Rome Guide - Locations In Italy

Rome is the capital of Italy. it is 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 3.8 million people live in the Rome urban and metropolitan area. The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber within the Lazio region of Italy. Rome is referred to as "The Eternal City", a notion expressed by ancient Roman poets and writers.

Rome has been ranked by GaWC in 2010 as a beta world city, as well as the 28th most important global city. In 2007, Rome was the 11th-most-visited city in the world, 3rd most visited in the European Union, and the most popular tourist attraction in Italy. The city is one of Europe's and the world's most successful city "brands", both in terms of reputation and assets. Its historic centre is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. Monuments and museums such as the Vatican Museums and the Colosseum are among the world's most visited tourist destinations with both locations receiving millions of tourists a year. Rome hosted the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Rome is an ancient city suffered a lot, a huge museum, always shaking up our various cognitive history and reality.

• Colosseum - A symbol of the Roman civilization, once the bloody arena has become a thing of the past, but took to the stands, as if still feel the brutal fighting and fight here between man and beast.
• Roman Forum - Once the bright shining center of the Roman Republic, has now become a place of artists and architects are looking for inspiration, the legacy of a historic building in the Square is the best material for interpretation of the ancient Roman civilization.
• Spanish Plaza - Piazza di Spagna is famous in the film "Roman Holiday", sat down on the steps and leisurely sun, eat the root ice cream, the comfort, however.
• Arco di Costantino - A magnificent Arc de Triomphe, in particular, it saved an important period of the Roman Empire sculpture, is a vivid Roman history of sculpture.
• Piazza Venezia - Venice Square is the largest square in Rome, the front is nicknamed the "wedding cake", "typewriter" constructed of white marble neoclassical building.
• Pantheon - Pantheon is a Roman masterpiece of architectural art, Michelangelo praise for the design of the "angel", the only one in the Roman Empire building is still intact.
• Thermae of Caracalla - Once the Baths of Caracalla can be described as extremely luxurious, his builder is notorious, the bloodthirsty tyrant Caracalla.