Italian Food and Sightseeing Jared Campbell English 10 CP

Meals  Main meal midday- evening  Northerners eat flat pasta-ribbon  Southerners round pasta-tube  Northern Italians- butter  Southern Italians- Olive Oil

Bean and Pasta Salad- Southern Italy

Order of the meals  Pasta or soup  Meat or fish and a vegetable  Green salad  Dessert

Breakfast in Italy  Italian do not eat much breakfast  May have bread and coffee  Very few restaurants open for breakfast

Bread  Most meals are served with bread  Bread and Italy go together as a pair  Average Italians consume ½ Lb.- a day  Over 350 Bread types in Italy

Wine  Important part of the meal  No drinking age  Lunch and Dinner both  More wine than any other country

Attractions in Italy  Sistine Chapel –Painted by Michelangelo  Wanted to Paint the 12 Apostles- said it would not be grand enough  Ceiling –9 episodes from Genesis-central part of the ceiling

Sistine Chapel- Building

Sistine Chapel

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Attractions Continued  Basilica –Michelangelo main designer –Holds up to 60,000 people –Had many artists –Pieta Sculpture, Cathedra Petri

The Basilica in Rome

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