Rome
Twenty-eight centuries stacked on one another
Photograph by Diliff on Wikimedia Commons
About Rome
Rome is the capital and most populated comune of Italy, the administrative centre of Lazio and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. Roma Capitale is a special comune of 2.7 million people across 1,287 square kilometres, making it the third most populous city in the European Union within its own limits. It is a city whose history spans twenty-eight centuries and sits on top of itself rather than beside itself, a Republican temple in a modern piazza, a medieval church over something older still. It rewards walking and punishes hurrying.
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