List of cultural icons of Italy

Flag of Italy

Capitoline Wolf

Michelangelo's David

The School of Athens

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.

Colosseum

Tower of Pisa

Pizza

Cappuccino

Christopher Columbus.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Lion of Saint Mark

Galileo Galilei

Dante Alighieri

Giuseppe Verdi

Federico Fellini

Mount Etna

Pompeii

Venice

Pinocchio

La Scala

Commedia dell'arte

Frecce Tricolori.

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]
• Raphael
• Leonardo da Vinci,^[5][6][7] Mona Lisa
• Michelangelo, Michelangelo's 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

• Armani^[16]
• Benetton
• Roberto Cavalli
• Dolce & Gabbana
• Ferragamo^[17]
• Gianfranco Ferré^[18]
• Gucci
• Krizia
• Luxottica
• Prada
• Pucci^[19]
• Valentino
• Versace^[20]

Emblems

• Flag of Italy, Il Tricolore, bandiera italiana
• Il Canto degli Italiani, (Inno di Mameli)
• Italia Turrita, national personification of Italy
• Emblema della Repubblica italiana, emblem of Italy
• Stella d’Italia, white star five tips that for many centuries represented the Italian land
• Coccarda italiana tricolore, Italian tricolor cockade
• Stendardo presidenziale italiano, banner of the President of Italy
• Il Vittoriano, Altar of the Motherland
• Festa della Repubblica, Birth of the Italian Republic
• Corbezzolo, national plant

Festivals, holidays

• Agriturismo
• Calcio storico
• Carnival of Venice
• Ferragosto
• Varia di Palmi, Palmi
• Palio di Siena^[21]
• Regata Storica, Venice^[22]
• Sanremo Music Festival

Food and beverages

• Arancini^[23]
• Cannoli^[24]
• Cappuccino^[25]
• Espresso
• Lasagna^[26]
• Olive oil^[27]
• Parma ham
• Parmigiano
• Pasta^[26]
• Pizza^[28]
• Polenta ^[29]
• Salami^[30]
• Spaghetti^[26]
• Wine

History and legend

• Ancient Rome
• Camillo Cavour
• Etruscans
• Giuseppe Garibaldi^[31]
• Renaissance
• Risorgimento

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*
• 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
• Italian opera
• Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Pietro Mascagni, Gian Carlo Menotti, Mina, Domenico Modugno,^[43] Claudio Monteverdi, Ennio Morricone
• Luigi Nono
• O sole mio^[44]
• Niccolo Paganini, Giovanni Palestrina, Luciano Pavarotti,^[45] Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Maurizio Pollini, Giacomo Puccini^[46]
• Ottorino Respighi, Gioacchino Rossini
• Sanremo Music Festival, La Scala, Alessandro Scarlatti, Domenico Scarlatti, Renata Scotto, Giuseppe di Stefano^[47]
• Renata Tebaldi, Arturo Toscanini
• Umbria Jazz Festival
• Venice Festival of Contemporary Music, Giuseppe Verdi, Antonio Vivaldi^[48]

People

• Agnelli family, Giulio Andreotti, Giorgio Armani, Massimo d'Azeglio
• Benetton family, Roberto Benigni, Enrico Berlinguer, Silvio Berlusconi,^[49] Emma Bonino
• Camillo Benso di Cavour
• Federico Fellini, Enzo Ferrari, Michele Ferrero
• Galileo Galilei, Valentino Garavani,^[50] Giuseppe Garibaldi,^[31] Alcide De Gasperi
• John XXIII
• Leonardo da Vinci, Sophia Loren
• Michelangelo Buonarroti, Aldo Moro,^[51] Benito Mussolini^[52]
• Padre Pio,^[53] Romano Prodi,^[54] Emilio Pucci, Miuccia Prada^[19]
• Saint Francis, Vittorio De Sica
• Palmiro Togliatti

Places

• Adriatic Sea, Amalfi, Ancona, Aosta Valley, Apennine Mountains, Arezzo
• Bari, Bergamo, Bologna, Bolzano, Brescia^[55][56]
• Calabria, Capri, Catania, Como
• Elba, Emilia-Romagna, Mount Etna^[57][58]
• 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,^[59] Palermo, Parma, Perugia, Pisa
• Ravenna, Rimini, Rome
• Sanremo, Sardinia, Sicily, Siena,^[21] Sorrento, South Tyrol, St Mark's Square,^[60] Stromboli
• Trentino, Trento, Treviso, Trieste, Turin, Tuscany, Tyrrhenian Sea
• Udine, Umbria
• Veneto, Venice,^[61][62][63] Verona, Vesuvius,^[64] Vicenza

Shopping, money

• Lira
• La Rinascente

Sport

• Mille Miglia^{[56][65][66][67][68]}
• Palio di Siena^[21]
• Calcio^[69]
• Calcio fiorentino
• Catenaccio
• Juventus F.C.^[70][71][72]
• Italian national football team^[73]
• Zona mista

Television, radio, film, theatre

• Michelangelo Antonioni,^[74] Dario Argento
• Roberto Benigni,^[75] Bernardo Bertolucci, Rossano Brazzi
• Claudia Cardinale, Cinecittà,^[76] Commedia dell'arte,^[77][78]
• Eleonora Duse
• Federico Fellini, Gabriele Ferzetti, Dario Fo^[77][78]
• 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
• Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ugo Pirro,^[79] Moana Pozzi
• RAI, Raiuno, Raidue, Raitre, Franca Rame, Dino Risi,^[80] Isabella Rossellini, Roberto Rossellini,^[81] Eleonora Rossi Drago^[82]
• Vittorio de Sica
• Ugo Tognazzi, Giuseppe Tornatore
• Alida Valli, Venice Film Festival,^[83] Luchino Visconti, Monica Vitti

Transport

• Agusta, Alfa Romeo, Alitalia,^[84] Ansaldo, Aprilia, Azimuth
• Benetton Formula, Beretta, Bianchi, Bottecchia
• Ducati
• Ferrari,^[85] Ferretti, Fiat, Fiat 500,^[86] Fiat Panda
• Iveco
• Lamborghini^[87] Lancia, Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport
• Malpensa International Airport, Venice Marco Polo Airport, Maserati, Moto Guzzi
• Navigli
• Pagani, Piaggio, Andrea Pininfarina,^[88] Pendolino
• Riva
• Vespa

See also

• Culture of Italy

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