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Rome

is an Italian town of 2,744,931 inhabitants, the capital of the province of Rome, the Lazio region and capital of the Italian Republic.

It is the most populous municipality and largest in Italy and is the first common European size of the territory by definition, is defined by the City and the Eternal City.

During his three thousand years of history, was the first great metropolis of humanity, the heart of one of the most important ancient civilizations, which influenced society, culture, language, literature, art, architecture, philosophy , religion, law, customs of the following centuries, was the capital of the Roman Empire, which extended its rule over the whole Mediterranean basin and much of Europe, and the Papal States, subject to the temporal power of the Popes.

It is the city with the highest concentration of historical and architectural landmarks in the world, its old town bounded by the perimeter of the Aurelian walls, overlapping testimonies of almost three millennia, is an expression of historical, artistic and cultural world of Western Europe, and, in 1980, together with the Holy See extraterritorial property in the city and the basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Rome, the heart of Catholic Christianity, is the only city in the world to accommodate internally a foreign state, the enclave of Vatican City: for this reason it is often called the capital of two states

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