Rome is the capital of Italy and the capital it
is also the country's largest and most populated comune and fourth-most
populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. Between
3.2 and 3.7 million people live in the Rome metropolitan area The city is
located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber
River within the Lazio region of Italy.
Rome's history spans two and a half thousand
years. It was the capital city of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and the
Roman Empire, which was the dominant power in Western Europe and the lands
bordering the Mediterranean for over seven hundred years from the 1st century
BC until the 7th century AD and the city is regarded as one of the birthplaces
of western civilization.
One of the symbols of Rome is the Colosseum
(70–80 AD), the largest amphitheatre ever built in the Roman Empire.
it was used for gladiatorial combat. A list of
important monuments and sites of ancient Rome includes the Roman Forum, the
Domus Aurea, the Pantheon, Trajan's Column, Trajan's Market, the Catacombs, the
Circus Maximus, the Baths of Caracalla, Castel Sant'Angelo, the Mausoleum of
Augustus, the Ara Pacis, the Arch of Constantine, the Pyramid of Cestius, and
the Bocca della Verità.
