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• Rome

“As soon as you enter Rome, get in a carriage and ask
to be brought to the Colosseum or to St.Peter’s.
If you try to get there on foot, you will never arrive:
too many marvelous things will stop you along the way.”
Stendhal

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,705,317 residents. It is located in the central-western portion of the Italian peninsula, on the Tiber river. Rome's history as a city spans over two and a half thousand years, as one of the founding cities of Western Civilization.
Even outside of the history of the Roman Empire, Rome has a significant place in the story of Christianity up to the present day, for it endures as the home of the papacy.
The worldwide Roman Catholic Church is administered from the Vatican City, run by the Holy See as an independent enclave and the world's smallest sovereign state.
Today, Rome is a modern, cosmopolitan city, and the third most-visited tourist destination in the European Union. Due to its influence in politics, media, the arts and culture, Rome has been described as a global city. As one of the few major European cities that escaped World War II relatively unscathed, central Rome remains essentially Renaissance and
Baroque in character.