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Rome city overview
Rome is a city in Italy shaped by its region, population, local economy, landmarks, climate and civic history. This overview summarizes the city itself: where it sits, what defines it, which places anchor its identity and why it matters within the wider country.
City facts
Airport baseRome Fiumicino (FCO)
Known forRome, Capital city of Italy, Rome planning base 3, Rome planning base 4
Population~2.7Mcity context
RegionItalyItaly
Time zoneEurope/Romelocal time
Founded192historical origin
City history
In 192, emperor Commodus renamed the city Colonia Lucia Annia Commodiana after himself.
Strabo also writes that Lucius Coelius Antipater believed that Rome was founded by Greeks. Monarchy and republic After the foundation by Romulus (according to a legend), Rome was ruled for a period of 244.
In 330, he transformed Byzantium into Constantinople, which became his new capital.
Christianity in the form of the Nicene Creed became the official religion of the empire in 380, via the Edict of Thessalonica issued in the name of three emperors – Gratian, Valentinian II, and.
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476, Rome was first under the control of Odoacer and then became part of the Ostrogothic Kingdom before returning to East Roman control after.
In 509 BC, the Romans expelled the last king from their city and established an oligarchic republic led by two annually elected consuls.
Rome then became the focus of hopes of Italian reunification after the rest of Italy was united as the Kingdom of Italy in 1861 with the temporary capital in Florence.
In 1871 the capital of Italy was moved from Florence to Rome.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus states that the lagobolon was a symbol of the settlement of the city of Rome, and recounts that following the destruction by fire of a sacred hut of Mars on the.
Several excavations support the view that Rome grew from pastoral settlements on the Palatine Hill built above the area of the future Roman Forum.
Despite recent excavations at the Palatine hill, the view that Rome was founded deliberately in the middle of the eighth century BC, as the legend of Romulus suggests, remains a fringe hypothesis. Legend of.
In this period the city was also shattered by continuous fights between the aristocratic families: Annibaldi, Caetani, Colonna, Orsini, Conti, nested in their fortresses built above ancient Roman edifices, fought each other to control.
Majestic works, as the new Saint Peter's Basilica, the Sistine Chapel and Ponte Sisto (the first bridge to be built across the Tiber since antiquity, although on Roman foundations) were created.
Raphael, who in Rome became one of the most famous painters of Italy, created frescoes in the Villa Farnesina, the Raphael's Rooms, plus many other famous paintings.
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Rome
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Capital city of Italy
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Stay overview
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Hotels & areas
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Rome Fiumicino (FCO) arrival plan
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Rental cars
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Best time to visit
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Transport notes
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Crowds
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