...ROME
Rome is the capital of the Italian Republic.
It is the most populous and largest municipality in Italy and is among Europe’s major capitals in terms of the amount of terrain it covers.
HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL RICHES
It is the city with the highest concentration of historical and architectural riches in the world. Its historical centre, outlined by the enclosing Aurelian Walls, layering nearly three thousand years of antiquity, is an invaluable testimony to the European western world’s cultural, artistic and historical legacy and in 1980 it was, together with the Holy See’s property beyond the confines of the Vatican State as well as the Basilica of St. Paul outside the Walls, were added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List .
Rome, the heart of Catholic Christianity, is the only city in the world to host an entire foreign state within its confines, the enclave of the Vatican City, and it is for this very reason that it is often referred to as the capital of two States.
Some places of interest for example are Colosseo, Pantheon, Fori Imperiali and Musei Vaticani.
SPORTS
Rome hosted the 1960 Olympic Games and is an official candidate to host them again in 2020. The Italian capital has also been the venue for the finals of two footballs World Cups (1934 and 1990). Between 18th July and 2nd August 2009 the city was host to the XIII World Swimming Championships and has on three occasions been the final stage of the Giro d’Italia (1950, 1989 and 2009, as well one of the sites of the games of the NBA Europe Live Tour (2006 and 2007).
Every year in spring the Rome Marathon is run here, which is rated by a number of running magazines to be the top city marathon in the world.