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Rome (Italian and Latin: Roma) is the capital city of Italy, and the country's largest and most populous comune, with about 2,5 millions residents (3,8 millions considering the whole urbanised area, as represented by the Province of Rome). Capital of the Lazio region of central-eastern Italy, Rome is located across the confuence of the river Aniene into the Tiber. With a gross domestic product of €97 billion in the year 2005, the comune of Rome produced 6.7% of Italy's GDP, which is the highest proportion of GDP produced by any single Italian comune. The current Mayor of Rome is Walter Veltroni.

 

 

Rome and the Roman Colosseum gladiator games theatre

 

Roman Coloseum

 

 

Founded on April 21, 753 BC by the twins Romulus and Remus, according to legend, Rome was once the capital of the Roman Empire, the most powerful, largest and longest-lasting empire of classical Western civilisation; after the Western Roman Empire fell in 476, it became the seat of the Pope and centre of the Catholic Church, as well as capital of the Papal States. Rome was conquered by the newly unified Kingdom of Italy in 1870, witnessed the rise of Italian fascism, and finally became capital of the current Italian Republic and one of the largest cities of the European Union. The Vatican City is still contained as a sovereign enclave within the city territory.

 

Rome, whose city centre is a UNESCO world heritage site hosting some of the world's best known works of art and monuments, is also called "la Città Eterna" (the Eternal City), "l'Urbe" (Latin for "the City" as an antonomasia) and "la città dei sette colli" ("the city of the seven hills").

 

 

LINKS and REFERENCE

  1. http://demo.istat.it/pop2005 - ISTAT demographics

  2. http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/91 - Entry about Rome on the official website of the UNESCO World Heritace Centre

  3. http://www.demauroparavia.it/125134 - De Mauro Paravia entry on "Urbe"

  4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/city_guides/results.shtml?tt=TT004000 - Entry on Rome on BBC Weather website.

  5. http://www.comune.roma.it/was/wps/portal/Walter_Veltroni/ - Personal profile on the official website of the Comune di Roma

  6. http://www.infrastrutturetrasporti.it/page/standard/site.php?p=cm&o=vh&id=146 - Roma Capitale on the official website of the Italian Ministry for Infrastructures and Transportation

  7. http://www.camera.it/_dati/leg14/lavori/stampati/sk4000/articola/3885.htm - Proposal of Constitutional Law on the official website of the Camera dei Deputati

  8. http://demo.istat.it/strasa2005/ - ISTAT demographics

  9. http://www.comune.roma.it/was//ContentManagement//Consiglieri_Aggiunti.pdf - Informative brochure on the official website of the Comune di Roma

  10. http://www.comune.roma.it/was/wps/portal/!ut/p/s.7_0_del_portale/Municipi/ - List of Municipi and definition of their territories on the official website of the Comune di Roma

  11. http://www.difesa.it/SMD/COI/La+sede.htm - Entry about the Centocelle Airport in the official website of the Italian Ministero della Difesa

  12. http://eurostar-av.trenitalia.com/progetto/stazioni_rinnovate/roma_tiburtina.html - Entry on Roma Tiburtina station on the official website of the Italian high-speed rail service (in Italian)

  13. http://www.liberazione.it/giornale/051129/LB12D6D0.asp - Short newspaper article on the Rome / Achacachi twinning

 

 

 

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