Time zone: GMT + 1 hour
Location: southern Europe, a peninsula extending down from Switzerland and Austria into the central Mediterranean Sea, northeast of Tunisia.
Capital: Rome
Currency: euro (currency code EUR)
Languages: Italian (official), parts of Trentino-Alto Adige region are predominantly German speaking, there is a small French-speaking minority in Valle d'Aosta region and a Slovene-speaking minority in the Trieste-Gorizia area. Business language: Italian
Airport authority contact information: Ente Nazionale per l´Aviazione Civile, Rome. Telephone: +39 06 4459 6200
Airports: In 2005 Italy had 134 airports, only 96 of which have paved runways, the most significant of which are:
Albenga Airport
Alghero Airport
Aviano Airport
Baccarini Airport
Bari-Palese Airport
Belluno Airport
Bergamo Airport
Bologna Airport
Bolzano Airport
Brindisi Airport
Cagliari Airport
Carpri Airport
Catania Fontanaros International
Ciampino Airport
Comiso Airport
Cortina d'ampezzo Fiames Airport
Crotone Airport
Decimomannu Airport
Falconara Airport
Florence Airport
Florence Novella Rr Airport
Galatina Airport
Galileo Galilei Airport
Genoa Airport
Gino Lisa Airport
Ischia Airport
Jesolo Airport
Lampedusa Airport
Levaldigi Airport
Lucca Airport
Luigi Ridolfi Airport
Marina Di Campo Airport
Marina Di Massa Airport
Milan Linate Airport
Milan Malpensa Airport
Milan Segrate Airport
Naples Airport
Naples Merglna Rr Airports
Olbia Airport
Palermo Airport
Pantelleria Airport
Parma Airport
Pescara Liberi Airport
Ravenna Airport
Rimini Airport
Rome Airport
S Eufemia Airport
Sant Egidio Airport
Siena Airport
Sora Airport
Sorrento Airport
Tito Menniti Airport
Treviso Airport
Udine Airport
Venice Airport
Verona Airport
Vicenza Airport
