My next stop is the gulf of Genoa. It is at the highest point in the Ligurian sea. The capital is Venice and Switzerland, Slovenia, France, and Austria border it. Bdies of water around it are the Adriatic, Ionian, and Tyrrhenian seas. The climate of italy is humid and subtropical, and Italy looks like a big peninsula. For a long while Italy was conquered by the Romans but then it became a democratic nation and still is today.