Rome

Rome, the 'Eternal City', is the capital and largest city of and of the region. It's the famed city of the Roman Empire, the Seven Hills, La Dolce Vita, the and Three Coins in the Fountain.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include North Centre and Old Rome.

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North Central Rome is a district that covers the areas around Piazza di Spagna, Piazza del Popolo and Parioli, as well as the magnificent Villa Borghese and its gardens.

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is the historic medieval and renaissance center of Rome. While the oldest section of Rome is at the , and the Modern Center has shifted to the Via Veneto, remains the city's most charming district, with lovely piazzas and streets to wander and find small cafes and restaurants.

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The of Rome, home to the Via Veneto, Quirinale, Castro Pretorio, Repubblica, and Trevi neighbourhoods, is the city's hub of activity, especially shopping and nightlife.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Vatican and Colosseo.

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City is the world's smallest country both by area and by population, and is the centre of Catholicism. This tiny country completely within Rome is packed with more history and artwork than most cities in the world, and indeed many countries.

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The district is the heart of ancient Rome and the Roman Empire. It has the Colosseum, the Forum, and the Capitoline Museum.

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The South of Rome includes the historic Appian Way and nearby catacombs, as well as important tourist attractions in EUR, and San Paolo.

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is a district in Rome. The district's name derives from the Latin words "Trans Tiberem": beyond the Tiber river. Today is one of the centers of Roman night life; rich in pubs, restaurants, clubs.

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Aventino and Testaccio are neighbourhoods of Rome. Aventino is named for the hill which rises up near the Tiber river and is one of the legendary seven hills of Rome.

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is a district of Rome. The San Lorenzo neighborhood is a student area south-east of Rome's main train station. It has a small street market, unpretentious caffès and is a major centre of Rome's night life.

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The North of Rome is comprised of Municipi III, XI-XV.

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Esquilino and San Giovanni are adjacent neighborhoods in Rome. Esquilino is named for the Esquiline hill on which it stands. It lies south of the Termini station and is centred more or less on the Piazza Vittorio Emmanuele II.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include St. Peter’s Basilica and Castel Sant’Angelo.

Church
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The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican, or simply St. Peter's Basilica, is a church of the Italian Renaissance located in , an independent microstate enclaved within the city of Rome, Italy.

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Castel Sant'Angelo, also known as Mausoleum of Hadrian, is a towering rotunda in , Rome, Italy. It was initially commissioned by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a mausoleum for himself and his family.

Square
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St. Peter's Square is a large plaza located directly in front of in , the papal enclave in Rome, directly west of the neighborhood of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Garbatella and Tor Pignattara.

Quarter
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is an urban zone of Rome. It belongs to the Municipio VIII of Rome comune, Italy, in the quarter of Rome. Its population counts nearly 45,000.

Quarter
is a district of Rome, . It is located in with an area of 2.27 km2. It has a population of 47,029. The name comes from the , who was the mother of Constantine.

Locality
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The , which is the centremost of the seven hills of Rome, is one of the most ancient parts of the city; it has been called "the first nucleus of the Roman Empire".

Rome

  • Type: City with 2,740,000 residents
  • Description: capital and largest city of Italy
  • Also known as: “A Cidade Eterna”, “Capital of the World”, “Caput Mundi”, “Città dei sette colli”, “Città di Roma”, “Città eterna”, “City of Marble”, “City of Seven Hills”, “ciutat eterna”, “D’Éiweg Stad”, “den eviga staden”, “Die Ewige Stadt”, “Eterna urbo”, “Eternal City”, “Hiri Betierekoa”, “Hiri Eternala”, “Kinh đô thế giới”, “l’Urbs”, “la ciá eterna”, “la cidá eterna”, “La Ciudad Eterna”, “La Mã”, “La ville aux sept collines”, “La ville éternelle”, “Mji wa Milele”, “Mji wa Milima Saba”, “Orașul celor șapte coline”, “Orașul etern”, “Prijestolnica svijeta”, “RM”, “Rom, Italiya”, “Roma”, “Rómaborg”, “Rome (ulohang dakbayan)”, “Rome, Italy”, “Rome, Yitale‎”, “Thành phố bảy ngọn đồi”, “Thành phố đài phun nước”, “Thành phố vĩnh hằng”, “The Capital of the World”, “The City of Marble”, “The Eternal City”, “Urbe”, “Urbs Aeterna”, “Urbs Marmorea”, “Vječni grad”, “Wěčne město”, “Wieczne Miasto”, “Вечити град”, “Вечни град”, “Вечны горад”, “Вечный город”, “Мәңгі қала”, “Римм”, “მარადიული ქალაქი”, “رومة”, “رومية”, “سات پہاڑیوں کا شہر”, “ߌߕߊߟߌ߫ ߙߐ߭ߡߎ߲߬”, “ߙߏߡߊ߫”, “ߞߟߎ߬ ߥߐߙߐ߲ߥߌ߬ߟߊ߫ ߦߋ߫ ߛߏߓߊ ߡߍ߲ ߞߣߐ߫”, “ߤߌ߲߯ ߛߏ”, “रोम्-नगरम्”, “চিরন্তন নগরী”, “রোমা”, “ரோம்”, “ꠞꠥꠝꠣ ꠘꠉꠞ”, “โรมา”, “ローマ市”, and “永遠の都”
  • Postal code: 00187
  • Neighbors: , , , and
  • Categories: border city, abolished municipality in Italy, tourist destination, metropolis, largest city, college town, big city, comune of Italy, national capital, and locality
  • Location: , , , ,
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Latitude
41.8933° or 41° 53′ 36″ north
Longitude
12.4829° or 12° 28′ 59″ east
Population
2,740,000
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
IATA airport code
ROM
United Nations Location Code
IT ROM
Open location code
8FHJVFVM+85
Open­Street­Map ID
node 72959652
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3169070
Wiki­data ID
Q220
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Rome” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Рим”
  • Achinese: “Roma”
  • Adyghe: “Ромэ”
  • Afrikaans: “Rome”
  • Albanian: “Roma”
  • Albanian: “Romë”
  • Amharic: “ሮማ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ῥώμη”
  • Angika: “रोम”
  • Arabic: “روما”
  • Aragonese: “Roma”
  • Armenian: “Հռոմ”
  • Arpitan: “Roma”
  • Assamese: “ৰোম”
  • Asturian: “Roma”
  • Avaric: “Рим”
  • Avaric: “Рум”
  • Awadhi: “रोम”
  • Aymara: “Roma”
  • Azerbaijani: “Roma”
  • Balinese: “Roma”
  • Bambara: “Rome”
  • Bashkir: “Рим”
  • Basque: “Erroma”
  • Batak Toba: “Rom”
  • Bavarian: “Rom”
  • Belarusian: “Рым”
  • Bengali: “রোম”
  • Betawi: “Roma”
  • Bhojpuri: “रोम”
  • Bislama: “Rome”
  • Bole: “Rum”
  • Bosnian: “Rim”
  • Breton: “Roma”
  • Bulgarian: “Рим”
  • Burmese: “ရောမမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Roma”
  • Cebuano: “Roma”
  • Central Bikol: “Roma”
  • Central Kanuri: “Rome”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕۆما”
  • Chamorro: “Roma”
  • Chavacano: “Roma”
  • Chechen: “Рум”
  • Cherokee: “ᎶᎻ”
  • Cheyenne: “Roma”
  • Chinese: “Luómǎ”
  • Chinese: “罗马”
  • Chinese: “罗马市”
  • Chinese: “羅馬/罗马”
  • Chinese: “羅馬”
  • Church Slavic: “Римъ”
  • Chuvash: “Рим”
  • Cornish: “Rom”
  • Corsican: “Roma”
  • Cree: “ᖌᒪ”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Roma”
  • Croatian: “Rim”
  • Czech: “Řím”
  • Dagbani: “Rome”
  • Danish: “Rom”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Roma”
  • Dotyali: “रोम”
  • Dutch: “Rome”
  • Eastern Mari: “Рим”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “روما”
  • Emilian: “Råmma”
  • Erzya: “Рим ош”
  • Esperanto: “Romo”
  • Estonian: “Rooma”
  • Ewe: “Rome”
  • Extremaduran: “Roma”
  • Faroese: “Róm”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Rome”
  • Fijian: “Rome”
  • Finnish: “Rooma”
  • French: “Rome”
  • Friulian: “Rome”
  • Fulah: “Rom”
  • Gagauz: “Roma”
  • Galician: “Roma”
  • Gan Chinese: “羅馬”
  • Ganda: “Rome”
  • Georgian: “რომი”
  • German: “Rom”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Rome”
  • Goan Konkani: “Rom”
  • Gothic: “𐍂𐌿𐌼𐌰/Ruma”
  • Gothic: “𐍂𐌿𐌼𐌰”
  • Greek: “Ρώμη”
  • Guarani: “Rróma”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Ròm”
  • Gujarati: “રોમ”
  • Haitian: “Ròm”
  • Haitian: “Wòm”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Lò-mâ”
  • Hausa: “Roma”
  • Hausa: “Rum”
  • Hawaiian: “Loma”
  • Hebrew: “רומא”
  • Hindi: “रोम”
  • Hungarian: “Róma”
  • Icelandic: “Róm”
  • Ido: “Roma”
  • Iloko: “Roma”
  • Inari Sami: “Rooma”
  • Indonesian: “Roma”
  • Ingush: “Рим”
  • Ingush: “Рум”
  • Interlingua: “Roma”
  • Interlingue: “Roma”
  • Inuktitut: “ᕉᒥ”
  • Irish: “an Róimh”
  • Irish: “An Róimh”
  • Italian: “Roma”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Ruom”
  • Japanese: “ローマ”
  • Javanese: “Roma”
  • Jèrriais: “Rome”
  • Kabardian: “Ромэ (Къалэ)”
  • Kabardian: “Ромэ”
  • Kabiyè: “Roma”
  • Kabiyè: “Room”
  • Kabyle: “Roma”
  • Kalaallisut: “Roma”
  • Kannada: “ರೋಮ”
  • Kannada: “ರೋಮ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Rim”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Rome”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Рим”
  • Kashmiri: “روم”
  • Kashubian: “Rzim”
  • Kazakh: “Рим”
  • Khmer: “ទីក្រុងរ៉ូម”
  • Khmer: “រ៉ូម”
  • Kildin Sami: “Рӣмм”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Roma”
  • Kirghiz: “Рим”
  • Kirghiz: “Урум”
  • Kölsch: “Rom”
  • Komering: “Roma”
  • Komi: “Рим”
  • Kongo: “Roma”
  • Korean: “로마”
  • Kotava: “Roma”
  • Kurdish: “Roma”
  • Ladin: “Roma”
  • Ladino: “Roma”
  • Lao: “ໂຣມ”
  • Latin: “Roma”
  • Latin: “Urbs”
  • Latvian: “Roma”
  • Lezghian: “Рим”
  • Ligurian: “Romma”
  • Limburgan: “Roeme”
  • Lingala: “Roma”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Roma”
  • Literary Chinese: “羅馬”
  • Lithuanian: “Roma”
  • Livvi: “Riimu”
  • Livvi: “Roma”
  • Lojban: “romas”
  • Lombard: “Roma”
  • Low German: “Rom”
  • Low German: “Rome”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Rom”
  • Luxembourgish: “Roum”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Roma”
  • Macedonian: “Рим”
  • Maithili: “रोम”
  • Malagasy: “Roma”
  • Malagasy: “Rôma”
  • Malay: “Rom”
  • Malay: “روم”
  • Malayalam: “റോം”
  • Maltese: “Ruma”
  • Manx: “Yn Raue”
  • Maori: “Rōma”
  • Marathi: “रोम”
  • Mazanderani: “رم”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Lò̤-mā”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lô-má”
  • Minangkabau: “Roma”
  • Mingrelian: “რომი”
  • Mirandese: “Roma”
  • Moksha: “Рим”
  • Mongolian: “Ром”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “روما”
  • N'Ko: “ߙߐ߭ߡߎ߲߬”
  • Nauru: “Roma”
  • Neapolitan: “Rome”
  • Neapolitan: “Romma”
  • Nepali: “रोम”
  • Newari: “रोम”
  • Northern Frisian: “Rom”
  • Northern Frisian: “Room”
  • Northern Luri: “رم”
  • Northern Sami: “Roma”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Roma”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Roma”
  • Norwegian: “Roma”
  • Novial: “Roma”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Rome”
  • Nyanja: “Rome”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Roma”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܪܗܘܡܐ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܪܘܡܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Rom”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Rōm”
  • Oriya: “ରୋମ”
  • Ossetian: “Рим”
  • Ossetian: “Ром”
  • Pampanga: “Rome”
  • Panjabi: “ਰੋਮ”
  • Papiamento: “Roma”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Rom”
  • Persian: “رم”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Rom”
  • Picard: “Rome”
  • Piemontese: “Roma”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Rome”
  • Polish: “Rzym”
  • Pontic: “Ρώμη”
  • Portuguese: “Roma”
  • Pushto: “روم”
  • Quechua: “Roma”
  • Quechua: “Ruma”
  • Romagnol: “Råmma”
  • Romagnol: “Ròma”
  • Romanian: “Roma”
  • Romansh: “Roma”
  • Rundi: “Roma”
  • Rundi: “Rome”
  • Russia Buriat: “Рим”
  • Russia Buriat: “Рома”
  • Russian: “Рим”
  • Rusyn: “Рим”
  • Sakizaya: “Lo-ma”
  • Samoan: “Roma”
  • Samogitian: “Ruoma”
  • Sango: “Rome”
  • Sanskrit: “रोम-नगरम्”
  • Sanskrit: “रोमा”
  • Santali: “ᱨᱳᱢ”
  • Sardinian: “Roma”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Room”
  • Scots: “Roum”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Ròimh”
  • Serbian: “Rim”
  • Serbian: “Рим”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rim”
  • Shan: “ရူမ်း”
  • Shona: “Rome”
  • Sicilian: “Roma”
  • Silesian: “Rzim”
  • Sindhi: “روم”
  • Sinhala: “රෝමය”
  • Slovak: “Rím”
  • Slovenian: “Rim”
  • Somali: “Roma”
  • South Azerbaijani: “روم”
  • Southern Sotho: “Roma”
  • Spanish: “Roma”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Roma”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵕⵓⵎⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Roma”
  • Swahili: “Mji wa Roma”
  • Swahili: “Roma”
  • Swedish: “Rom”
  • Swiss German: “Rom”
  • Sylheti: “ꠞꠥꠝ ꠘꠉꠞ”
  • Tachelhit: “Roma”
  • Tachelhit: “Ruma”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Roma”
  • Tagalog: “Roma”
  • Tahitian: “Roma”
  • Tajik: “Рим”
  • Tajik: “Рум”
  • Talysh: “Romə”
  • Tamil: “உரோமை நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “உரோம்”
  • Tatar: “Рим”
  • Telugu: “రోమ్”
  • Tetum: “Roma”
  • Thai: “โรม”
  • Tibetan: “རོ་མ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ሮማ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Rom”
  • Tok Pisin: “Roma”
  • Tumbuka: “Rome”
  • Turkish: “Roma”
  • Turkmen: “Rim”
  • Twi: “Roma”
  • Tyap: “Rom”
  • Udmurt: “Рим”
  • Uighur: “Rim”
  • Uighur: “رىم”
  • Ukrainian: “Рим”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Rom”
  • Urdu: “روم”
  • Uzbek: “Rim”
  • Venda: “Rome”
  • Venetian: “Roma”
  • Veps: “Rim”
  • Vietnamese: “Rô-ma”
  • Vietnamese: “Roma”
  • Vlaams: “Rome”
  • Vlax Romani: “Rome”
  • Volapük: “Roma”
  • Võro: “Rooma”
  • Walloon: “Rome”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Roma”
  • Welsh: “Rhufain”
  • Welsh: “Roma”
  • Western Armenian: “Հռոմ”
  • Western Frisian: “Rome”
  • Western Panjabi: “روم”
  • Wolof: “Rom”
  • Wu Chinese: “罗马”
  • Xhosa: “ERoma”
  • Yakut: “Рим”
  • Yakut: “Ром”
  • Yiddish: “רוים”
  • Yoruba: “Rómù”
  • Yue Chinese: “羅馬”
  • Zeeuws: “Rome”
  • Zulu: “i-Rome”
  • Zulu: “IRoma”
  • “ma tomo Loma”
  • “Rim”
  • “Roma”
  • “Рим”
  • “रोम”

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