in Italy into newly formed " di formazione " battalions for service in Africa.

* The Charlie Chaplin Archive Online catalogue of Chaplin's professional and personal archives at the Cineteca di Bologna, Italy

An example of convergence from the other direction is shown in Srl CILFIT and Lanificio di Gavardo SpA v Ministry of Health ( Corte suprema di Cassazione, Italy, 1982 ), in which Italy's Supreme Court held that questions it has already answered need not be resubmitted.

* Città di Castello, a town in Umbria, Italy

Caterina Benincasa was born in Siena, Italy, to Giacomo di Benincasa, a cloth dyer who ran his enterprise with the help of his sons, and Lapa Piagenti, possibly the daughter of a local poet.

A judge in Italy came to a different conclusion in 1991, deciding that Flirty Fishing was not prostitution ( see Tribunale Penale di Roma ( Criminal Court of Rome ), 15 November 1991, re: Berg and others, and in the archives of the Criminal Court of Rome ( RG 3841 / 84 )).

Returning to Italy, the most celebrated doors are those of the Battistero di San Giovanni ( Florence ), which together with the door frames are all in bronze, the borders of the latter being perhaps the most remarkable: the modeling of the figures, birds and foliage of the south doorway, by Andrea Pisano ( 1330 ), and of the east doorway by Ghiberti ( 1425 – 1452 ), are of great beauty ; in the north door ( 1402 – 1424 ) Ghiberti adopted the same scheme of design for the paneling and figure subjects in them as Andrea Pisano, but in the east door the rectangular panels are all filled, with bas-reliefs, in which Scripture subjects are illustrated with innumerable figures, these being probably the gates of Paradise of which Michelangelo speaks.

* Comune di Fondi, Italy

Navigazione Lago di Como still operates the last Rodriquez RHS70 in active service in Italy.

After the referendum the king of Italy Umberto II di Savoia is exiled.

* 1985 – The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.

The small Oratorio di Santa Maria in Valle in Cividale del Friuli is probably one of the oldest preserved pieces of Lombard architecture, as Cividale was the first Lombard city in Italy.

* 1805 – Napoléon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Duomo di Milano, the gothic cathedral in Milan.

Traditional bathtub ( 19th century ) Museo Etnografico del Ponente Ligure | Ethnographic Museum of Western Liguria, Cervo, Liguria | Cervo, Italy

Traditional shoemaker at the Museo Etnografico del Ponente Ligure | Ethnographic Museum of Western Liguria, Cervo, Liguria | Cervo, Italy

Deutschnofen ( Italian: Nova Ponente ) is a comune ( municipality ) in the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 30 km southeast of the city of Bolzano.

*** Welschnofen ( Nova Levante ), in opposition to Deutschnofen ( Nova Ponente ), in Alto Adige, Italy.

But fifty years later the trilogy still maintains a firm place in the list of standard works on the unification of Italy, a position cautiously prophesied by the reviewers at the time of publication.

Blackman called the porter and had him remove everything but one bottle of brandy, and after that they would have a cocktail or two before dinner, or, on one of their walking trips, beer, or, in France and Italy, wine in moderation.

There was one sterile period: only one poem is dated between 1872 and 1882 and, except for the poems written on the trip to Italy in 1887, very few from 1882 to 1890.

The old woman had a nephew from North Italy, a poor boy from a lumber mill who had got tired of the seasonal unemployment, and who had migrated to Canada to work on the railway.

Cousin Emma had simply put Miss Theresa Stubblefield, Rome, Italy, on the envelope, had walked up to the post office in Tuxapoka, Alabama, and mailed it with as much confidence as if it had been a birthday card to her next-door neighbor.

This letter would have got to me if she hadn't even put Rome, Italy, on it.

Popes and sovereigns gradually encroached on the rights of the monks, until in Italy the pope had usurped the nomination of all abbots, and the king in France, with the exception of Cluny, Premontré and other houses, chiefs of their order.

The company travels on and lands on the western coast of Italy.

Her property was confiscated, she left Italy and on Agrippina's orders, she committed suicide.

Silanus committed suicide on the day that Agrippina married her uncle, and Calvina was exiled from Italy in early 49.

In 401 Alaric invaded Italy, but he was defeated by the Roman half-Vandal general Flavius Stilicho at Pollentia ( modern Pollenza ) on April 6, 402.

He had a lasting effect on Italy and the Pannonian Basin ; in the former his invasion marked the beginning of centuries of Lombard rule, and in the latter his defeat of the Gepids and his departure from Pannonia ended the dominance there of the Germanic peoples.

Neil Christie considers 150, 000 to be a realistic size, a number which would make the Lombards a more numerous force than the Ostrogoths on the eve of their invasion of Italy.

He enhanced this by bribing the German king Henry IV with 360, 000 gold pieces to attack the Normans in Italy, which forced the Normans to concentrate on their defenses at home in 1083 – 1084.

Henry's allegiance was to be the last example of Byzantine political control on peninsular Italy.

He became abbot of San Vicenzo on the Volturno in South Italy in the time of Desiderius, king of the Lombards.

Andrea Andreani ( 1540 – 1623 ) was an Italian engraver on wood, who was among the first printmakers in Italy to use chiaroscuro, which required multiple colours.

He returned to Italy with Ursicinus, when he was recalled by Constantius, and accompanied him on the expedition against Claudius Silvanus, who had been forced by the allegedly unjust accusations of his enemies into proclaiming himself emperor in Gaul.

* 1916 – World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.

This time, however, he did not return to France, dying while on his way back, probably at Savona in Italy, on 21 August 1271.

He lingered on the way in Italy and probably in Constantinople.

Volta was born in Como, Italy on 18 February 1745.

He discovered methane after reading a paper by Benjamin Franklin on " flammable air " and carefully searched for it in Italy.