Tuesday 8 September 2015

ROME, ITALY

Rome is a city and special comune (named "Roma Capitale") in Italy. Rome is the capital of Italy and of the Lazio region. With 2.9 million residents in 1,285 km2, it is also the country's largest and most populated comune and fourth-most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of Tiber river. Vatican City is an independent country within the city boundaries of Rome, the only existing example of a country within a city: for this reason Rome has been often defined as capital of two states.

Rome's history spans more than two and a half thousand years. While Roman mythology dates the founding of Rome at only around 753 BC, the site has been inhabited for much longer, making it one of the oldest continuously occupied sites in Europe. The city's early population originated from a mix of Latins, Etruscans and Sabines. Eventually, the city successively became the capital of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, and is regarded as one of the birthplaces of Western civilisation and as the first ever metropolis.

It is referred to as "Roma Aeterna" (The Eternal City) and "Caput Mundi" (Capital of the World), two central notions in ancient Roman culture. After the fall of the Western Empire, which marked the beginning of the Middle Ages, Rome slowly fell under the political control of the Papacy, which had settled in the city since the 1st century AD, until in the 8th century it became the capital of the Papal States, which lasted until 1870. Beginning with the Renaissance, almost all the popes since Nicholas V (1422–55) pursued coherently along four hundred years an architectonic and urbanistic program aimed to make of the city the world's artistic and cultural centre. Due to that, Rome became first one of the major centres of the Italian Renaissance, and then the birthplace of both the Baroque style and Neoclassicism.

Famous artists, painters, sculptors and architects made Rome the centre of their activity, creating masterpieces throughout the city. In 1871 Rome became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy, and in 1946 that of the Italian Republic. Rome has the status of a global city. Rome ranked in 2014 as the 14th-most-visited city in the world, 3rd most visited in the European Union, and the most popular tourist attraction in Italy. 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.

This post is part of the Our World Tuesday meme,
and also part of the Ruby Tuesday meme,
and also part of the Trees & Bushes meme,
and also part of the Wordless Wednesday meme,
and also part of the ABC Wednesday meme.














14 comments:

  1. Beautiful photos of the architecture and art! I especially love the ruins. And wonderful trees.

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  2. Wonderful photos.
    Please drop by each week for Wordless Wednesday (on Tuesday) to link up! So glad you joined in at this week's linky:
    http://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2015/09/allium-glorious.html

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  3. What a wonderful tour of Rome! It is a beautiful city. Awesome photos. Have a happy week!

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  4. Great photos - and it's always nice to stop and watch the world go by! #ourworldtuesday

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  5. Great set of images. While I really like the ruins, I love the simplicity of the architecture of that next to last image. Well done.

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  6. Love the artwork and the ruins. Nice work!

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  7. Calling by from ABC Wednesday.Happy Memories for me looking at these photos.

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  8. I have never been there but my mum has been several times and it is one of her favorite places.

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  9. Goodafternoon

    What a wonderful entrie you've made for this weeks letter in our Challenge. Thank you for letting me take a little trip to a part in the world, i haven't been jet.

    Have a nice day
    ♫ Mel☺dy ♫

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  10. Thank you for this post and the familiar photos, which I admired in 1962 and which are always impressive like Athens and the ancient Egyptian pyramids, but I also admire Stonehenge in the UK and the Borobudur in Java. There is a lot in this world of ours that we must cherish. Have a great weekend.
    Wil, ABCW Team.

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  11. after Paris, the city I want to see the most
    ROG, ABCW

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  12. These is an impressive post! I will look often at your new "intelyblog" .... I like intelligent and communicative people.
    I myself stay in the net only with my collages....less is more, is what i decided...Herzlich Pippa

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  13. These is an impressive post! I will look often at your new "intelyblog" .... I like intelligent and communicative people.
    I myself stay in the net only with my collages....less is more, is what i decided...Herzlich Pippa

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  14. Such gorgeous photos. I love the assortment of great works of art, the culture, and the architecture. Thank you for giving us some information on Rome too.

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