Italy Crate
In this Atlas Crate, you can build a pizzeria automaton, paint a masterpiece, and explore Italy!
"Italy is a feast of travel adventures! Buon appetito!"
Explore:
- Automaton Engineering
- Design Transfer
- Venice
Fun Facts
photo by kuvona/shutterstock.com
- The Italian names for different pasta shapes can be a little unexpected. For example, spaghetti means strings, vermicelli means small worms, linguine means tiny tongues, and ravioli means little turnips!
Pasta
photo by Paolo Gallo/shutterstock.com
- In 2012, a team of chefs in Rome made the world's largest round pizza, measuring 131 feet across. The chefs named the pizza Ottavia, in honor of the first Roman emperor.
Pizza
photo by ChiccoDodiFC/shutterstock.com
- In Italian, gelato simply means frozen. The average Italian eats 100 scoops of the delicious stuff each year!
Gelato
Your library
Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer
written and illustrated by Robert Byrd
Discover more about the Italian painter, inventor, and philosopher, Leonardo da Vinci. This beautifully illustrated book reflects the richness and imagination of Leonardo’s own notebooks, making the master’s art, jokes, explorations, and inventions wonderfully vivid and accessible.
Get the book →
Stone Giant: Michelangelo’s David and How He Came to Be
written by Jane Sutcliffe, illustrated by John Shelley
This is the story of how a neglected, discarded stone became a masterpiece for all time when the Italian sculptor Michelangelo saw something — someone — special in the stone. Excellent illustrations and fascinating details bring the world of Renaissance Florence to life.
Get the book →
