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Popular Places In Italy

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About Italy

Italy, a European country with a long Mediterranean coastline, has left a powerful mark on Western culture and cuisine. Its capital, Rome, is home to the Vatican as well as landmark art and ancient ruins. Other major cities include Florence, with Renaissance masterpieces such as Michelangelo’s "David" and Brunelleschi's Duomo; Venice, the city of canals; and Milan, Italy’s fashion capital. The Italic tribe known as the Latins formed the Roman Kingdom, which eventually became a republic that conquered and assimilated other nearby civilisations. Rome ultimately emerged as the dominant power in the Mediterranean basin, conquering much of the ancient world and becoming the leading cultural, political and religious centre of Western civilisation. The legacy of the Roman Empire is widespread and can be observed in the global distribution of civilian law, republican governments, Christianity and the Latin script. After various unsuccessful attempts, the Italian Wars of Independence and the Expedition of the Thousand resulted in the eventual unification of the country in 1861, now a great power after centuries of foreign domination and political division. From the late 19th century to the early 20th century, the new Kingdom of Italy rapidly industrialised, although mainly in the north, and acquired a colonial empire, while the south remained largely impoverished and excluded from industrialisation, fuelling a large and influential diaspora. Today, Italy has the third largest economy in the Eurozone and the eighth largest in the world. With 50.7 million tourists a year (2015), Italy is the fifth most visited country in international tourism. People mainly visit Italy for its art, cuisine, history, fashion and culture, its coastline and beaches, its mountains, and ancient monuments. The Roman Empire, Middle Ages, and renaissance have left many cultural artifacts for the Italian tourist industry to use. Many northern cities are also able to use the Alps as an attraction for winter sports, while coastal southern cities have the Mediterranean Sea to draw tourists looking for sun. Italy is also home to fifty-one UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the most in the world. Rome is the third most visited city in Europe with an average of 7–10 million tourists a year.

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Jewish History, POI & Kosher Establishments in Italy

Italian Jews can be traced back as far as the second century BCE, tombstones and dedicatory inscriptions from this period still survive today. It is the only Jewish community in Europe dating back to before the Diaspora era. Italian Jews have very different ancestry, with the main strands represented today being Italian, Sephardic, Ashkenazi, Persian and Libyan Jews. The 30,000 Jews in Italy form a thriving community, which is concentrated in the major cities Rome, Milan, Turin, Florence and Leghorn (Livorno). Interest in Jewish culture is wide-spread among the wider Italian population, though knowledge about Judaism is often quite limited. Kosher food is available in the main cities that have a large community. Italy's widely dispersed Jewish community has, at different periods of its long history, been present in scores of cities and towns across the country. Italian Jewry today is concentrated in Rome (15,000) and Milan (10,000). Smaller communities exist in Turin (1,600), Florence (1,400), and Livorno/Leghorn (1,000). A few hundred Jews each are also organized in Bologna, Genoa, Trieste, and Venice, and smaller numbers of Jews are found in Alessandria, Ancona, Asti, Casale Monferrato, Ferrara, Gorizia, Mantua, Merano, Modena, Naples, Padua, Parma, Perugia, Pisa, Siena, Spezia, Vercelli, Verona, and Viareggio. Italian Jewry was notably bolstered by the arrival some 3,000 Jews from Libya in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1516, 700 Jews of Venice were forced to move to a then-remote northwestern corner of Venice, an abandoned site of a 14th-century foundry where the first ghetto was build. The word ghetto, soon used throughout Europe for isolated minority groups, originated in Venice: in the local dialect of that time it meant “foundry”. For the Jews of Italy, the sense of equality and emancipation was brutally quashed during the Fascist period (1922-43), when Benito Mussolini ruled as il duce. Since that time, the synagogues and their communities – where they managed to survive – returned to the lesser, pre-Emancipation dimensions. Except for the Community of Leghorn, no major synagogue has been built in Italy since the end of World War II.

There are many kosher restaurants in Rome and kosher restaurants can be found in cities throughout the country, such as Naples, Milan, Florence, Venice and Tuscany. There are a number of kosher hotels that operate in northern Italy. There are very popular Pesach programs in Italy and throughout Europe.

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What Is *JOFY?

JOFY, or "Jewish Observant Friendly" Establishments are lodging establishments offering special services for Jewish Observant guests such as Shabbat meals, accommodation on lower floors and regular keys for the rooms. It can also be a NON KOSHER establishment located in walking distance from the local Shul, community or kosher restaurants area.

Please note - *JOFY does NOT mean that KOSHER food is served on the premises!

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