Cultural heritage cultural-heritage-new | Página 54

‘Founded, according to legend, by
Romulus and Remus in 753 BC, Rome
was first the centre of the Roman
Republic, then of the Roman Empire,
and it became the capital of the
Christian world in the 4th century. The
World Heritage site, extended in 1990
to the walls of Urban VIII, includes
some of the major monuments of
antiquity such as the Forums, the
Mausoleum of Augustus, the
Mausoleum of Hadrian, the Pantheon,
Trajan’s Column and the Column of
Marcus Aurelius, as well as the
religious and public buildings of papal
Rome.’
Historic Center of Rome