It is the only country that has two completely surrounded by its own territory States: Vatican City and San Marino.
The language spoken in contemporary Italy is the great Florentine, which is a Tuscan dialect, which in turn comes from Latin.
In Italy many dialects. These include, Franco-Provençal, Friulian, the sassarés, and several variants of the Albanian, German, Catalan or Spanish.
There are about 15,000 Catalan-speakers on the island of Sardinia, the result of migration from Barcelona.