Brindisi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈbrindizi]; in the local dialect: Brìnnisi; Latin: Brundisium) is a city in the region of Apulia in southern Italy, the capital of the province of Brindisi, off the coast of the Adriatic Sea. Historically, the city has played an important role in trade and culture, due to its strategic position on the Italian Peninsula and its natural port on the Adriatic Sea. The city remains a major port for trade with Greece and the Middle East. Brindisi's most flourishing industries include agriculture, chemical works, and the generation of electricity.
Brindisi is situated on a natural harbor, that penetrates deeply into the Adriatic coast of Apulia. Within the arms of the outer harbor islands are Pedagne, a tiny archipelago, currently not open and in use for military purposes (United Nations Group Schools used during the intervention in Bosnia). The entire municipality is part of the Brindisi Plain, characterized by high agricultural uses of its land. It is located in the northeastern part of the Salento plains, about 40 kilometres (25 mi) from the Itria Valley, and the low Murge. Not far from the city is the Natural Marine Reserve of the World Wide Fund for Nature of Torre Guaceto. The Ionian Sea is about 45 kilometres (28 mi) away.
A brindisi (pronounced [ˈbrindizi]; Italian for "toast") is a song in which a company is exhorted to drink, a drinking song.
The word is Italian, but it derives from an old German phrase, (ich) bringe dir's – "(I) offer it to you", which at one time was used to introduce a toast. The transformation of that phrase into the current Italian word may have been influenced by similar-sounding name of the Italian city of Brindisi, but otherwise the city and the term are etymologically unrelated.
The term brindisi is often used in opera. Typically, in an operatic brindisi, one character introduces a toast with a solo melody and the full ensemble later joins in the refrain.
Some well-known operatic numbers labeled brindisi are:
Brindisi is a town of Apulia, southern Italy.
The word, meaning "Toast" in Italian, may also refer to:
well you can't blame me if i think that my time is wasted she left me for the coast to see if she could meet oasis to all my homies on the west coast well i've got a tip for you if you see that girl you tell her what she can do i'm searching far and wide to find a girl who will understand me it's only been two months and now i'm sitting here with oprah winfrey to all my homies on the west coast well i've got a tip for you if you see that girl you tell her what she can do it was a brunette summer ten to one i lose that girl. i wasn't taking any bets now i wish i had another girl. i wasn't taking any bets and now i know. it was a brunette summer gotta find another girl. now to the top of the charts thats where i gotta go to get my heart back. and if i get there quick shes gonna have herself a heart attack. to all my homies on the west coast well i've got a tip for you. if you see that girl you tell her what she can do. it was a brunette summer ten to one i lose that girl i wasn't taking any bets now i wish i had another girl i wasn't taking any bets and now i know. it was a brunette summer gotta find another girl.