List of cultural icons of Italy

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Flag of Italy
Capitoline Wolf
SPQR, Aquila
Lion of Saint Mark
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Michelangelo's David

Raphael's The School of Athens
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa
Mount Etna
Pompeii
Venice
Colosseum
Tower of Pisa
Pizza
Spaghetti
Cappuccino
Dante Alighieri
Christopher Columbus
Galileo Galilei
Giuseppe Verdi
Federico Fellini
Pinocchio
Commedia dell'arte
La Scala
Fiat 500
Vespa

The List of cultural icons of Italy is a list of links to potential cultural icons of Italy.[1][2]

Art[]

  • Gian Lorenzo Bernini
  • Sandro Botticelli
  • Caravaggio
  • Donatello
  • Fra Angelico
  • Pietro Cascella[3]
  • Giorgio de Chirico
  • Giotto
  • Luciano Fabro[4]
  • Amedeo Modigliani
  • Raphael
  • Leonardo da Vinci,[5][6][7] Mona Lisa
  • Michelangelo, David[8]
  • Tintoretto
  • Titian[9][10]

Buildings[]

  • Arena di Verona[11][12]
  • Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence
  • Castel Nuovo, Naples
  • Colosseum[13][14]
  • Duomo di Milano
  • Faro di Genova
  • Grand Canal (Venice)
  • Mole Antonelliana, Turin
  • Palazzo Madama, Palazzo Montecitorio in Rome
  • Ponte Vecchio, Florence
  • St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican
  • Sistine Chapel, Vatican
  • Tower of Pisa[15]
  • Two Towers, Bologna

Dress and fashion[]

Emblems[]

Festivals, holidays[]

Food and beverages[]

History and legend[]

Industry, science[]

  • Agnelli family[32]
  • Giovanni Domenico Cassini
  • Enrico Fermi[33]
  • Leonardo Fibonacci
  • Galileo Galilei[34]
  • Rita Levi-Montalcini
  • Guglielmo Marconi[35][36]
  • Antonio Meucci
  • Alessandro Volta
  • Leonardo da Vinci

Literature, comics, press[]

  • Dante Alighieri[37]
  • Gabriele d'Annunzio
  • Ludovico Ariosto
  • Giovanni Boccaccio
  • Giordano Bruno
  • Italo Calvino
  • Giosuè Carducci
  • Corriere della Sera
  • Grazia Deledda
  • Divina Commedia*
  • Umberto Eco
  • Dario Fo[38]
  • Giacomo Leopardi
  • Niccolò Machiavelli
  • Alessandro Manzoni
  • Francesco Petrarca
  • Luigi Pirandello[39]
  • Salvatore Quasimodo
  • La Stampa
  • Italo Svevo
  • Torquato Tasso
  • Giuseppe Ungaretti

Music[]

  • Tomaso Albinoni,[40] Arena di Verona[41]
  • Vincenzo Bellini, Luciano Berio, Luigi Boccherini, Andrea Bocelli,[42] Ferruccio Busoni
  • Cantautore, "Il Canto degli Italiani", Canzone Napoletana, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Adriano Celentano, Luigi Cherubini, Domenico Cimarosa, Arcangelo Corelli, Franco Corelli, Paolo Conte
  • Fabrizio De André, Francesco De Gregori, Gaetano Donizetti, Lucio Dalla
  • Ivano Fossati, Florentine Camerata
  • Andrea Gabrieli, Giovanni Gabrieli, Beniamino Gigli, Tito Gobbi, Francesco Guccini
  • Goblin
  • Italian opera
  • Italo disco[43]
  • Lacuna Coil
  • Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Pietro Mascagni, Gian Carlo Menotti, Mina, Domenico Modugno,[44] Claudio Monteverdi, Ennio Morricone
  • Luigi Nono
  • 'O sole mio[45]
  • Niccolo Paganini, Giovanni Palestrina, Luciano Pavarotti,[46] Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Maurizio Pollini, Giacomo Puccini[47]
  • Ottorino Respighi, Gioacchino Rossini, Nino Rota
  • Sanremo Music Festival, La Scala, Alessandro Scarlatti, Domenico Scarlatti, Renata Scotto, Giuseppe di Stefano[48]
  • Renata Tebaldi, Arturo Toscanini
  • Umbria Jazz Festival
  • Venice Festival of Contemporary Music, Giuseppe Verdi, Antonio Vivaldi[49]

People[]

  • Agnelli family, Giulio Andreotti, Giorgio Armani, Massimo d'Azeglio
  • Giacomo Agostini[50]
  • Benetton family, Roberto Benigni, Enrico Berlinguer, Silvio Berlusconi,[51]
  • Gino Bartali[52]
  • Camillo Benso di Cavour, Christopher Columbus
  • Fausto Coppi[52]
  • Federico Fellini, Enzo Ferrari, Michele Ferrero
  • Galileo Galilei, Valentino Garavani,[53] Giuseppe Garibaldi,[31] Alcide De Gasperi
  • John XXIII
  • Marco Pantani[54]
  • Leonardo da Vinci, Sophia Loren
  • Michelangelo Buonarroti, Aldo Moro,[55] Benito Mussolini[56]
  • Padre Pio,[57] Romano Prodi,[58] Emilio Pucci, Miuccia Prada[19]
  • Valentino Rossi[59]
  • Saint Francis, Vittorio De Sica
  • Palmiro Togliatti

Places[]

  • Adriatic Sea, Amalfi, Ancona, Aosta Valley, Apennine Mountains, Arezzo
  • Bari, Bergamo, Bologna, Bolzano, Brescia[60][61]
  • Calabria, Capri, Catania, Como
  • Elba, Emilia-Romagna, Mount Etna[62][63]
  • Ferrara, Florence, Friuli-Venezia Giulia
  • Genoa
  • Ionian Sea
  • La Spezia, Lake Como, Lake Garda, Lazio, Liguria, Ligurian Sea, Livorno, Lombardy, Lucca
  • Mantua, Marche, Mediterranean Sea, Messina, Milan, Modena
  • Naples
  • Padua, Palatine Hill,[64] Palermo, Parma, Perugia, Pisa
  • Ravenna, Rimini, Rome
  • Sanremo, Sardinia, Sicily, Siena,[21] Sorrento, South Tyrol, St Mark's Square,[65] Stromboli
  • Trentino, Trento, Treviso, Trieste, Turin, Tuscany, Tyrrhenian Sea
  • Udine, Umbria
  • Veneto, Venice,[66][67][68] Verona, Vesuvius,[69] Vicenza

Shopping, money[]

Sport[]

Television, radio, film, theatre[]

  • Michelangelo Antonioni,[78] Dario Argento
  • Roberto Benigni,[79] Bernardo Bertolucci, Rossano Brazzi
  • Claudia Cardinale, Liliana Cavani, Cinecittà,[80] Commedia dell'arte,[81][82]
  • Eleonora Duse
  • Federico Fellini, Gabriele Ferzetti, Dario Fo[81][82]
  • Luca Guadagnino
  • Italian futurism, Italian neorealism
  • Alberto Sordi
  • Vittorio Gassman
  • Sergio Leone, Virna Lisi, Gina Lollobrigida, Sophia Loren
  • Anna Magnani, Silvana Mangano, Elsa Martinelli, Giulietta Masina, Marcello Mastroianni, Mario Monicelli, Nanni Moretti, Ornella Muti
  • Ermanno Olmi
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ugo Pirro,[83] Moana Pozzi
  • RAI, Raiuno, Raidue, Raitre, Franca Rame, Dino Risi,[84] Alice Rohrwacher, Isabella Rossellini, Roberto Rossellini,[85] Eleonora Rossi Drago[86]
  • Vittorio de Sica
  • Ugo Tognazzi, Giuseppe Tornatore
  • Rudolph Valentino, Alida Valli, Venice Film Festival,[87] Luchino Visconti, Monica Vitti
  • Lina Wertmüller

Transport[]

See also[]

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