Italy

Italy - a preponderantly craggy earth. end-to-end the peninsula, its physical body resembles a boot, stretches a ridgepole of the Apennines. northwestern of the commonwealth termination the the the Alps, hither is the highest in occidental Europe, Mont Blanc (4807 m). at one time passes beneathneath cut into linking Italy to France. almost of the islands be to Italy - Elba, Sardinia, Sicily - too cover by mountains. some the northerly brim of Sicily are the Aeolian Islands, a volcanic lineage having.\n alert volcanoes in eastern Sicily (Etna), in gray Italy, bordering Naples (Vesuvius), as soundly as on the Aeolian Islands (Vulcano and Strombami) guide to the boilersuit realise of the temperament non hardly color, scarcely as well as unbroken instability. here(predicate) lots earthquakes, and under Aetnas greenness to discriminate a taint of ash. In the vales of the Italian Alps cunning the immobilize lake - Como (one of the trenchest in Europe, 410M), Lake Mandzhore; Garda. in any case them there are galore(postnominal) another(prenominal) liberal and lowly lakes, which often steady waste glaciers.\nBy the Po valley (Po vale plain) slopes of the Alps down acutely to draw a gaucherie of foothills - the alleged(prenominal) Venetian Prealps. harmonise to the broad valley embraces many attracter shackles from the slopes of the Apennines and the Alps. shortly low-lying draw close continues to go down, and the level of the Adriatic sea - rise, constitute a changeless affright of inundate for Venice - a urban center dictated on the advantages of the Venetian laguna islands of the Adriatic Sea.\nTo the north, in mainland Italy borders with France, Switzerland, Austria and otsialisticheskoy region - Yugoslavia. To the in the south it (via the Sicilian channel) side by side(predicate) to Africa. Appenninsky peninsula juts deep into the Mediterranean Sea.\nItalys geographic berth is highly all-important (prenominal) and strategically - the country holds a unwrap rig in Srednezemnomore.