Pinocchio

 

Pinocchio is the protagonist of the famous children's novel "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Lorenzini, known as Collodi, and is the story of a puppet who wants to become a child.

Its most famous and well-known feature is its nose that stretches out of all proportion when it tells lies. All Italian children have read this story: it is the most famous fable in Italy.

 

 Walt Disney made it into a cartoon movie.

   In the village of Collodi in Tuscany there is a park dedicated to him.  

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Pizza

The pizza is a salty gastronomic product that consists of a dough usually made of flour and water that is smoothed and seasoned with tomatoes and mozzarella and other ingredients, and then baked. It is originally from Neapolitan cuisine. Today, together with pasta, it is the most popular Italian food abroad. It is very, very good!!!!

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Pasta

The pasta is a food made with water and flour, or with flour and eggs (tagliatelle, tortellini…).

Pasta has got different shapes, it may be fresh or dry. In Italy you can use pasta as  a first dish and you can eat it seasoned with different types of sauces. 

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 Parmesan

The origins of Parmigiano Reggiano ( Parmesan) date back to medieval times.
It’s a cheese with hard pasta. It is one of the oldest chees produced today like it was eight centuries ago. It is  made by milk processing in large shapes. It is produced between Parma and Reggio Emilia.

In Italy is the best known cheese, used to make all our first pasta dishes more flavorful.

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Pompei

It is located near Naples and in Roman times it was a very important city.

 It was full of restaurants, bars, bakeries, carpenters, laundries, greengrocers and private houses.

In 79 a.C. it was completely destroyed by the eruption of the volcano Vesuvius. It was buried under a blanket of ash (five to seven meters). Even the inhabitants remained killed and were found petrified. Since the end of the eighteenth century the remains of the ancient Roman city have been brought to light:

paintings, mosaics, furnishings and buildings that have made it possible to reconstruct the lifestyle in Roman times.

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