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{{Short description|Capital and largest city of Italy}}
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{{native name|la|Caput Mundi}}<br />{{small|The Capital of the world}}
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'''Rome''' ([[Social:Italian language|Italian]] and [[Social:Latin|Latin]]: ''Roma'', {{IPA-it|ˈroːma|lang|It-Roma.ogg}}) is the capital city of Italy. It is also the capital of the Lazio region, the centre of the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, and a special ''comune'' (municipality) named ''Comune di Roma Capitale''. With 2,860,009 residents in {{cvt|1285|km2|mi2|1}},<ref name="Population" /> Rome is the country's most populated ''comune'' and the third most populous city in the [[Social:European Union|European Union]] by population within city limits. The Metropolitan City of Rome, with a population of 4,355,725 residents, is the most populous metropolitan city in Italy.<ref name="PR" /> Its metropolitan area is the third-most populous within Italy.<ref name="citypop">{{Cite web |url=http://www.citypopulation.de/world/Agglomerations.html |title=Principal Agglomerations of the World |publisher=Citypopulation |date=January 2017 |access-date=6 April 2012 |archive-date=4 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100704112702/http://www.citypopulation.de/world/Agglomerations.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Rome is located in the central-western portion of the [[Place:Italian Peninsula|Italian Peninsula]], within Lazio ([[Place:Latium|Latium]]), along the shores of the Tiber. [[Religion:Vatican City|Vatican City]] (the smallest country in the world)<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.history.com/news/what-is-the-smallest-country-in-the-world |title=What is the smallest country in the world? |work=History.com |access-date=27 September 2018 |language=en |archive-date=27 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927125308/https://www.history.com/news/what-is-the-smallest-country-in-the-world |url-status=live}}</ref> is an independent country inside the city boundaries of Rome, the only existing example of a country within a city. Rome is often referred to as the City of Seven Hills due to its geographic location, and also as the "Eternal City". Rome is generally considered to be the cradle of Western [[Social:Western culture|civilization]] and [[Religion:Western Christianity|Western]] Christian culture, and the centre of the [[Organization:Catholic Church|Catholic Church]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Understanding China Today: An Exploration of Politics, Economics, Society, and International Relations |first=Silvio |last=Beretta |year=2017 |isbn=9783319296258 |page=320 |publisher=Springer |quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=	Christianity: Religions of the World |first=Ann Marie |last=B. Bahr |year=2009 |isbn=9781438106397 |page=139 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Rome in America: Transnational Catholic Ideology from the Risorgimento to Fascism |first=Peter |last=R. D'Agostino |year=2005 |isbn=9780807863411 |page= |publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press }}</ref>

Rome's history spans 28 centuries. While Roman mythology dates the founding of Rome at around 753 BC, the site has been inhabited for much longer, making it a major human settlement for almost three millennia and one of the oldest continuously occupied cities in Europe.<ref name="Heiken, G. 2005">Heiken, G., Funiciello, R. and De Rita, D. (2005), ''The Seven Hills of Rome: A Geological Tour of the Eternal City''. Princeton University Press.</ref> The city's early population originated from a mix of Latins, [[Place:Etruscan civilization|Etruscans]], and Sabines. Eventually, the city successively became the capital of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, and is regarded by many as the first-ever Imperial city and metropolis.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historytoday.com/mary-harlow/old-age-ancient-rome |title=Old Age in Ancient Rome – History Today |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612210546/https://www.historytoday.com/mary-harlow/old-age-ancient-rome |archive-date=12 June 2018}}</ref> It was first called ''The Eternal City'' ({{lang-la|Urbs Aeterna}}; {{lang-it|La Città Eterna}}) by the Roman poet Tibullus in the 1st century BC, and the expression was also taken up by Ovid, Virgil, and Livy.<ref>Stephanie Malia Hom, "Consuming the View: Tourism, Rome, and the Topos of the Eternal City", ''Annali d'Igtalianistica'' '''28''':91–116 {{JSTOR|24016389}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Andres Perez |first=Javier |title=Approximación a la Iconografía de Roma Aeterna |url=http://www.elfuturodelpasado.com/elfuturodelpasado/Ultimo_numero_files/023.pdf |publisher=El Futuro del Pasado |access-date=28 May 2014 |pages=349–363 |year=2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923235403/http://www.elfuturodelpasado.com/elfuturodelpasado/Ultimo_numero_files/023.pdf |archive-date=23 September 2015}}</ref> Rome is also called "Caput Mundi" (Capital of the World).

After the fall of the Empire in the west, which marked the beginning of the [[History:Middle Ages|Middle Ages]], Rome slowly fell under the political control of the Papacy, and in the 8th century, it became the capital of the Papal States, which lasted until 1870. Beginning with the [[Philosophy:Renaissance|Renaissance]], almost all popes since Nicholas V (1447–1455) pursued a coherent architectural and urban programme over four hundred years, aimed at making the city the artistic and cultural centre of the world.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Giovannoni |first1=Gustavo |title=Topografia e urbanistica di Roma |date=1958 |publisher=Istituto di Studi Romani |location=Rome |pages=346–347 |language=it}}</ref> In this way, Rome first became one of the major centres of the [[Philosophy:Renaissance|Renaissance]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Rome, city, Italy |encyclopedia=Columbia Encyclopedia |edition=6th |year=2009 |url=https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=117042793 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100324095132/http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=117042793 |archive-date=24 March 2010}}</ref> and then became the birthplace of both the [[History:Baroque|Baroque]] style and [[History:Neoclassicism|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 [[History:Kingdom of Italy|Kingdom of Italy]], which, in 1946, became the Italian Republic.

In 2019, Rome was the 14th most visited city in the world, with 8.6 million tourists, the third most visited city in the European Union, and the most popular tourist destination in Italy.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/29/travel/gallery/most-visited-cities-euromonitor/index.html |title=World's most visited cities |publisher=CNN |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307203514/http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/29/travel/gallery/most-visited-cities-euromonitor/index.html |archive-date=7 March 2016}}</ref> Its historic centre is listed by [[Organization:UNESCO|UNESCO]] as a World Heritage Site.<ref name="whc.unesco.org">{{cite web |title=Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/91 |work=[[Organization:UNESCO|UNESCO]] World Heritage Centre |access-date=8 June 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20110224124311/https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/91 |archive-date=24 February 2011}}</ref> The host city for the 1960 Summer Olympics, Rome is also the seat of several specialised agencies of the {{wipe|United Nations}}, such as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the [[Organization:World Food Programme|World Food Programme]] (WFP) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The city also hosts the Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/italy/2018/07/13/rome-chosen-as-seat-of-euro-med-assembly-secretariat_1915c82d-78f2-41e3-9bd7-69b0ba27ee6c.html |title=Rome chosen as seat of Euro-Med Assembly secretariat – Italy |date=13 July 2018 |access-date=2 December 2018 |archive-date=2 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181202155058/http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/italy/2018/07/13/rome-chosen-as-seat-of-euro-med-assembly-secretariat_1915c82d-78f2-41e3-9bd7-69b0ba27ee6c.html |url-status=live}}</ref> (UfM) as well as the headquarters of many multinational companies, such as [[Company:Eni|Eni]], Enel, TIM, Leonardo, and banks such as BNL. Numerous companies are based within Rome's EUR business district, such as the luxury fashion house [[Company:Fendi|Fendi]] located in the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana. The presence of renowned international brands in the city has made Rome an important centre of fashion and design, and the Cinecittà Studios have been the set of many Academy Award–winning movies.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.italia.it/en/travel-ideas/culture-and-entertainment/cinecitta-dream-factory.html |title=Cinecittà: Dream Factory |date=23 March 2015 |language=en |access-date=20 May 2019 |archive-date=18 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418213709/http://www.italia.it/en/travel-ideas/culture-and-entertainment/cinecitta-dream-factory.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Name and symbol==
===Etymology===
According to the Ancient Romans' founding myth,<ref name="livy1797">{{cite book |publisher=Printed for A.Strahan |last=Livy |others=George Baker (trans.) |title=The history of Rome |year=1797}}</ref> the name ''Roma'' came from the city's founder and first king, Romulus.<ref name=britannica>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/509038/Romulus-and-Remus |title=Romulus and Remus |encyclopedia=Britannica |date=25 November 2014 |access-date=9 March 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317100831/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/509038/Romulus-and-Remus |archive-date=17 March 2015}}</ref>

However, it is possible that the name Romulus was actually derived from Rome itself.<ref>Cf. Jaan Puhvel: ''Comparative mythology.'' The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London 1989, p. 287.</ref> As early as the 4th century, there have been alternative theories proposed on the origin of the name ''Roma''. Several hypotheses have been advanced focusing on its linguistic roots which however remain uncertain:<ref>Claudio Rendina: ''Roma Ieri, Oggi, Domani''. Newton Compton, Roma, 2007, p. 17.</ref>
* From ''Rumon'' or ''Rumen'', archaic name of the Tiber, which in turn is supposedly related to the Greek verb ῥέω (''rhéō'') 'to flow, stream' and the Latin verb ''ruō'' 'to hurry, rush';{{efn|This hypothesis originates from the Roman Grammarian Maurus Servius Honoratus. However, the Greek verb descends from the Proto-Indo-European root ''*srew-'' (compare Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (''rheûma'') 'a stream, flow, current', the Thracian river name Στρυμών (''Strumṓn'') and Proto-Germanic ''*strauma-'' 'stream'; if it was related, however, the Latin river name would be expected to begin with **''Frum-'', like Latin ''frīgeō'' 'to freeze' from the root ''*sreyHg-'') and the Latin verb from ''*h₃rew-''.}}
* From the [[Social:Etruscan language|Etruscan]] word 𐌓𐌖𐌌𐌀 (''ruma''), whose root is ''*rum-'' "teat", with possible reference either to the totem wolf that adopted and suckled the cognately named twins Romulus and Remus, or to the shape of the Palatine and Aventine Hills;
* From the Greek word ῥώμη (''rhṓmē''), which means ''strength''.{{efn|This hypothesis originates from [[Philosophy:Plutarch|Plutarch]].}}

===Other names and symbols===
Rome has also been called in ancient times simply "Urbs" (central city),<ref name="Vergari Marco Luberti Pica Del Monte 2020 pp. 6–17">{{cite journal | last1=Vergari | first1=Francesca | last2=Marco Luberti | first2=Gian | last3=Pica | first3=Alessia | last4=Del Monte | first4=Maurizio | title=Geomorphology of the historic centre of the ''Urbs'' (Rome, Italy) | journal=Journal of Maps | publisher=Informa UK Limited | volume=17 | issue=4 | date=2020-05-18 | issn=1744-5647 | doi=10.1080/17445647.2020.1761465 | pages=6–17| s2cid=219441323 | doi-access=free | hdl=11573/1503575 | hdl-access=free }}</ref> from ''urbs roma'', or identified with its ancient Roman initialism of SPQR, the symbol of Rome's constituted republican government. Furthermore, Rome has been called Urbs Aeterna (The Eternal City), Caput Mundi (The Capital of the world), Throne of St. Peter and Roma Capitale.

==History==
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===Earliest history===
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[[File:Maquette de la Rome archaïque (musée de la civilisation romaine, Rome) (5917668745).jpg|thumb|Model of archaic Rome. The image faces northeast, with the Capitoline hill on left and the Palatine on right. The city would not have looked like this prior to the seventh century BC.]]
While there have been discoveries of archaeological evidence of human occupation of the Rome area from approximately 14,000 years ago, the dense layer of much younger debris obscures Palaeolithic and [[History:Neolithic|Neolithic]] sites.<ref name="Heiken, G. 2005" /> Evidence of stone tools, pottery, and stone weapons attest to about 10,000 years of human presence. Several excavations support the view that Rome grew from pastoral settlements on the Palatine Hill built above the area of the future Roman Forum. Between the end of the [[History:Bronze Age|Bronze Age]] and the beginning of the [[History:Iron Age|Iron Age]], each hill between the sea and the Capitoline Hill was topped by a village (on the Capitoline, a village is attested since the end of the 14th century BC).<ref name=coa9>Coarelli (1984) p. 9</ref> However, none of them yet had an urban quality.<ref name=coa9 /> Nowadays, there is a wide consensus that the city developed gradually through the aggregation ("[[Place:Synoecism|synoecism]]") of several villages around the largest one, placed above the Palatine.<ref name=coa9 /> This aggregation was facilitated by the increase of agricultural productivity above the [[Finance:Subsistence economy|subsistence level]], which also allowed the establishment of secondary and tertiary activities. These, in turn, boosted the development of trade with the Greek colonies of southern Italy (mainly [[Earth:Ischia|Ischia]] and Cumae).<ref name=coa9 /> These developments, which according to archaeological evidence took place during the mid-eighth century BC, can be considered as the "birth" of the city.<ref name=coa9 /> Despite recent excavations at the Palatine hill, the view that Rome was founded deliberately in the middle of the eighth century BC, as the legend of Romulus suggests, remains a fringe hypothesis.<ref name="foundation">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/12/science/12rome.html |title=More Clues in the Legend (or Is It Fact?) of Romulus |first=John Nobel |last=Wilford |date=12 June 2007 |work={{wipe|The New York Times}} |access-date=11 August 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090417112437/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/12/science/12rome.html |archive-date=17 April 2009}}</ref>

====Legend of the founding of Rome====
[[File:Kapitolinische Wölfin Museum Capitolini.jpg|thumb|''Capitoline Wolf'', a sculpture of the [[She-wolf (Roman mythology)|mythical she-wolf]] suckling the infant twins Romulus and Remus]]

Traditional stories handed down by the ancient Romans themselves explain the earliest history of their city in terms of [[Social:Legend|legend]] and [[Social:Myth|myth]]. The most familiar of these myths, and perhaps the most famous of all Roman myths, is the story of Romulus and Remus, the twins who were suckled by a [[She-wolf (Roman mythology)|she-wolf]].<ref name="livy1797" /> They decided to build a city, but after an argument, Romulus killed his brother and the city took his name. According to the Roman annalists, this happened on 21 April 753 BC.{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | p=73}} This legend had to be reconciled with a dual tradition, set earlier in time, that had the Trojan refugee Aeneas escape to Italy and found the line of Romans through his son Iulus, the namesake of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.<ref name="livy2005">{{Cite book |publisher=Penguin Books Ltd |isbn=978-0-14-196307-5 |last=Livy |title=The Early History of Rome |year=2005}}</ref>
This was accomplished by the Roman poet Virgil in the first century BC. In addition, Strabo mentions an older story, that the city was an Arcadian colony founded by [[Religion:Evander of Pallene|Evander]]. Strabo also writes that Lucius Coelius Antipater believed that Rome was founded by Greeks.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-grc1:5.3.3 |title=Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 3, section 3 |website=www.perseus.tufts.edu |access-date=21 February 2021 |archive-date=1 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301151855/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-grc1:5.3.3 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/5C*.html |title=LacusCurtius • Strabo's Geography — Book V Chapter 3 |website=penelope.uchicago.edu |access-date=20 February 2021 |archive-date=29 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210529132904/https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/5C%2A.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Monarchy and republic===
[[File:Foro_Boario_Portuno_04.jpg|thumb|The Temple of Portunus, god of grain storage, keys, livestock and ports,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Fowler|first1=W. Warde|title=Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic|date=1899|publisher=Kennikat Press|pages=202–204}}</ref> built between 120 and 80 BC]]
[[File:Foro Romano visto dai Musei Capitolini Roma.jpg|thumb|The Roman Forum contains the ruins of the buildings that represented the political, legal, religious and economic centre of ancient Rome, constituting the "nerve centre" of all Roman civilisation.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Roman Forum |website=World History Encyclopedia |date=18 January 2012 |url=https://www.worldhistory.org/article/26/the-roman-forum/ |access-date=22 August 2019 |archive-date=20 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420181638/https://www.worldhistory.org/article/26/the-roman-forum/ |url-status=live}}</ref>]]

After the foundation by Romulus according to a legend,{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | p=73}} Rome was ruled for a period of 244 years by a [[Social:Monarchy|monarchical system]], initially with sovereigns of Latin and Sabine origin, later by Etruscan kings. The tradition handed down seven kings: Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius Priscus, Servius Tullius and Lucius Tarquinius Superbus.{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | p=73}}

In 509 BC, the Romans expelled the last king from their city and established an [[Philosophy:Oligarchy|oligarchic]] [[Social:Republic|republic]]. Rome then began a period characterised by internal struggles between patricians (aristocrats) and plebeians (small landowners), and by constant warfare against the populations of central Italy: Etruscans, Latins, Volsci, Aequi, and Marsi.{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | p=77}} After becoming master of [[Place:Latium|Latium]], Rome led several wars (against the Gauls, Osci-Samnites and the Greek colony of Taranto, allied with Pyrrhus, king of [[Place:Epirus|Epirus]]) whose result was the conquest of the Italian peninsula, from the central area up to [[Place:Magna Graecia|Magna Graecia]].{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | p=79}}

The third and second century BC saw the establishment of Roman hegemony over the Mediterranean and the [[Place:Balkans|Balkans]], through the three Punic Wars (264–146 BC) fought against the city of Carthage and the three Macedonian Wars (212–168 BC) against [[Place:Macedonia (ancient kingdom)|Macedonia]].{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | pp=81–83}} The first [[Place:Roman province|Roman province]]s were established at this time: Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, Hispania, Macedonia, Achaea and Africa.{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | pp=81–85}}

From the beginning of the 2nd century BC, power was contested between two groups of aristocrats: the [[Social:Optimates|optimates]], representing the conservative part of the Senate, and the [[Social:Populares|populares]], which relied on the help of the plebs (urban lower class) to gain power. In the same period, the bankruptcy of the small farmers and the establishment of large slave estates caused large-scale migration to the city. The continuous warfare led to the establishment of a professional army, which turned out to be more loyal to its generals than to the republic. Because of this, in the second half of the second century and during the first century BC there were conflicts both abroad and internally: after the failed attempt of social reform of the populares Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus,{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | p=89}} and the war against Jugurtha,{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | p=89}} there was a civil war from which the general Sulla emerged victorious.{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | p=89}} A major slave revolt under Spartacus followed,{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | p=91}} and then the establishment of the first Triumvirate with Caesar, Pompey and Crassus.{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | p=91}}

The conquest of [[Place:Gaul|Gaul]] made Caesar immensely powerful and popular, which led to a second civil war against the Senate and Pompey. After his victory, Caesar established himself as [[Social:Dictator perpetuo|dictator for life]].{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | p=91}} His assassination led to a second Triumvirate among Octavian (Caesar's grandnephew and heir), Mark Antony and Lepidus, and to another civil war between Octavian and Antony.{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | p=93}}

===Empire===
[[File:Palatine_Hill_from_across_the_Circus_Maximus_April_2019.jpg|thumb|The Ancient-Imperial-Roman palaces of the Palatine, a series of palaces located in the Palatine Hill, express power and wealth of emperors from Augustus until the 4th century.]]
[[File:Trajan's Market, Rome, Italy.jpg|thumb|The Imperial fora belong to a series of ''monumental fora'' (public squares) constructed in Rome by the emperors. Also seen in the image is Trajan's Market.]]
[[File:Détail de la maquette de Rome à lépoque de Constantin (5840455090).jpg|thumb|right|Model of Imperial Rome at the Museo della civiltà romana in Rome. The Temple of Claudius is situated to the south (left) of the Colosseum.]]

In 27 BC, Octavian became ''princeps civitatis'' and took the title of Augustus, founding the principate, a [[Social:Diarchy|diarchy]] between the ''princeps'' and the senate.{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | p=93}} During the reign of [[Biography:Nero|Nero]], two thirds of the city was ruined after the Great Fire of Rome, and the persecution of Christians commenced.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/great-fire-rome-background/1446/ |title=The Great Fire of Rome {{!}} Background {{!}} Secrets of the Dead {{!}} PBS|date=29 May 2014|website=Secrets of the Dead|language=en-US |access-date=7 April 2019 |archive-date=4 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404105016/http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/great-fire-rome-background/1446/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/jul19/great-fire-rome/ |title=Great Fire of Rome |last=Society |first=National Geographic |date=18 June 2014 |website=National Geographic Society |language=en |access-date=7 April 2019 |archive-date=30 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330173019/https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/jul19/great-fire-rome/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Egypt, Greece, and Rome : Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean |last=Freeman |first=Charles |isbn=978-0-19-965191-7 |edition=Third |publisher=Oxford University Press |oclc=868077503 |date=March 2014}}</ref> Rome was established as a de facto empire, which reached its greatest expansion in the second century under the Emperor Trajan. Rome was confirmed as caput Mundi, i.e. the capital of the known world, an expression which had already been used in the Republican period. During its first two centuries, the empire was ruled by emperors of the Julio-Claudian,{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | p=97}} Flavian (who also built an eponymous amphitheatre, known as the [[Biology:Colosseum|Colosseum]]),{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | p=97}} and Antonine dynasties.{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | p=99}} This time was also characterised by the spread of the Christian religion, preached by Jesus Christ in Judea in the first half of the first century (under Tiberius) and popularised by his [[Religion:Apostles in the New Testament|apostle]]s through the empire and beyond.{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | p=107}} The Antonine age is considered the zenith of the Empire, whose territory ranged from the [[Earth:Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic Ocean]] to the [[Place:Euphrates|Euphrates]] and from Britain to [[Place:Egypt|Egypt]].{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | p=99}}

[[File:Colosseum at night - wide angle.JPG|thumb|Colosseum at night]]

After the end of the Severan Dynasty in 235, the Empire entered into a 50-year period known as the Crisis of the Third Century during which there were numerous putsches by generals, who sought to secure the region of the empire they were entrusted with due to the weakness of central authority in Rome. There was the so-called Gallic Empire from 260 to 274 and the revolts of Zenobia and her father from the mid-260s which sought to fend off Persian incursions. Some regions – Britain, Spain, and North Africa – were hardly affected. Instability caused economic deterioration, and there was a rapid rise in inflation as the government debased the currency in order to meet expenses. The Germanic tribes along the Rhine and north of the Balkans made serious, uncoordinated incursions from the 250s–280s that were more like giant raiding parties rather than attempts to settle. The Persian Empire invaded from the east several times during the 230s to 260s but were eventually defeated.{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | p=101}} Emperor Diocletian (284) undertook the restoration of the State. He ended the Principate and introduced the [[Social:Tetrarchy|Tetrarchy]] which sought to increase state power. The most marked feature was the unprecedented intervention of the State down to the city level: whereas the State had submitted a tax demand to a city and allowed it to allocate the charges, from his reign the State did this down to the village level. In a vain attempt to control inflation, he imposed [[Finance:Price controls|price controls]] which did not last. He or Constantine regionalised the administration of the empire which fundamentally changed the way it was governed by creating regional dioceses (the consensus seems to have shifted from 297 to 313/14 as the date of creation due to the argument of Constantin Zuckerman in 2002 "Sur la liste de Vérone et la province de Grande-Arménie, Mélanges Gilber Dagron). The existence of regional fiscal units from 286 served as the model for this unprecedented innovation. The emperor quickened the process of removing military command from governors. Henceforth, civilian administration and military command would be separate. He gave governors more fiscal duties and placed them in charge of the army logistical support system as an attempt to control it by removing the support system from its control. Diocletian ruled the eastern half, residing in [[Place:Nicomedia|Nicomedia]]. In 296, he elevated Maximian to ''Augustus'' of the western half, where he ruled mostly from Mediolanum when not on the move.{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | p=101}} In 292, he created two 'junior' emperors, the Caesars, one for each Augustus, Constantius for Britain, Gaul, and Spain whose seat of power was in Trier and Galerius in [[Biology:Sirmium|Sirmium]] in the [[Place:Balkans|Balkans]]. The appointment of a Caesar was not unknown: Diocletian tried to turn into a system of non-dynastic succession. Upon abdication in 305, the Caesars succeeded and they, in turn, appointed two colleagues for themselves.{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | p=101}}

After the abdication of Diocletian and Maximian in 305 and a series of civil wars between rival claimants to imperial power, during the years 306–313, the [[Social:Tetrarchy|Tetrarchy]] was abandoned. Constantine the Great undertook a major reform of the bureaucracy, not by changing the structure but by rationalising the competencies of the several ministries during the years 325–330, after he defeated Licinius, emperor in the East, at the end of 324. The so-called [[Religion:Edict of Milan|Edict of Milan]] of 313, actually a fragment of a letter from Licinius to the governors of the eastern provinces, granted freedom of worship to everyone, including Christians, and ordered the restoration of confiscated church properties upon petition to the newly created vicars of dioceses. He funded the building of several churches and allowed clergy to act as arbitrators in civil suits (a measure that did not outlast him but which was restored in part much later). He transformed the town of Byzantium into his new residence, which, however, was not officially anything more than an imperial residence like Milan or Trier or [[Place:Nicomedia|Nicomedia]] until given a city prefect in May 359 by Constantius II; Constantinople.{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | p=103}}

Christianity in the form of the Nicene Creed became the official religion of the empire in 380, via the [[Religion:Edict of Thessalonica|Edict of Thessalonica]] issued in the name of three emperors – Gratian, Valentinian II, and Theodosius I – with Theodosius clearly the driving force behind it. He was the last emperor of a unified empire: after his death in 395, his sons, Arcadius and Honorius divided the empire into [[Place:Western Roman Empire|a western]] and an eastern part. The seat of government in the Western Roman Empire was transferred to Ravenna in 408, but from 450 the emperors mostly resided in the capital city, Rome.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gillett|first=Andrew|date=2001|title=Rome, Ravenna and the Last Western Emperors|url=https://www.academia.edu/18189525|journal=Papers of the British School at Rome|volume=69|pages=131–167|doi=10.1017/S0068246200001781|jstor=40311008|s2cid=129373675|issn=0068-2462}}</ref>

[[File:Sack of Rome by the Visigoths on 24 August 410 by JN Sylvestre 1890.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.75|The Visigoths sacking Rome in 410, by Joseph-Noël Sylvestre (1890), the first time in {{c.}}&nbsp;800 years that Rome had fallen to a foreign enemy]]
Rome, which had lost its central role in the administration of the empire, was sacked in 410 by the Visigoths led by Alaric I,{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | p=115}} but very little physical damage was done, most of which was repaired. What could not be so easily replaced were portable items such as artwork in precious metals and items for domestic use (loot). The popes embellished the city with large basilicas, such as Santa Maria Maggiore (with the collaboration of the emperors). The population of the city had fallen from 800,000 to 450–500,000 by the time the city was sacked in 455 by Genseric, king of the Vandals.{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | p=117}} The weak emperors of the fifth century could not stop the decay, leading to the deposition of Romulus Augustus on 22 August 476, which marked the end of the [[Place:Western Roman Empire|Western Roman Empire]] and, for many historians, the beginning of the [[History:Middle Ages|Middle Ages]].{{sfn | Kinder | Hilgemann | 1964 | p=103}}

The decline of the city's population was caused by the loss of grain shipments from North Africa, from 440 onward, and the unwillingness of the senatorial class to maintain donations to support a population that was too large for the resources available. Even so, strenuous efforts were made to maintain the monumental centre, the palatine, and the largest baths, which continued to function until the Gothic siege of 537. The large baths of Constantine on the Quirinale were even repaired in 443, and the extent of the damage exaggerated and dramatised.<ref>''Rome, An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present'', Rabun Taylor, Katherine W. Rinne and Spiro Kostof, 2016 pp.&nbsp;160–179</ref>

However, the city gave an appearance overall of shabbiness and decay because of the large abandoned areas due to population decline. The population declined to 500,000 by 452 and 100,000 by 500 AD (perhaps larger, though no certain figure can be known). After the Gothic siege of 537, the population dropped to 30,000 but had risen to 90,000 by the papacy of Gregory the Great.<ref>''Rome, Profile of a City: 321–1308'', Richard Krautheimer, p.&nbsp;165</ref> The population decline coincided with the general collapse of urban life in the West in the fifth and sixth centuries, with few exceptions. Subsidized state grain distributions to the poorer members of society continued right through the sixth century and probably prevented the population from falling further.<ref>''Rome, Urban History'', pp.&nbsp;184–185</ref> The figure of 450,000–500,000 is based on the amount of pork, 3,629,000 lbs. distributed to poorer Romans during five winter months at the rate of five Roman lbs per person per month, enough for 145,000 persons or 1/4 or 1/3 of the total population.<ref>Novel 36, 2, Emperor Valeninian III</ref> Grain distribution to 80,000 ticket holders at the same time suggests 400,000 (Augustus set the number at 200,000 or one-fifth of the population).

===Middle Ages===
[[File:Genseric sacking rome 456.jpg|thumb|The Vandals sacking Rome in 455, by Karl Briullov (1830s)]]

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD, Rome was first under the control of [[Social:Odoacer|Odoacer]] and then became part of the [[Place:Ostrogothic Kingdom|Ostrogothic Kingdom]] before returning to [[Place:Byzantine Empire|East Roman]] control after the Gothic War, which devastated the city in 546 and 550. Its population declined from more than a million in 210 AD to 500,000 in 273<ref>{{cite web |last= |first= |url=http://www.mandatory.com/2013/01/24/the-16-greatest-cities-in-human-history/9 |title=travel, history, civilizations, greatest cities, largest cities, Rome |publisher=Mandatory |date=24 January 2013 |access-date=12 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130130090938/http://www.mandatory.com/2013/01/24/the-16-greatest-cities-in-human-history/9 |archive-date=30 January 2013}}</ref> to 35,000 after the Gothic War (535–554),<ref>{{cite book |last=Tellier |first=Luc-Normand |title=Urban World History: An Economic and Geographical Perspective |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cXuCjDbxC1YC&pg=PA185 |year=2009 |publisher=PUQ |isbn=978-2-7605-2209-1 |page=185 |access-date=29 October 2015 |archive-date=13 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513083650/https://books.google.com/books?id=cXuCjDbxC1YC&pg=PA185 |url-status=live}}</ref> reducing the sprawling city to groups of inhabited buildings interspersed among large areas of ruins, vegetation, vineyards and market gardens.<ref>Norman John Greville Pounds. ''An Historical Geography of Europe 450 B.C.–A.D. 1330''. p. 192.</ref> It is generally thought the population of the city until 300 AD was 1 million (estimates range from 2 million to 750,000) declining to 750–800,000 in 400 AD, 450–500,000 in 450 AD and down to 80–100,000 in 500 AD (though it may have been twice this).<ref>''Rome in Late Antiquity'', Bernard Lancon, 2001, pp.&nbsp;14, pp. 115–119 {{ISBN|0-415-92976-8}}; ''Rome Profile of a City'', Richard Krautheimer, 2000, pp.&nbsp;4, 65 {{ISBN|0-691-04961-0}}; ''Ancient Rome, The Archaeology of the Eternal City'', Editors Jon Coulston and Hazel Dodge, pp. 142–165 {{ISBN|978-0-947816-55-1}}</ref>

The Bishop of Rome, called the [[Religion:Pope|Pope]], was important since the early days of Christianity because of the martyrdom of both the apostles Peter and Paul there. The Bishops of Rome were also seen (and still are seen by Catholics) as the successors of Peter, who is considered the first Bishop of Rome. The city thus became of increasing importance as the centre of the [[Organization:Catholic Church|Catholic Church]].

After the Lombard invasion of Italy (569–572), the city remained nominally Byzantine, but in reality, the popes pursued a policy of equilibrium between [[Place:Byzantine Empire|the Byzantines]], the [[History:Franks|Franks]], and the Lombards.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=19}} In 729, the Lombard king Liutprand donated the north Latium town of Sutri to the Church, starting its temporal power.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=19}} In 756, Pepin the Short, after having defeated the Lombards, gave the Pope temporal jurisdiction over the Roman Duchy and the Exarchate of Ravenna, thus creating the Papal States.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=19}} Since this period, three powers tried to rule the city: the pope, the nobility (together with the chiefs of militias, the judges, the Senate and the populace), and the Frankish king, as king of the Lombards, patricius, and Emperor.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=19}} These three parties (theocratic, republican, and imperial) were a characteristic of Roman life during the entire Middle Ages.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=19}} On Christmas night of 800, Charlemagne was crowned in Rome as emperor of the [[Religion:Holy Roman Empire|Holy Roman Empire]] by Pope Leo III: on that occasion, the city hosted for the first time the two powers whose struggle for control was to be a constant of the Middle Ages.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=19}}

[[File:Detail coronation Charles the Great (Francis 1st of France) by Pope Leo III (Leo X) Vatican 11.jpg|left|thumb|Detail from an illustration by Raphael, portraying the crowning of Charlemagne in Old Saint Peter's Basilica, on 25 December 800]]
In 846, Muslim Arabs unsuccessfully stormed the city's walls, but managed to loot St. Peter's and St. Paul's basilica, both outside the city wall.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/06/eust/ht06eust.htm |title=Italian Peninsula, 500–1000 A.D. |date=5 December 2008 |website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205030647/http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/06/eust/ht06eust.htm |archive-date=5 December 2008 |url-status=dead |access-date=22 August 2019}}</ref> After the decay of Carolingian power, Rome fell prey to feudal chaos: several noble families fought against the pope, the emperor, and each other. These were the times of Theodora and her daughter Marozia, concubines and mothers of several popes, and of Crescentius, a powerful feudal lord, who fought against the Emperors Otto II and Otto III.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=20}} The scandals of this period forced the papacy to reform itself: the election of the pope was reserved to the cardinals, and reform of the clergy was attempted. The driving force behind this renewal was the monk Ildebrando da Soana, who once elected pope under the name of Gregory VII became involved into the [[Religion:Investiture Controversy|Investiture Controversy]] against Emperor Henry IV.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=20}} Subsequently, Rome was sacked and burned by the Normans under Robert Guiscard who had entered the city in support of the Pope, then besieged in Castel Sant'Angelo.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=20}}

During this period, the city was autonomously ruled by a ''senatore'' or ''patrizio''. In the 12th century, this administration, like other European cities, evolved into the commune, a new form of social organisation controlled by the new wealthy classes.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=20}} Pope Lucius II fought against the Roman commune, and the struggle was continued by his successor Pope Eugenius III: by this stage, the commune, allied with the aristocracy, was supported by Arnaldo da Brescia, a monk who was a religious and social reformer.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=21}} After the pope's death, Arnaldo was taken prisoner by Adrianus IV, which marked the end of the commune's autonomy.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=21}} Under Pope Innocent III, whose reign marked the apogee of the papacy, the commune liquidated the senate, and replaced it with a ''Senatore'', who was subject to the pope.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=21}}

In this period, the papacy played a role of secular importance in [[Place:Western Europe|Western Europe]], often acting as arbitrators between Christian [[Social:Monarch|monarch]]s and exercising additional political powers.<ref name="Faus">Faus, José Ignacio Gonzáles. "''Autoridade da Verdade – Momentos Obscuros do Magistério Eclesiástico''". Capítulo VIII: Os papas repartem terras – Pág.: 64–65 e Capítulo VI: O papa tem poder temporal absoluto – Pág.: 49–55. Edições Loyola. {{ISBN|85-15-01750-4}}. Embora Faus critique profundamente o poder temporal dos papas ("''Mais uma vez isso salienta um dos maiores inconvenientes do status político dos sucessores de Pedro''" – pág.: 64), ele também admite um papel secular positivo por parte dos papas ("''Não podemos negar que intervenções papais desse gênero evitaram mais de uma guerra na Europa''" – pág.: 65).</ref><ref name="Papal Arbitration">{{cathEncy|wstitle=Papal Arbitration |author=Jarrett, Bede}}</ref><ref>Such as regulating the colonization of the [[Earth:New World|New World]]. See Treaty of Tordesillas and Inter caetera.</ref>

In 1266, Charles of Anjou, who was heading south to fight the Hohenstaufen on behalf of the pope, was appointed Senator. Charles founded the [[Organization:Sapienza University of Rome|Sapienza]], the university of Rome.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=21}} In that period the pope died, and the cardinals, summoned in Viterbo, could not agree on his successor. This angered the people of the city, who then unroofed the building where they met and imprisoned them until they had nominated the new pope; this marked the birth of the conclave.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=21}} In this period the city was also shattered by continuous fights between the aristocratic families: Annibaldi, Caetani, Colonna, Orsini, Conti, nested in their fortresses built above ancient Roman edifices, fought each other to control the papacy.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=21}}
[[File:Giorgio Vasar retour idéalisé de Grégoire XI à Rome.jpg|thumb|Pope Gregory XI returned to Rome in 1376 and ended the Avignon Papacy.]]

Pope Boniface VIII, born Caetani, was the last pope to fight for the church's universal domain; he proclaimed a crusade against the Colonna family and, in 1300, called for the first [[Religion:Jubilee (Christianity)|Jubilee of Christianity]], which brought millions of [[Religion:Christian pilgrimage|pilgrims]] to Rome.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=21}} However, his hopes were crushed by the French king Philip the Fair, who took him prisoner and killed him in Anagni.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=21}} Afterwards, a new pope faithful to the French was elected, and the papacy was briefly relocated to Avignon (1309–1377).{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=22}} During this period Rome was neglected, until a plebeian man, Cola di Rienzo, came to power.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=22}} An idealist and a lover of ancient Rome, Cola dreamed about a rebirth of the Roman Empire: after assuming power with the title of ''Tribuno'', his reforms were rejected by the populace.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=22}} Forced to flee, Cola returned as part of the entourage of Cardinal Albornoz, who was charged with restoring the Church's power in Italy.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=22}} Back in power for a short time, Cola was soon lynched by the populace, and Albornoz took possession of the city. In 1377, Rome became the seat of the papacy again under Gregory XI.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=22}} The return of the pope to Rome in that year unleashed the [[Religion:Western Schism|Western Schism]] (1377–1418), and for the next forty years, the city was affected by the divisions which rocked the Church.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=22}}

===Early modern history===
[[File:Wolf-Dietrich-Klebeband Städtebilder G 123 III.jpg|thumb|Almost 500 years old, this map of Rome by Mario Cartaro (from 1575) shows the city's primary monuments.]]
[[File:0 Castel et pont Sant'Angelo (1).JPG|thumb|right|Castel Sant'Angelo, or Hadrian's Mausoleum, is a Roman monument radically altered in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, built in 134 AD and crowned with 16th and 17th-century statues.]]
[[File:Fontana della Barcaccia restaurata, guardando verso Piazza Mignanelli.jpg|thumb|Fontana della Barcaccia, created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1629]]
In 1418, the Council of Constance settled the [[Religion:Western Schism|Western Schism]], and a Roman pope, Martin V, was elected.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=22}} This brought to Rome a century of internal peace, which marked the beginning of the [[Philosophy:Renaissance|Renaissance]].{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=22}} The ruling popes until the first half of the 16th century, from Nicholas V, founder of the Vatican Library, to Pius II, humanist and literate, from Sixtus IV, a warrior pope, to Alexander VI, immoral and [[Social:Nepotism|nepotist]], from Julius II, soldier and patron, to Leo X, who gave his name to this period ("the century of Leo X"), all devoted their energy to the greatness and the beauty of the Eternal City and to the patronage of the arts.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=22}}

During those years, the centre of the [[History:Italian Renaissance|Italian Renaissance]] moved to Rome from Florence. Majestic works, as the new Saint Peter's Basilica, the Sistine Chapel and ''Ponte Sisto'' (the first bridge to be built across the Tiber since antiquity, although on Roman foundations) were created. To accomplish that, the Popes engaged the best artists of the time, including Michelangelo, Perugino, Raphael, Ghirlandaio, Luca Signorelli, Botticelli, and Cosimo Rosselli.

The period was also infamous for papal corruption, with many Popes fathering children, and engaging in [[Social:Nepotism|nepotism]] and [[Religion:Simony|simony]]. The corruption of the Popes and the huge expenses for their building projects led, in part, to the Reformation and, in turn, the [[Religion:Counter-Reformation|Counter-Reformation]]. Under extravagant and rich popes, Rome was transformed into a centre of art, poetry, music, literature, education and culture. Rome became able to compete with other major European cities of the time in terms of wealth, grandeur, the arts, learning and architecture.

The Renaissance period changed the face of Rome dramatically, with works like the Pietà by Michelangelo and the frescoes of the Borgia Apartments. Rome reached the highest point of splendour under Pope Julius II (1503–1513) and his successors Leo X and Clement VII, both members of the Medici family.
[[File:Lingelbach, Johannes - Carneval in Rom - c. 1650-1651.jpg|thumb|Carnival in Rome, {{circa|1650}}, by Johannes Lingelbach]]
[[File:View of the Piazza Navona, Rome LACMA 49.17.3.jpg|thumb|''A View of the Piazza Navona, Rome'', by Hendrik Frans van Lint, {{circa|1730}}]]

In this twenty-year period, Rome became one of the greatest centres of art in the world. The old St. Peter's Basilica built by Emperor Constantine the Great<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13369b.htm |encyclopedia=Catholic Encyclopedia |title=Basilica of St. Peter |publisher=Newadvent.org |date=1 February 1912 |access-date=3 February 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100110133607/http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13369b.htm |archive-date=10 January 2010}}</ref> (which by then was in a dilapidated state) was demolished and a new one begun. The city hosted artists like Ghirlandaio, Perugino, Botticelli and Bramante, who built the temple of San Pietro in Montorio and planned a great project to renovate the Vatican. Raphael, who in Rome became one of the most famous painters of Italy, created frescoes in the Villa Farnesina, the Raphael's Rooms, plus many other famous paintings. Michelangelo started the decoration of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and executed the famous statue of the [[Biography:Moses|Moses]] for the tomb of Julius II.

Its economy was rich, with the presence of several Tuscan bankers, including Agostino Chigi, who was a friend of Raphael and a patron of arts. Before his early death, Raphael also promoted for the first time the preservation of the ancient ruins. The War of the League of Cognac caused the first plunder of the city in more than five hundred years since the previous sack; in 1527, the Landsknechts of Emperor Charles V [[History:Sack of Rome (1527)|sacked the city]], bringing an abrupt end to the golden age of the Renaissance in Rome.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=22}}

Beginning with the Council of Trent in 1545, the Church began the Counter-Reformation in response to the Reformation, a large-scale questioning of the Church's authority on spiritual matters and governmental affairs. This loss of confidence led to major shifts of power away from the Church.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=22}} Under the popes from Pius IV to Sixtus V, Rome became the centre of a reformed Catholicism and saw the building of new monuments which celebrated the papacy.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=23}} The popes and cardinals of the 17th and early 18th centuries continued the movement by having the city's landscape enriched with baroque buildings.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=23}}

This was another nepotistic age; the new aristocratic families (Barberini, Pamphili, Chigi, Rospigliosi, Altieri, Odescalchi) were protected by their respective popes, who built huge baroque buildings for their relatives.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=23}} During the [[Philosophy:Age of Enlightenment|Age of Enlightenment]], new ideas reached the Eternal City, where the papacy supported archaeological studies and improved the people's welfare.{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=22}} But not everything went well for the Church during the Counter-Reformation. There were setbacks in the attempts to assert the Church's power, a notable example being in 1773 when Pope Clement XIV was forced by secular powers to have the [[Organization:Suppression of the Society of Jesus|Jesuit order suppressed]].{{sfn | Bertarelli | 1925 | p=22}}

===Late modern and contemporary===
[[File:Breccia di Porta Pia Ademollo.jpg|thumb|Bersaglieri troops breaching the Aurelian Walls at Porta Pia during the ''Capture of Rome'' (1870), the final event of the Italian unification. Painting by Carlo Ademollo.]]

The rule of the Popes was interrupted by the short-lived Roman Republic (1798–1800), which was established under the influence of the {{wipe|French Revolution}}. The Papal States were restored in June 1800, but during Napoleon's reign Rome was annexed as a ''Département'' of the [[Place:First French Empire|French Empire]]: first as ''Département du Tibre'' (1808–1810) and then as ''Département Rome'' (1810–1814). After the fall of Napoleon, the Papal States were reconstituted by a decision of the [[Organization:Congress of Vienna|Congress of Vienna]] of 1814.

In 1849, a second Roman Republic was proclaimed during a year of revolutions in 1848. Two of the most influential figures of the Italian unification, [[Biography:Giuseppe Mazzini|Giuseppe Mazzini]] and Giuseppe Garibaldi, fought for the short-lived republic.

Rome then became the focus of hopes of Italian reunification after the rest of Italy was united as the [[History:Kingdom of Italy|Kingdom of Italy]] in 1861 with the temporary capital in [[Place:Florence|Florence]]. That year Rome was declared the capital of Italy even though it was still under the Pope's control. During the 1860s, the last vestiges of the Papal States were under French protection thanks to the foreign policy of Napoleon III. French troops were stationed in the region under Papal control. In 1870 the French troops were withdrawn due to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. Italian troops were able to capture Rome entering the city through a breach near Porta Pia. Pope Pius IX declared himself a prisoner in the Vatican. In 1871 the capital of Italy was moved from Florence to Rome.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12134b.htm |encyclopedia=Catholic Encyclopedia |title=Pope Pius IX |publisher=Newadvent.org |access-date=3 February 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308223209/http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12134b.htm |archive-date=8 March 2017}}</ref> In 1870 the population of the city was 212,000, all of whom lived with the area circumscribed by the ancient city, and in 1920, the population was 660,000. A significant portion lived outside the walls in the north and across the Tiber in the Vatican area.

[[File:Bombardamento di Roma.gif|thumb|right|Bombardment of Rome by Allied planes, 1943]]

Soon after World War I in late 1922 Rome witnessed the rise of [[Social:Italian Fascism|Italian Fascism]] led by Benito Mussolini, who led a march on the city. He did away with democracy by 1926, eventually declaring a new Italian Empire and allying Italy with [[Place:Nazi Germany|Nazi Germany]] in 1938. Mussolini demolished fairly large parts of the city centre in order to build wide avenues and squares which were supposed to celebrate the fascist regime and the resurgence and glorification of classical Rome.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cederna |first1=Antonio |title=Mussolini urbanista |date=1979 |publisher=Laterza |location=Bari |pages=passim |language=it}}</ref> The interwar period saw a rapid growth in the city's population which surpassed one million inhabitants soon after 1930. During World War II, due to the art treasuries and the presence of the Vatican, Rome largely escaped the tragic destiny of other European cities. However, on 19 July 1943, the San Lorenzo district was subject to Allied bombing raids, resulting in about 3,000 fatalities and 11,000 injuries, of whom another 1,500 died.<ref>{{cite news|last=Baily|first=Virginia|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/25/liberation-of-rome-italian-imagination|title=How the Nazi occupation of Rome has gripped Italy's cultural imagination|work=The Guardian|date=25 July 2015|access-date=5 January 2022}}</ref> Mussolini was arrested on 25 July 1943. On the date of the Italian Armistice 8 September 1943 the city was occupied by the Germans. The Pope declared Rome an [[Social:Open city|open city]]. It was liberated on 4 June 1944.

Rome developed greatly after the war as part of the "Italian economic miracle" of post-war reconstruction and modernisation in the 1950s and early 1960s. During this period, the years of ''la dolce vita'' ("the sweet life"), Rome became a fashionable city, with popular classic films such as ''Ben Hur'', ''Quo Vadis'', ''Roman Holiday'' and ''La Dolce Vita'' filmed in the city's iconic Cinecittà Studios. The rising trend in population growth continued until the mid-1980s when the ''comune'' had more than 2.8 million residents. After this, the population declined slowly as people began to move to nearby suburbs.

==Geography==
===Location===
[[File:Rome,_Italy_ESA24383157.jpeg|thumb|Satellite image of Rome]]

Rome is in the Lazio region of central Italy on the Tiber ({{lang-it|Tevere}}) river. The original settlement developed on hills that faced onto a ford beside the Tiber Island, the only natural ford of the river in this area. The Rome of the Kings was built on seven hills: the Aventine Hill, the Caelian Hill, the Capitoline Hill, the Esquiline Hill, the Palatine Hill, the Quirinal Hill, and the Viminal Hill. Modern Rome is also crossed by another river, the Aniene, which flows into the Tiber north of the historic centre.

Although the city centre is about {{cvt|24|km|mi|0}} inland from the Tyrrhenian Sea, the city territory extends to the shore, where the south-western district of Ostia is located. The altitude of the central part of Rome ranges from {{cvt|13|m|0}} above sea level (at the base of the Pantheon) to {{cvt|139|m|0}} above sea level (the peak of Monte Mario).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ravaglioli |first1=Armando |title=Roma anno 2750 ab Urbe condita |publisher=Tascabili Economici Newton |year=1997 |location=Rome |language=it |isbn=978-88-8183-670-3}}</ref> The ''Comune'' of Rome covers an overall area of about {{cvt|1285|km2|0}}, including many green areas.

===Parks and gardens===
[[File:Rome-VillaBorghese-TempleEsculape.jpg|thumb|The Temple of Aesculapius, in the Villa Borghese gardens]]

Public parks and nature reserves cover a large area in Rome, and the city has one of the largest areas of green space among European capitals.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.romaperkyoto.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=52 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080204030918/http://www.romaperkyoto.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=52 |archive-date=4 February 2008 |title=Green Areas |publisher=RomaPerKyoto.org |access-date=9 November 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The most notable part of this green space is represented by the large number of villas and landscaped gardens created by the Italian aristocracy. While most of the parks surrounding the villas were destroyed during the building boom of the late 19th century, some of them remain. The most notable of these are the Villa Borghese, Villa Ada, and Villa Doria Pamphili. Villa Doria Pamphili is west of the Gianicolo hill, comprising some {{cvt|1.8|km2|1|abbr=out|lk=out}}. The Villa Sciarra is on the hill, with playgrounds for children and shaded walking areas. In the nearby area of Trastevere, the Orto Botanico (Botanical Garden) is a cool and shady green space. The old Roman hippodrome (Circus Maximus) is another large green space: it has few trees but is overlooked by the Palatine and the Rose Garden ('roseto comunale'). Nearby is the lush Villa Celimontana, close to the gardens surrounding the Baths of Caracalla. The Villa Borghese garden is the best known large green space in Rome, with famous art galleries among its shaded walks. Overlooking Piazza del Popolo and the Spanish Steps are the gardens of Pincio and Villa Medici. There is also a notable pine wood at Castelfusano, near Ostia. Rome also has a number of regional parks of much more recent origin, including the Pineto Regional Park and the Appian Way Regional Park. There are also nature reserves at Marcigliana and at Tenuta di Castelporziano.

===Climate===
[[File:Doria Pamphili 6376.jpg|thumb|left|[[Biology:Stone pine|Stone pine]]s in the Villa Doria Pamphili]]

Rome has a Mediterranean climate ([[Earth:Köppen climate classification|Köppen climate classification]]: ''Csa''),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://koeppen-geiger.vu-wien.ac.at/ |title=World Map of Köppen−Geiger Climate Classification |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100906034159/http://koeppen-geiger.vu-wien.ac.at/ |archive-date=6 September 2010}}</ref> with hot, dry summers and mild, humid winters.

Its average annual temperature is above {{cvt|21|°C|°F}} during the day and {{cvt|9|°C|°F}} at night. In the coldest month, January, the average temperature is {{cvt|12.6|°C|°F}} during the day and {{cvt|2.1|°C|°F}} at night. In the warmest month, August, the average temperature is {{cvt|31.7|°C|°F}} during the day and {{cvt|17.3|°C|°F}} at night.

December, January and February are the coldest months, with a daily mean temperature of approximately {{cvt|8|°C|°F}}. Temperatures during these months generally vary between {{cvt|10|and|15|C|F}} during the day and between {{cvt|3|and|5|C|F}} at night, with colder or warmer spells occurring frequently. Snowfall is rare but not unheard of, with light snow or flurries occurring on some winters, generally without accumulation, and major snowfalls on a very rare occurrence (the most recent ones were in 2018, 2012 and 1986).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.meteo-net.it/articoli/storiconeve.aspx |title=Storia della neve a Roma |access-date=2 October 2014 |archive-date=27 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727130551/http://www.meteo-net.it/articoli/storiconeve.aspx}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Snow startles Rome on Europe's coldest day of the winter |website=The Mercury News |date=26 February 2018 |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/02/26/europe-snow-rome-coldest-winter-top-wire/ |access-date=22 August 2019 |archive-date=28 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328215424/https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/02/26/europe-snow-rome-coldest-winter-top-wire/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Roma, tutte le nevicate storiche in città dal '56 ad oggi |website=Corriere della sera |date=26 February 2018 |url=https://roma.corriere.it/cronaca/cards/roma-tutte-nevicate-storiche-citta-56-ad-oggi/grande-nevicata-56-piazza-san-pietro.shtml |access-date=13 July 2020 |archive-date=16 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200716094826/https://roma.corriere.it/cronaca/cards/roma-tutte-nevicate-storiche-citta-56-ad-oggi/grande-nevicata-56-piazza-san-pietro.shtml |url-status=live}}</ref>

The average [[Physics:Relative humidity|relative humidity]] is 75%, varying from 72% in July to 77% in November. Sea temperatures vary from a low of {{cvt|13.9|°C|°F}} in February to a high of {{cvt|25.0|°C|°F}} in August.<ref name="seatemperature.org2">[http://www.seatemperature.org/europe/italy/tor-san-lorenzo-december.htm Monthly Tor San Lorenzo water temperature chart] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200713181229/https://www.seatemperature.org/europe/italy/tor-san-lorenzo-december.htm |date=13 July 2020 }}, seatemperature.org.</ref>

The highest temperature ever recorded in Rome was {{cvt|42.9|°C|°F}} on 18 July 2023.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/17/europe-heatwave-italy-spain-record-climate/&ved=2ahUKEwjB2IzB-KyAAxWSFlkFHVZvCZcQFnoECAwQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3H2fe2kXpuftb6XNNcXZqg|title=Southern Europe soars to record temperatures as heat wave peaks|newspaper={{wipe|The Washington Post}}|first=Ian|last=Livingston|date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

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|Feb record high C = 23.0
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|Apr record high C = 30.0
|May record high C = 34.2
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|Jul record high C = 39.7
|Aug record high C = 40.6
|Sep record high C = 40.0
|Oct record high C = 32.0
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==Demographics== <!--linked-->
{{hatnote|'People of Rome' redirects here. For the ancient Roman political concept, see SPQR. For the 2003 film, see People of Rome (film).}}
[[File:Rome (comune) population pyramid in 2022.svg|thumb|Rome (comune) [[Population pyramid|age-sex pyramid]] in 2022]]
{{Historical populations
|type=
|footnote= Source: ISTAT, 2022
|1861 |194500
|1871 |212432
|1881 |273952
|1901 |422411
|1911 |518917
|1921 |660235
|1931 |930926
|1936 |1150589
|1951 |1651754
|1961 |2188160
|1971 |2781993
|1981 |2840259
|1991 |2775250
|2001 |2663182
|2011 |2617175
|2021 |2770226
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By 550 BC, Rome was the second largest city in Italy after only Taras (modern Taranto) on the Salento Peninsula.{{Citation needed|date=August 2019}} It had an area of about {{cvt|285|ha|abbr=off}} and an estimated population of 35,000. Other sources suggest the population was just under 100,000 from 600 to 500 BC.<ref>Cornell (1995) 204–205</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vL2ntMk7j-4C&pg=PA78 |title=Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome |author=Gregory S. Aldrete |date=30 January 2007 |publisher=JHU Press |access-date=13 July 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151130043744/https://books.google.com/books?id=vL2ntMk7j-4C&pg=PA78 |archive-date=30 November 2015 |isbn=978-0-8018-8405-4}}</ref> When the Republic was founded in 509 BC the census recorded a population of 130,000.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ward |first1=Lorne H. |title=Roman Population, Territory, Tribe, City, and Army Size from the Republic's Founding to the Veientane War, 509 B.C.-400 B.C. |journal=The American Journal of Philology |date=1990 |volume=111 |issue=1 |pages=5–39 |doi=10.2307/295257 |jstor=295257 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/295257 |access-date=12 February 2022 |issn=0002-9475}}</ref> The republic included the city itself and the immediate surroundings. Other sources suggest a population of 150,000 in 500 BC. It surpassed 300,000 by 150 BC.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fHtvowE9bt8C&pg=PA168 |title=The History of Human Populations: Forms of growth and decline |author=P.M.G. Harris |access-date=13 July 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101113738/https://books.google.com/books?id=fHtvowE9bt8C&pg=PA168 |archive-date=1 January 2016 |isbn=978-0-275-97131-1 |year=2001|publisher=Greenwood Publishing }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Herreros |first=Francisco |url=https://www.academia.edu/1458998 |title=Size and Virtue |journal=European Journal of Political Theory |volume=6 |issue=4 |pages=463–482 |access-date=13 July 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904013536/http://www.academia.edu/1458998/Size_and_Virtue |archive-date=4 September 2015 |doi=10.1177/1474885107080651 |year=2007 |s2cid=145139011}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |jstor=295257 |title=Roman Population, Territory, Tribe, City, and Army Size from the Republic's Founding to the Veientane War, 509 B.C.–400 B.C. |first=Lorne H. |last=Ward |date=1 January 1990 |journal=The American Journal of Philology |volume=111 |issue=1 |pages=5–39 |doi=10.2307/295257}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|chapter=Chapter 1: Warfare and the Army in Early Rome |author=Rich, John |title=A Companion to the Roman Army |year=2007 |editor=Erdkamp, Paul |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |isbn=978-1-4051-2153-8 |chapter-url=http://media.johnwiley.com.au/product_data/excerpt/14/14443392/1444339214.pdf |access-date=24 September 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127113433/http://media.johnwiley.com.au/product_data/excerpt/14/14443392/1444339214.pdf |archive-date=27 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cg7JYZO_nEMC&pg=PA81 |title=Cities and Economic Development: From the Dawn of History to the Present |author=Paul Bairoch |date=18 June 1991 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |access-date=13 July 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101113738/https://books.google.com/books?id=Cg7JYZO_nEMC&pg=PA81 |archive-date=1 January 2016 |isbn=978-0-226-03466-9}}</ref>

The size of the city at the time of the Emperor Augustus is a matter of speculation, with estimates based on grain distribution, grain imports, aqueduct capacity, city limits, population density, census reports, and assumptions about the number of unreported women, children and slaves providing a very wide range. Glenn Storey estimates 450,000 people, Whitney Oates estimates 1.2 million, Neville Morely provides a rough estimate of 800,000 and excludes earlier suggestions of 2 million.<ref>N.Morley, ''Metropolis and Hinterland'' (Cambridge, 1996) 33–39</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Duiker |first1=William |last2=Spielvogel |first2=Jackson |title=World History |date=2001 |publisher=Wadsworth |isbn=978-0-534-57168-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/worldhistoryto1500duik/page/149 |url-access=registration |page=149 |edition=Third}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Storey |first=Glenn R. |year=1997 |title=The population of ancient Rome |journal=Antiquity |publisher=Cambridge University Press |volume=71 |issue=274 |pages=966–978 |doi=10.1017/s0003598x00085859 |issn=0003-598X|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Oates |first=Whitney J. |url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Journals/CP/29/2/Population_of_Rome*.html |title=The Population of Rome |journal=Classical Philology |publisher=University of Chicago Press |volume=29 |issue=2 |year=1934 |issn=0009-837X |doi=10.1086/361701 |pages=101–116 |s2cid=154126945 |access-date=20 February 2021 |archive-date=29 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210529132834/https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Journals/CP/29/2/Population_of_Rome%2A.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Estimates of the city's population towards and after the end of the Roman empire also vary. A.H.M. Jones estimated the population at 650,000 in the mid-fifth century. The damage caused by the sackings may have been overestimated. The population had already started to decline from the late fourth century onward, although around the middle of the fifth century it seems that Rome continued to be the most populous city of the two parts of the Empire.<ref>Arnold HM Jones The Decline of the Ancient World, Lonmans, Green and Co. Ltd, London 1966</ref> According to Krautheimer it was still close to 800,000 in 400 AD; had declined to 500,000 by 452, and dwindled to perhaps 100,000 in 500 AD. After the Gothic Wars, 535–552, the population may have dwindled temporarily to 30,000. During the pontificate of Pope Gregory I (590–604), it may have reached 90,000, augmented by refugees.<ref>Richard Krautheimer, Rome, Profile of a City, 312–1308, 2000 p. 65 {{ISBN|0-691-04961-0}}</ref> Lancon estimates 500,000 based on the number of 'incisi' enrolled as eligible to receive bread, oil and wine rations; the number fell to 120,000 in the reform of 419.<ref>Bernard Lancon, Rome in Late Antiquity, 2001 p. 14 {{ISBN|0-415-92976-8}}</ref> Neil Christie, citing free rations for the poorest, estimated 500,000 in the mid-fifth century and still a quarter of a million at the end of the century.<ref>Neil Christie, From Constantine to Charlemagne, An Archaeology of Italy 300–800 A.D. 2006 p. 61, {{ISBN|978-1-85928-421-6}}</ref> Novel 36 of Emperor Valentinian III records 3.629 million pounds of pork to be distributed to the needy at 5 lbs. per month for the five winter months, sufficient for 145,000 recipients. This has been used to suggest a population of just under 500,000. Supplies of grain remained steady until the seizure of the remaining provinces of North Africa in 439 by the Vandals, and may have continued to some degree afterwards for a while. The city's population declined to less than 50,000 people in the [[History:Early Middle Ages|Early Middle Ages]] from 700 AD onward. It continued to stagnate or shrink until the [[Philosophy:Renaissance|Renaissance]].<ref>P. Llewellyn, ''Rome in the Dark Ages'' (London 1993), p. 97.</ref>

When the [[History:Kingdom of Italy|Kingdom of Italy]] annexed Rome in 1870, the city had a population of about 225,000. Less than half the city within the walls was built up in 1881 when the population recorded was 275,000. This increased to 600,000 by the eve of World War I. The [[Social:Fascism|Fascist]] regime of Mussolini tried to block an excessive demographic rise of the city but failed to prevent it from reaching one million people by the early 1930s.{{citation needed|date=March 2014}}{{clarify|why?|date=March 2014}} Population growth continued after the Second World War, helped by a post-war economic boom. A construction boom also created many suburbs during the 1950s and 1960s.

In mid-2010, there were 2,754,440 residents in the city proper, while some 4.2&nbsp;million people lived in the greater Rome area (which can be approximately identified with its administrative metropolitan city, with a population density of about 800 inhabitants/km<sup>2</sup> stretching over more than {{cvt|5,000|km2}}). Minors (children ages 18 and younger) totalled 17.00% of the population compared to pensioners who number 20.76%. This compares with the Italian average of 18.06% (minors) and 19.94% (pensioners). The average age of a Roman resident is 43 compared to the Italian average of 42. In the five years between 2002 and 2007, the population of Rome grew by 6.54%, while Italy as a whole grew by 3.56%.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://demo.istat.it/bil2007/index.html |title=Statistiche demografiche ISTAT |publisher=Demo.istat.it |access-date=3 February 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090426215446/http://demo.istat.it/bil2007/index.html |archive-date=26 April 2009}}</ref> The current{{when|date=August 2017}} birth rate of Rome is 9.10 births per 1,000 inhabitants compared to the Italian average of 9.45 births.{{citation needed|date=August 2017}}

The urban area of Rome extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of around 3.9 million.<ref name=World_Urban_Areas>{{Cite web |url=http://www.demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf |title=Demographia World Urban Areas |date=January 2015 |website=demographia.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517065701/http://www.demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf |archive-date=17 May 2017 |url-status=unfit}}</ref> Between 3.2 and 4.2 million people live in the Rome metropolitan area.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espon.eu/programme/projects/espon-2006/studies-and-scientific-support-projects/study-urban-functions |title=Study on Urban Functions (Project 1.4.3) |date=2006 |website=European Spatial Planning Observation Network |at=Ch. 3 |access-date=22 August 2019 |archive-date=22 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190822032242/https://www.espon.eu/programme/projects/espon-2006/studies-and-scientific-support-projects/study-urban-functions |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&language=en&pcode=tgs00080&plugin=1 |title=Total population in Urban Audit cities, Larger Urban Zone |date=2009 |website=Eurostat |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120924142951/http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&language=en&pcode=tgs00080&plugin=1 |archive-date=24 September 2012 |url-status=unfit |access-date=22 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://esa.un.org/wup2009/unup/index.asp?panel=2 |title=World Urbanization Prospects (2009 revision) |date=2010 |website={{wipe|United Nations}} Department of Economic and Social Affairs |at=(Table A.12. Data for 2007) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100425020103/http://esa.un.org/wup2009/unup/index.asp?panel=2 |archive-date=25 April 2010 |url-status=dead |access-date=22 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=OECD |title=OECD Territorial Reviews Competitive Cities in the Global Economy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kBsfY-Pe2Q4C |year=2006 |publisher=OECD Publishing |at=Table 1.1 |isbn=978-92-64-02708-4 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016032356/https://books.google.com/books?id=kBsfY-Pe2Q4C |archive-date=16 October 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.citypopulation.de/world/Agglomerations.html |title=Major Agglomerations of the World |last=Brinkoff |first=Thomas |date=1 January 2019 |website=Population Statistics and Maps |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100704112702/http://www.citypopulation.de/world/Agglomerations.html |archive-date=4 July 2010 |url-status=unfit}}</ref>

===Origin groups===
[[File:Esquilino da s M Maggiore 1240961.JPG|thumb|right|The Esquilino ''rione'']]

According to the latest statistics conducted by ISTAT,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://demo.istat.it/str2009/index.html |title=Statistiche demografiche ISTAT |publisher=Demo.istat.it |access-date=30 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110117015639/http://demo.istat.it/str2009/index.html |archive-date=17 January 2011}}</ref> approximately 9.5% of the population consists of non-Italians. About half of the immigrant population consists of those of various other European origins (chiefly Romanian, Polish, Ukrainian, and Albanian) numbering a combined total of 131,118 or 4.7% of the population. The remaining 4.8% are those with non-European origins, chiefly Filipinos (26,933), Bangladeshis (12,154), and Chinese (10,283).

The Esquilino ''rione'', off Termini Railway Station, has evolved into a largely immigrant neighbourhood. It is perceived as Rome's Chinatown. Immigrants from more than a hundred different countries reside there. A commercial district, Esquilino contains restaurants featuring many kinds of international cuisine. There are wholesale clothes shops. Of the 1,300 or so commercial premises operating in the district 800 are Chinese-owned; around 300 are run by immigrants from other countries around the world; 200 are owned by Italians.<ref>{{cite web |last=Pretto |first=Emiliano |title=Rome Post – what's happening in Rome |website=romepost.it |date=21 June 2009 |url=http://www.romepost.it/Rioni_of_Rome_Esquilino.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090621033439/http://www.romepost.it/Rioni_of_Rome_Esquilino.htm | archive-date=21 June 2009 | url-status=unfit | access-date=22 August 2019}}</ref>

===Language===
[[Image:Nove-bone.jpg|thumb|Advertisement in Romanesco dialect at a subway station in Rome]]

Rome's historic contribution to language in a worldwide sense is much more extensive, however. Through the process of [[Social:Romanization (cultural)|Romanization]], the peoples of Italy, Gallia, the [[Place:Iberian Peninsula|Iberian Peninsula]] and Dacia developed languages which derive directly from Latin and were adopted in large areas of the world, all through cultural influence, colonisation and migration. Moreover, also modern English, because of the Norman Conquest, borrowed a large percentage of its vocabulary from the Latin language. The Roman or Latin alphabet is the most widely used writing system in the world used by the greatest number of languages.<ref>{{cite book |author=Ostler, N. |year=2007 |title=Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin |location=London |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-0-8027-1679-8}}</ref>

The medieval Roman dialect belonged to the southern family of Italian dialects, and was thus much closer to the Neapolitan language than to the Florentine.<ref name=sie/><ref>{{cite web|title=Romanesco|url=http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/romanesco/|website=www.treccani.it|publisher=Treccani|access-date=6 February 2015}}</ref> A typical example of Romanesco of that period is ''{{ill|Cronica dell'Anonimo Romano|lt=Vita di Cola di Rienzo|it}}'' ("Life of Cola di Rienzo"), written by an anonymous Roman during the 14th century.<ref name=sie>{{cite web|title=La Parlata romana|url=http://online.unistrasi.it/Avvisi/Laparlataromana.pdf|website=online.unistrasi.it|publisher=Università per stranieri di Siena|access-date=6 February 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206110011/http://online.unistrasi.it/Avvisi/Laparlataromana.pdf|archive-date=6 February 2015}}</ref> Starting with the 16th century, the Roman dialect underwent a stronger and stronger influence from the Tuscan dialect (from which modern Italian derives) starting with the reigns of the two Medici popes (Leo X and Clement VII) and with the [[History:Sack of Rome (1527)|Sack of Rome in 1527]], two events which provoked a large immigration from Tuscany.<ref>{{cite web|last1=D'Achille|first1=Paolo|title=Italiano di Roma|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/italiano-di-roma_(Enciclopedia_dell'Italiano)/|website=www.treccani.it|publisher=Treccani|access-date=6 February 2015}}</ref><ref name=dia>{{cite web|title=Dialetti|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/dialetti_(Enciclopedia_dell'Italiano)/|website=www.treccani.it|publisher=Treccani|access-date=6 February 2015}}</ref> Therefore, current Romanesco has grammar and roots that are rather different from other dialects in Central Italy.<ref name=dia/>

===Religion===
[[File:San Giovanni in Laterano 2021.jpg|thumb|right|Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, Rome's Cathedral, built in 324, and partly rebuilt between 1660 and 1734]]
[[File:Santa Maria Maggiore Front.JPG|thumb|One of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome, Santa Maria Maggiore is the city's largest Catholic Marian church.]]

Much like the rest of Italy, Rome is predominantly [[Religion:Christianity|Christian]], and the city has been an important centre of religion and [[Religion:Christian pilgrimage|pilgrimage]] for centuries, the base of the ancient Roman religion with the pontifex maximus and later the seat of the [[Organization:Holy See|Vatican]] and the pope. Before the arrival of the Christians in Rome, the [[Religion:Religion in ancient Rome|Religio Romana]] (literally, the "Roman Religion") was the major religion of the city in classical antiquity. The first gods held sacred by the Romans were [[Religion:Jupiter (mythology)|Jupiter]], the Most High, and [[Religion:Mars (mythology)|Mars]], the god of war, and father of Rome's twin founders, Romulus and Remus, according to tradition. Other deities such as [[Biology:Vesta (mythology)|Vesta]] and Minerva were honoured. Rome was also the base of several mystery cults, such as Mithraism. Later, after St Peter and [[Biography:Paul the Apostle|St Paul]] were martyred in the city, and the first Christians began to arrive, Rome became Christian, and the Old St. Peter's Basilica was constructed in 313 AD. Despite some interruptions (such as the Avignon papacy), Rome has for centuries been the home of the Roman Catholic Church and the [[Religion:Pope|Bishop of Rome]], otherwise known as the Pope.

Despite the fact that Rome is home to the [[Religion:Vatican City|Vatican City]] and St. Peter's Basilica, Rome's cathedral is the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, in the south-east of the city centre. There are around 900 churches in Rome in total. Aside from the cathedral itself, some others of note include the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, the Basilica di San Clemente, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and the Church of the Gesù. There are also the ancient Catacombs of Rome underneath the city. Numerous highly important religious educational institutions are also in Rome, such as the Pontifical Lateran University, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Pontifical Gregorian University, and [[Religion:Pontifical Oriental Institute|Pontifical Oriental Institute]].

Since the end of the Roman Republic, Rome is also the centre of an important Jewish community,<ref>Coarelli, p. 308.</ref> which was once based in Trastevere, and later in the Roman Ghetto. There lies also the major synagogue in Rome, the ''Tempio Maggiore''.

The territory of [[Religion:Vatican City|Vatican City]] is part of the ''Mons Vaticanus'' (Vatican Hill), and of the adjacent former Vatican Fields, where St. Peter's Basilica, the Apostolic Palace, the Sistine Chapel, and museums were built, along with various other buildings. The area was part of the Roman rione of Borgo until 1929. Being separated from the city on the west bank of the Tiber, the area was a suburb that was protected by being included within the walls of Leo IV, later expanded by the current fortification walls of Paul III, Pius IV, and Urban VIII. When the Lateran Treaty of 1929 that created the Vatican state was being prepared, the boundaries of the proposed territory were influenced by the fact that much of it was all but enclosed by this loop.

Rome has been a major [[Religion:Christian pilgrimage|Christian pilgrimage]] site since the [[History:Middle Ages|Middle Ages]]. People from all over the Christian world visit Vatican City, within the city of Rome, the seat of the papacy. The city became a major pilgrimage site during the Middle Ages. Apart from brief periods as an independent city during the [[History:Middle Ages|Middle Ages]], Rome kept its status as Papal capital and holy city for centuries, even when the Papacy briefly relocated to Avignon (1309–1377). Catholics believe that the Vatican is the last resting place of St. Peter. Pilgrimages to Rome can involve visits to many sites, both within Vatican City and in Italian territory. A popular stopping point is the Pilate's stairs: these are, according to the Christian tradition, the steps that led up to the praetorium of [[Religion:Pontius Pilate|Pontius Pilate]] in [[Place:Jerusalem|Jerusalem]], which Jesus Christ stood on during his Passion on his way to trial.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1554541/Steps-Jesus-walked-to-trial-restored-to-glory.html |title=Steps Jesus walked to trial restored to glory |last=Moore |first=Malcolm |date=13 June 2007 |work=The Telegraph |access-date=22 August 2019 |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235 |archive-date=30 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200430054419/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1554541/Steps-Jesus-walked-to-trial-restored-to-glory.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

{{wide image|Plac_św._Piotra_(St._Peter's_Basilica).jpg|1000px|alt=Panorama of St. Peter's Square|St. Peter's Square in [[Religion:Vatican City|Vatican City]]}}

==Government==
[[File:Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome - 2498.jpg|thumb|Palazzo Senatorio on Capitoline Hill, current seat of the Mayor of Rome]]
[[File:Quirinale palazzo e obelisco con dioscuri Roma.jpg|thumb|right|Palazzo del Quirinale, current seat of the President of the Italian Republic]]

Rome constitutes a comune ''speciale'', named ''"Roma Capitale"'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.comune.roma.it/wps/portal/pcr?contentId=NEW151061&jp_pagecode=newsview.wp&ahew=contentId:jp_pagecode |title=Roma diventa Capitale |access-date=6 March 2012 |language=it |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205130517/http://www.comune.roma.it/wps/portal/pcr?contentId=NEW151061&jp_pagecode=newsview.wp&ahew=contentId:jp_pagecode |archive-date=5 February 2012}}</ref> and is the largest both in terms of land area and population among the 8,101 ''comuni'' of Italy. It is governed by a mayor and a city council. The seat of the ''comune'' is the ''Palazzo Senatorio'' on the Capitoline Hill, the historic seat of the city government. The local administration in Rome is commonly referred to as ''"Campidoglio"'', the Italian name of the hill.

Since 1972, the city has been divided into administrative areas, called ''municipi'' (sing. ''municipio'') (until 2001 named ''circoscrizioni'').<ref>{{cite web |title=Territorio |publisher=Comune di Roma |access-date=5 October 2009 |url=http://www.comune.roma.it/was/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_21L?menuPage=/Area_di_navigazione/Sezioni_del_portale/Dipartimenti_e_altri_uffici/Dipartimento_XV/www-9-romastatistica-9-it/Territorio/&flagSub= |language=it}}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> They were created for administrative reasons to increase decentralisation in the city. Each ''municipio'' is governed by a president and a council of twenty-five members who are elected by its residents every five years. The ''municipi'' frequently cross the boundaries of the traditional, non-administrative divisions of the city. The municipi were originally 20, then 19,<ref>In 1992 after a [[Social:Referendum|referendum]] the XIX Circoscrizione became the ''Comune'' of Fiumicino</ref> and in 2013, their number was reduced to 15.<ref>{{cite news |title=Roma, sì all'accorpamento dei municipi: il Consiglio li riduce da 19 a 15 |url=http://www.ilmessaggero.it/roma/campidoglio/roma_municipi_accorpamento_consiglio_s_riduzione/notizie/257651.shtml# |access-date=13 March 2013 |newspaper=Il Messaggero |date=11 March 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130316064219/http://www.ilmessaggero.it/roma/campidoglio/roma_municipi_accorpamento_consiglio_s_riduzione/notizie/257651.shtml |archive-date=16 March 2013}}</ref>

Rome is also divided into differing types of non-administrative units. The historic centre is divided into 22 ''rioni'', all of which are located within the Aurelian Walls except Prati and Borgo. These originate from the 14 regions of Augustan Rome, which evolved in the Middle Ages into the medieval rioni.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.romeartlover.it/Rioni.html |title=The "Rioni" of Rome |publisher=Romeartlover.it |access-date=3 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090519060423/http://www.romeartlover.it/Rioni.html |archive-date=19 May 2009}}</ref> In the [[Philosophy:Renaissance|Renaissance]], under Pope Sixtus V, they again reached fourteen, and their boundaries were finally defined under Pope Benedict XIV in 1743.

Rome is the principal town of the Metropolitan City of Rome, operative since 1 January 2015. The Metropolitan City replaced the old provincia di Roma, which included the city's metropolitan area and extends further north until Civitavecchia. The Metropolitan City of Rome is the largest by area in Italy. At {{cvt|5352|km2}}, its dimensions are comparable to the region of Liguria. Moreover, the city is also the capital of the Lazio region.<ref>Artour. [https://ar-tour.com/guides/in-sea-there-are-crocodiles/rome.aspx Rome] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128112717/https://ar-tour.com/guides/in-sea-there-are-crocodiles/rome.aspx |date=28 November 2020 }}. Retrieved August 25th, 2020.</ref>

Rome is the national capital of Italy and is the seat of the Italian Government. The official residences of the President of the Italian Republic and the Italian Prime Minister, the seats of both houses of the Italian Parliament and that of the Italian Constitutional Court are located in the historic centre. The state ministries are spread out around the city; these include the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is located in Palazzo della Farnesina near the Olympic stadium.

===International relations===
[[File:FAO sede.jpg|thumb|FAO headquarters in Rome, Circo Massimo]]

Among the global cities, Rome is unique in having two sovereign entities located entirely within its city limits, the Holy See, represented by the Vatican City State, and the territorially smaller [[Religion:Sovereign Military Order of Malta|Sovereign Military Order of Malta]]. The Vatican is an enclave of the Italian capital city and a sovereign possession of the [[Organization:Holy See|Holy See]], which is the Diocese of Rome and the supreme government of the Roman Catholic Church. For this reason, Rome has sometimes been described as the capital of two states.<ref>{{cite web |title=Discorsi del Presidente Ciampi |url=http://www.quirinale.it/qrnw/statico/ex-presidenti/Ciampi/dinamico/discorso.asp?id=21495 |publisher=Presidenza della Repubblica |access-date=17 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053829/http://www.quirinale.it/qrnw/statico/ex-presidenti/Ciampi/dinamico/discorso.asp?id=21495 |archive-date=21 September 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Le istituzioni salutano Benedetto XVI |url=http://www.repubblica.it/2005/d/sezioni/esteri/nuovopapa/reazitalia/reazitalia.html |newspaper=La Repubblica |access-date=17 May 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130302053332/http://www.repubblica.it/2005/d/sezioni/esteri/nuovopapa/reazitalia/reazitalia.html |archive-date=2 March 2013}}</ref> Rome is the seat of the so-called "Polo Romano" made up by three main international agencies of the {{wipe|United Nations}}: the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the [[Organization:World Food Programme|World Food Programme]] (WFP) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.parlamento.it/application/xmanager/projects/parlamento/file/repository/affariinternazionali/osservatorio/approfondimenti/PI0093.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402143221/http://www.parlamento.it/application/xmanager/projects/parlamento/file/repository/affariinternazionali/osservatorio/approfondimenti/PI0093.pdf |url-status=dead |title=parlamento.it |archive-date=2 April 2015}}</ref>

Rome has traditionally been involved in the process of European political integration. The Treaties of the EU are located in Palazzo della Farnesina. In 1957 the city hosted the signing of the Treaty of Rome, which established the European Economic Community (predecessor to the [[Social:European Union|European Union]]), and also played host to the official signing of the proposed European Constitution in July 2004. Rome is the seat of the European Olympic Committee and of the NATO Defense College. The city is the place where the Statute of the International Criminal Court and the European Convention on Human Rights were formulated. The city hosts also other important international entities such as the IDLO (International Development Law Organisation), the ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property) and the [[Organization:UNIDROIT|UNIDROIT]] (International Institute for the Unification of Private Law).

====Twin towns and sister cities====

Since 9 April 1956, Rome is exclusively and reciprocally twinned only with:
* {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Place:Paris|Paris]], France, 1956
: ''Solo Parigi è degna di Roma; solo Roma è degna di Parigi.'' {{in lang|it}}
: ''Seule Paris est digne de Rome; seule Rome est digne de Paris.'' {{in lang|fr}}
: "Only Paris is worthy of Rome; only Rome is worthy of Paris."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.comune.roma.it/pcr/it/relaz_int_sadi.page |title=Gemellaggio Roma – Parigi – (1955) |format=PDF |location=Paris |date=30 January 1956 |publisher=Commune Roma |language=fr |work=Roma – Relazioni Internazionali Bilaterali |access-date=10 September 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160709150804/http://www.comune.roma.it/pcr/it/relaz_int_sadi.page |archive-date=9 July 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.comune.roma.it/pcr/it/relaz_int_sadi.page |title=Dichiarazione congiunta Roma – Parigi – (2014) |format=PDF |location=Rome |date=1 October 2014 |publisher=Commune Roma |language=fr |work=Roma – Relazioni Internazionali Bilaterali |access-date=10 September 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160709150804/http://www.comune.roma.it/pcr/it/relaz_int_sadi.page |archive-date=9 July 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.paris.fr/portail/english/Portal.lut?page_id=8139&document_type_id=5&document_id=29903&portlet_id=18784 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120905235843/http://www.paris.fr/portail/english/Portal.lut?page_id=8139&document_type_id=5&document_id=29903&portlet_id=18784 |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 September 2012 |title=Twinning with Rome |access-date=27 May 2010}}</ref><ref name="Paris1">{{cite web |url=http://www.paris.fr/portail/accueil/Portal.lut?page_id=6587&document_type_id=5&document_id=16468&portlet_id=14974 |work=Mairie de Paris |title=Les pactes d'amitié et de coopération |access-date=14 October 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011162140/http://paris.fr/portail/accueil/Portal.lut?page_id=6587&document_type_id=5&document_id=16468&portlet_id=14974 |archive-date=11 October 2007}}</ref><ref name="Paris2">{{cite web |url=http://www.paris.fr/en/city_government/international/special_partners.asp |work=Mairie de Paris |title=International relations: special partners |access-date=14 October 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070806151309/http://www.paris.fr/en/city_government/international/special_partners.asp |archive-date=6 August 2007}}</ref>

Rome's other partner cities are:<ref name="partner cities">{{cite web |url=https://www.comune-italia.it/comune-roma.html |title=Comune di Roma |publisher=Commune of Rome |access-date=18 November 2020 |archive-date=2 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202155047/https://www.comune-italia.it/comune-roma.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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* {{flagdeco|BOL}} Achacachi, Bolivia<ref name="partner cities"/>
* {{flagdeco|ALG}} [[Place:Algiers|Algiers]], Algeria<ref name="partner cities"/>
* {{flagdeco|PRC}} [[Place:Beijing|Beijing]], China<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ebeijing.gov.cn/Sister_Cities/Sister_City/ |title=Sister Cities |publisher=Beijing Municipal Government |access-date=23 June 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120818133858/http://www.ebeijing.gov.cn/Sister_Cities/Sister_City/ |archive-date=18 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.paris.fr/portail/accueil/Portal.lut?page_id=6587&document_type_id=5&document_id=16467&portlet_id=14974 |title=Le jumelage avec Rome |access-date=9 July 2008 |publisher=Municipalité de Paris |language=fr |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216141833/http://www.paris.fr/portail/accueil/Portal.lut?page_id=6587&document_type_id=5&document_id=16467&portlet_id=14974 |archive-date=16 December 2008}}</ref>
* {{flagdeco|SRB}} [[Place:Belgrade|Belgrade]], Serbia<ref name="partner cities"/>
* {{flagdeco|BRA}} [[Engineering:Brasília|Brasília]], Brazil<ref name="partner cities"/>
* {{flagdeco|ARG}} [[Place:Buenos Aires|Buenos Aires]], Argentina<ref name="partner cities"/>
* {{flagdeco|EGY}} [[Place:Cairo|Cairo]], Egypt<ref name="partner cities"/>
* {{flagdeco|US}} Cincinnati, United States<ref name="partner cities"/>
* {{flagdeco|UKR}} [[Place:Kyiv|Kyiv]], Ukraine<ref name="partner cities"/>
* {{flagdeco|Syria}} Kobanî, Syria<ref name="Rome declares Kobane 'sister city'">{{cite web |url=https://www.kurdishquestion.com/oldarticle.php?aid=rome-declares-kobane-sister-city |title=Rome declares Kobane 'sister city' |access-date=18 December 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221110518/https://www.kurdishquestion.com/oldarticle.php?aid=rome-declares-kobane-sister-city |archive-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
* {{flagdeco|POL}} Kraków, Poland<ref name="Kraków partnerships">{{cite web |url=http://www.krakow.pl/otwarty_na_swiat/2531,kat,0,5,miasta_partnerskie.html |title=Kraków – Miasta Partnerskie |access-date=10 August 2013 |work=Miejska Platforma Internetowa Magiczny Kraków |language=pl |trans-title=Kraków – Partnership Cities |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130702010825/http://www.krakow.pl/otwarty_na_swiat/2531%2Ckat%2C0%2C5%2Cmiasta_partnerskie.html |archive-date=2 July 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* {{flagdeco|ESP}} [[Place:Madrid|Madrid]], Spain<ref name="hermanadas">{{cite web |title=Mapa Mundi de las ciudades hermanadas |publisher=Ayuntamiento de Madrid |url=http://www.munimadrid.es/portal/site/munimadrid/menuitem.dbd5147a4ba1b0aa7d245f019fc08a0c/?vgnextoid=4e84399a03003110VgnVCM2000000c205a0aRCRD&vgnextchannel=4e98823d3a37a010VgnVCM100000d90ca8c0RCRD&vgnextfmt=especial1&idContenido=1da69a4192b5b010VgnVCM100000d90ca8c0RCRD |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120526204453/http://www.munimadrid.es/portal/site/munimadrid/menuitem.dbd5147a4ba1b0aa7d245f019fc08a0c/?vgnextoid=4e84399a03003110VgnVCM2000000c205a0aRCRD&vgnextchannel=4e98823d3a37a010VgnVCM100000d90ca8c0RCRD&vgnextfmt=especial1&idContenido=1da69a4192b5b010VgnVCM100000d90ca8c0RCRD |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 May 2012 |access-date=17 October 2009}}</ref>
* {{flagdeco|PAK}} Multan, Pakistan<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jaffery |first1=Owais |date=9 June 2011 |title=Sister cities: Multan celebrates Italy's national day |url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/185116/sister-cities-multan-celebrates-italys-national-day/ |location=Pakistan |newspaper=The Express Tribune |publication-date=9 June 2011 |access-date=29 February 2020 |archive-date=25 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225021849/https://tribune.com.pk/story/185116/sister-cities-multan-celebrates-italys-national-day |url-status=live}}</ref>
* {{flagdeco|IND}} [[Place:New Delhi|New Delhi]], India<ref name="partner cities"/>
* {{flagdeco|US}} {{wipe|New York City}}, United States<ref name="New York sisters">{{cite web |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/ia/gp/html/partner/partner.shtml |title=NYC's Partner Cities |publisher=The City of New York |access-date=16 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130814165415/http://www.nyc.gov/html/ia/gp/html/partner/partner.shtml |archive-date=14 August 2013}}</ref>
* {{flagdeco|BUL}} [[Place:Plovdiv|Plovdiv]], Bulgaria<ref name="partner cities"/>
* {{flagdeco|KOR}} [[Place:Seoul|Seoul]], South Korea<ref name="Seoul twinnings2">{{cite web |url=http://english.seoul.go.kr/gover/cooper/coo_02sis.html |title=International Cooperation: Sister Cities |access-date=26 January 2008 |work=Seoul Metropolitan Government |publisher=www.seoul.go.kr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071210175055/http://english.seoul.go.kr/gover/cooper/coo_02sis.html |archive-date=10 December 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Seoul twinnings">{{cite web |url=http://english.seoul.go.kr/gtk/cg/cityhall.php?pidx=6 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120325052520/http://english.seoul.go.kr/gtk/cg/cityhall.php?pidx=6 |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 March 2012 |title=Seoul – Sister Cities [via WayBackMachine] |access-date=23 August 2013 |work=Seoul Metropolitan Government (archived 2012-04-25)}}</ref>
* {{flagdeco|AUS}} [[Place:Sydney|Sydney]], Australia<ref name="partner cities"/>
* {{flagdeco|ALB}} [[Place:Tirana|Tirana]], Albania<ref name="International relations">{{cite web |url=http://www.tirana.gov.al/common/images/International%20Relations.pdf |title=Twinning Cities: International Relations |access-date=23 June 2009 |work=Municipality of Tirana |publisher=www.tirana.gov.al |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111010042121/http://www.tirana.gov.al/common/images/International%20Relations.pdf |archive-date=10 October 2011}}</ref><ref>Twinning Cities: International Relations. Municipality of Tirana. www.tirana.gov.al. Retrieved on 25 January 2008.</ref>
* {{flagdeco|IRN}} [[Place:Tehran|Tehran]], Iran<ref name="partner cities"/>
* {{flagdeco|JPN}} [[Place:Tokyo|Tokyo]], Japan<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/ENGLISH/ABOUT/LINKS/sister.htm |title=Sister Cities(States) of Tokyo |access-date=17 June 2019 |work=Tokyo Metropolitan Government |archive-date=11 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611131633/http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/ENGLISH/ABOUT/LINKS/sister.htm |url-status=live}}</ref>
* {{flagdeco|BEL}} Tongeren, Belgium<ref name="partner cities"/>
* {{flagdeco|TUN}} [[Place:Tunis|Tunis]], Tunisia<ref name="Tunis">{{cite web |url=http://www.commune-tunis.gov.tn/fr/mairie_cooperation1.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080508191341/http://www.commune-tunis.gov.tn/fr/mairie_cooperation1.htm |archive-date=8 May 2008 |title=Cooperation Internationale |publisher=2003–2009 City of Tunis Portal |language=fr |access-date=31 July 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* {{flagdeco|US}} [[Place:Washington, D.C.|Washington, D.C.]], United States<ref>{{cite web |title=Visita a Washington del Sindaco |url=http://www.comune.roma.it/wps/portal/pcr?contentId=NEW183956&jp_pagecode=newsview.wp&ahew=contentId:jp_pagecode |access-date=3 October 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111125222237/http://www.comune.roma.it/wps/portal/pcr?contentId=NEW183956&jp_pagecode=newsview.wp&ahew=contentId:jp_pagecode |archive-date=25 November 2011}}</ref>
}}

==Economy==
[[File:Palazzo_Eni_(Rome)_in_2021.05.jpg|thumb|Palazzo Eni, in the EUR business district, is the headquarters of Eni, considered one of the world's oil and gas "supermajors".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/oil-gas-and-mining/spotlight-sharpens/|title=The spotlight sharpens: Eni and corruption in Republic of Congo's oil sector|website=Global Witness}}</ref>]]
[[File:Roma - HQ Enel esterno.jpg|thumb|Enel's headquarters in Rome, the second largest power company in the world by revenue after the State Grid Corporation of China.<ref>{{cite news |title=Top 10 power companies in the world: Ranking the largest |url=https://www.power-technology.com/features/top-10-power-companies-in-the-world/ |newspaper=Power Technology |access-date=7 February 2020 |date=19 March 2019|last1=Vara |first1=Vasanthi }}</ref>]]
[[File:Sede BNL Roma.jpg|thumb|Orizzonte Europa, BNL headquarters in Rome]]

As the capital of Italy, Rome hosts all the principal institutions of the nation, including the Presidency of the Republic, the government (and its single {{lang|it|Ministeri}}), the Parliament, the main judicial Courts, and the diplomatic representatives of all the countries for the states of Italy and Vatican City. Many international institutions are located in Rome, notably cultural and scientific ones, such as the American Institute, the British School, the French Academy, the Scandinavian Institutes, and the German Archaeological Institute. There are also specialised agencies of the United Nations, such as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Rome also hosts major international and worldwide political and cultural organisations, such as the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), [[Organization:World Food Programme|World Food Programme]] (WFP), the NATO Defence College, and the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM).

According to the [[Global city#GaWC study|GaWC study of world cities]], Rome is a "Beta +" city.<ref name="GAWC">{{Cite web |url=https://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/world2018t.html |title=The World According to GaWC 2020 |website=www.lboro.ac.uk |access-date=18 July 2019 |archive-date=3 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170503165246/http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/world2016t.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The city was ranked in 2014 as 32nd in the Global Cities Index, the highest in Italy.<ref name="atkearney.at">{{cite web |url=http://www.atkearney.com/research-studies/global-cities-index/full-report |title=2014 Global Cities Index and Emerging Cities Outlook |access-date=2 August 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140417135221/http://www.atkearney.com/research-studies/global-cities-index/full-report |archive-date=17 April 2014}}</ref> With a 2005 GDP of €94.376&nbsp;billion (US$121.5&nbsp;billion),<ref name="rapporto2006">{{cite web |url=http://www.censis.it/277/372/5732/5766/5783/5784/content.asp |title=Rapporto Censis 2006 |publisher=Censis.it |access-date=3 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080418003612/http://www.censis.it/277/372/5732/5766/5783/5784/content.ASP |archive-date=18 April 2008}}</ref>{{update inline|date=May 2018}} the city produces 6.7% of the national GDP (more than any other single city in Italy), and its unemployment rate, lowered from 11.1% to 6.5% between 2001 and 2005, is now one of the lowest rates of all the European Union capital cities.<ref name="rapporto2006" /> Rome's economy grows at around 4.4% annually and continues to grow at a higher rate in comparison to any other city in the rest of the country.<ref name="rapporto2006" /> This means that were Rome a country, it would be the world's 52nd richest country by GDP, near to the size to that of Egypt. Rome also had a 2003 GDP per capita of €29,153 (US$37,412), which was second in Italy (after Milan), and is more than 134.1% of the EU average GDP per capita.<ref name="observatoribarcelona.org">{{Cite web |url=http://www.observatoribarcelona.org/eng/Indicadors.php?IdentificadorTema=1&Identificador=11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070806145437/http://www.observatoribarcelona.org/eng/Indicadors.php?IdentificadorTema=1&Identificador=11 |url-status=dead |title=Observatoribarcelona.org |archive-date=6 August 2007}}</ref>{{Update inline|date=May 2018}} Rome, on the whole, has the highest total earnings in Italy, reaching €47,076,890,463 in 2008,<ref name="ilsole24ore.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.ilsole24ore.com/speciali/redditi_comuni_08/ |title=La classifica dei redditi nei comuni capoluogo di provincia |publisher=Il Sole 24 ORE |access-date=14 June 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110512174557/http://www.ilsole24ore.com/speciali/redditi_comuni_08/ |archive-date=12 May 2011}}</ref>{{Update inline|date=May 2018}} yet, in terms of average workers' incomes, the city places itself 9th in Italy, with €24,509.<ref name="ilsole24ore.com" /> On a global level, Rome's workers receive the 30th highest wages in 2009, coming three places higher than in 2008, in which the city ranked 33rd.<ref name="citymayors_a">{{cite web |url=http://www.citymayors.com/economics/richest_cities.html |title=World's richest cities in 2009 |publisher=City Mayors |date=22 August 2009 |access-date=14 June 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612160130/http://www.citymayors.com/economics/richest_cities.html |archive-date=12 June 2010}}</ref>{{Update inline|date=May 2018}} The Rome area had a GDP amounting to $167.8 billion, and $38,765 per capita.<ref name="Brookings">{{cite web |url=http://www.brookings.edu/research/interactives/global-metro-monitor-3 |title=Global city GDP 2011 |publisher=Brookings Institution |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605135349/http://www.brookings.edu/research/interactives/global-metro-monitor-3 |archive-date=5 June 2013}}</ref>

Although the economy of Rome is characterised by the absence of heavy industry, and it is largely dominated by services, high-technology companies (IT, aerospace, defence, telecommunications), research, construction and commercial activities (especially banking), and the huge development of tourism are very dynamic and extremely important to its economy. Rome's international airport, Fiumicino, is the largest in Italy, and the city hosts the head offices of the vast majority of the major Italian companies, as well as the headquarters of three of the world's 100 largest companies: Enel, [[Company:Eni|Eni]], and [[Company:Telecom Italia|Telecom Italia]].<ref name="Forbes">{{cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/2006/03/29/06f2k_worlds-largest-public-companies_land.html |title=The World's 2000 Largest Public Companies |first=Scott |last=DeCarlo |date=30 March 2006 |work=Forbes |access-date=16 January 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070113092755/http://www.forbes.com/2006/03/29/06f2k_worlds-largest-public-companies_land.html |archive-date=13 January 2007}}</ref>

Universities, national radio and television and the movie industry in Rome are also important parts of the economy: Rome is also the hub of the Italian film industry, thanks to the Cinecittà studios, working since the 1930s. The city is also a centre for banking and insurance as well as electronics, energy, transport, and aerospace industries. Numerous international companies and agencies headquarters, government ministries, conference centres, sports venues, and museums are located in Rome's principal business districts: the Esposizione Universale Roma (EUR); the ''Torrino'' (further south from the EUR); the ''Magliana''; the ''Parco de' Medici-Laurentina'' and the so-called ''Tiburtina-valley'' along the ancient Via Tiburtina.

===Tourism===
[[File:The_Spanish_Steps,_Rome_(47509253002).jpg|thumb|Fontana della Barcaccia in Piazza di Spagna, the Spanish Steps and Trinità dei Monti]]
[[File:Empty_Piazza_Navona_(85148359).jpeg|thumb|Piazza Navona]]
[[File:Vatican Museums Spiral Staircase 2012.jpg|thumb|right|{{As of|2022}}, the Vatican Museums are the second most visited art museum in the world.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cheshire |first1=Lee |last2=da Silva |first2=José |title=The 100 most popular art museums in the world—who has recovered and who is still struggling? |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/03/27/the-100-most-popular-art-museums-in-the-worldwho-has-recovered-and-who-is-still-struggling |website=The Art Newspaper |access-date=25 November 2023 |date=27 March 2023 |archive-date=28 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328204505/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/03/27/the-100-most-popular-art-museums-in-the-worldwho-has-recovered-and-who-is-still-struggling |url-status=live}}</ref>]]

Rome today is one of the most important tourist destinations of the world, due to the incalculable immensity of its archaeological and artistic treasures, as well as for the charm of its unique traditions, the beauty of its panoramic views, and the majesty of its magnificent "villas" (parks). Among the most significant resources are the many museums – Capitoline Museums, [[Organization:Vatican Museums|the Vatican Museums]] and the Galleria Borghese and others dedicated to modern and contemporary art – aqueducts, [[Chemistry:Fountain|fountain]]s, churches, palaces, historical buildings, the monuments and ruins of the Roman Forum, and the Catacombs. Rome is the third most visited city in the EU, after London and Paris, and receives an average of 7–10&nbsp;million tourists a year, which sometimes doubles on holy years. The Colosseum (4&nbsp;million tourists) and the [[Organization:Vatican Museums|Vatican Museums]] (4.2&nbsp;million tourists) are the 39th and 37th (respectively) most visited places in the world, according to a recent study.<ref name="itvnews.tv">{{cite web |title=The 50 Most Visited Places in The World |website=itvnews.tv |date=2 October 2009 |url=http://www.itvnews.tv/Blog/Blog/the-50-most-visited-places.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002073926/http://www.itvnews.tv/Blog/Blog/the-50-most-visited-places.html | archive-date=2 October 2009 | url-status=dead | access-date=22 August 2019}}</ref>

Rome is a major archaeological hub, and one of the world's main centres of [[Earth:Archaeology|archaeological research]]. There are numerous cultural and research institutes located in the city, such as the American Academy in Rome,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.romanculture.org/index.php?page=airc-hc-rome-program-in-archaeology-and-classical-studies |title=AIRC-HC Program in Archaeology, Classics, and Mediterranean Culture |publisher=Romanculture.org |access-date=3 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100329144605/http://www.romanculture.org/index.php?page=airc-hc-rome-program-in-archaeology-and-classical-studies |archive-date=29 March 2010}}</ref> and The Swedish Institute at Rome.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.isvroma.it/public/EN/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=%20 |title=Isvroma.it |publisher=Isvroma.it |access-date=3 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080418182423/http://www.isvroma.it/public/EN/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=%20 |archive-date=18 April 2008}}</ref> Rome contains numerous ancient sites, including the Forum Romanum, Trajan's Market, Trajan's Forum,<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Trajan's Glorious Forum |magazine=Archaeology |volume=51 |issue=1 |date=January–February 1998 |author=James E. Packer |publisher=Archaeological Institute of America |url=http://www.archaeology.org/9801/abstracts/trajan.html |access-date=2 October 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100216035602/http://www.archaeology.org/9801/abstracts/trajan.html |archive-date=16 February 2010}}</ref> the [[Biology:Colosseum|Colosseum]], and the Pantheon, to name but a few. The [[Biology:Colosseum|Colosseum]], arguably one of Rome's most iconic archaeological sites, is regarded as a [[History:Wonders of the World|wonder of the world]].<ref name=brewers>I H Evans (reviser), ''Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable'' (Centenary edition Fourth impression (corrected); London: Cassell, 1975), p. 1163</ref><ref name=miller>{{cite book |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/1538646.html |title=America, the Land We Love |last1=Miller |first1=Francis Trevelyan |last2=Wilson |first2=Woodrow |last3=Taft |first3=William Howard Taft |last4=Roosevelt |first4=Theodore |publisher=W. T. Blaine |year=1915 |page=201 |oclc=679498513 |author-link2=Woodrow Wilson |author-link3=William Howard Taft |author-link4=Theodore Roosevelt |access-date=22 August 2019 |archive-date=28 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728111825/https://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/1538646.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

Rome contains a vast collection of art, sculpture, [[Chemistry:Fountain|fountain]]s, [[Engineering:Mosaic|mosaic]]s, frescos, and paintings, from all different periods. Rome first became a major artistic centre during ancient Rome, with forms of important Roman art such as architecture, painting, sculpture and [[Engineering:Mosaic|mosaic]] work. [[Chemistry:Metalworking|Metal-work]], coin die and gem engraving, ivory carvings, figurine glass, pottery, and book illustrations are considered to be 'minor' forms of Roman artwork.<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1017/S0009840X00221331 |last=Toynbee |first=J.M.C. |date=December 1971 |title=Roman Art |journal=The Classical Review |volume=21 |issue=3 |pages=439–442 |issn=0009-840X |jstor=708631|s2cid=163488573 }}</ref> Rome later became a major centre of [[Philosophy:Renaissance|Renaissance]] art, since the popes spent vast sums of money for the constructions of grandiose [[Religion:Basilica|basilica]]s, palaces, piazzas and public buildings in general. Rome became one of Europe's major centres of Renaissance artwork, second only to [[Place:Florence|Florence]], and able to compare to other major cities and cultural centres, such as Paris and Venice. The city was affected greatly by the baroque, and Rome became the home of numerous artists and architects, such as Bernini, Caravaggio, Carracci, Borromini and Cortona.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/rome/curriculum/rome211.html |title=Baroque Art of Rome (ROME 211) |publisher=Trincoll.edu |access-date=3 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080530094548/http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/rome/curriculum/rome211.html |archive-date=30 May 2008}}</ref> In the late 18th century and early 19th century, the city was one of the centres of the Grand Tour,<ref>{{cite web |title=Grand Tour of Europe: The Travels of 17th & 18th Century Twenty-Somethings |author=Matt Rosenberg |publisher=About.com |url=http://geography.about.com/od/historyofgeography/a/grandtour.htm |access-date=3 February 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101205235817/http://geography.about.com/od/historyofgeography/a/grandtour.htm |archive-date=5 December 2010}}</ref> when wealthy, young English and other European aristocrats visited the city to learn about ancient Roman culture, art, philosophy, and architecture. Rome hosted a great number of neoclassical and rococo artists, such as Pannini and Bernardo Bellotto. Today, the city is a major artistic centre, with numerous art institutes<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/rome/curriculum/rome350.html |title=The Franca Camiz Memorial Field Seminar in Art History |publisher=Trinity College, Hartford Connecticlt |access-date=3 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080530094628/http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/rome/curriculum/rome350.html |archive-date=30 May 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and museums.

Rome has a growing stock of contemporary and modern art and architecture. The National Gallery of Modern Art has works by Balla, Morandi, Pirandello, Carrà, De Chirico, De Pisis, Guttuso, Fontana, Burri, Mastroianni, Turcato, Kandisky, and Cézanne on permanent exhibition. 2010 saw the opening of Rome's newest arts foundation, a contemporary art and architecture gallery designed by acclaimed Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid. Known as MAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts it restores a dilapidated area with striking modern architecture. Maxxi<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.maxxi.beniculturali.it/english/ |title=Maxxi_Museo Nazionale Delle Arti Del Xxi Secolo |publisher=Maxxi.beniculturali.it |access-date=25 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100211132529/http://www.maxxi.beniculturali.it/english/ |archive-date=11 February 2010}}</ref> features a campus dedicated to culture, experimental research laboratories, international exchange and study and research. It is one of Rome's most ambitious modern architecture projects alongside Renzo Piano's Auditorium Parco della Musica<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.auditorium.com/ |title=Auditorium Parco della Musica |publisher=Auditorium.com |access-date=25 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100323151419/http://www.auditorium.com/ |archive-date=23 March 2010}}</ref> and Massimiliano Fuksas' Rome Convention Center, Centro Congressi Italia EUR, in the EUR district, due to open in 2016.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pelati |first1=Manuela |title=Eur spa, Diacetti: «La nuvola di Fuksas sarà completata entro il 2016 |url=http://roma.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/15_settembre_30/eur-spa-diacetti-la-nuvola-fuksas-sara-completata-entro-2016-c4b647de-678d-11e5-9bc4-2d55534839fc.shtml |access-date=5 December 2015 |work={{Lang|it|Corriere della Sera}} |date=30 September 2015 |language=it |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208165359/http://roma.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/15_settembre_30/eur-spa-diacetti-la-nuvola-fuksas-sara-completata-entro-2016-c4b647de-678d-11e5-9bc4-2d55534839fc.shtml |archive-date=8 December 2015}}</ref> The convention centre features a huge translucent container inside which is suspended a steel and teflon structure resembling a cloud and which contains meeting rooms and an auditorium with two piazzas open to the neighbourhood on either side.

==Education==
[[File:Sapienza entrance (20040201351).jpg|thumb|right|The [[Organization:Sapienza University of Rome|Sapienza University of Rome]], founded in 1303]]

Rome is a nationwide and major international centre for higher education, containing numerous academies, colleges and universities. It boasts a large variety of academies and colleges, and has always been a major worldwide intellectual and educational centre, especially during [[History:Ancient Rome|Ancient Rome]] and the [[Philosophy:Renaissance|Renaissance]], along with Florence.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01083b.htm |encyclopedia=Catholic Encyclopedia |title=Roman Academies |publisher=Newadvent.org |date=1 March 1907 |access-date=3 February 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100112132437/http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01083b.htm |archive-date=12 January 2010}}</ref> According to the City Brands Index, Rome is considered the world's second most historically, educationally and culturally interesting and beautiful city.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gfkamerica.com/practice_areas/roper_pam/nbi_index/index.en.html/downloads/cbi2006-q4-free.pdf |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20081217002737/http://www.gfkamerica.com/practice_areas/roper_pam/nbi_index/index.en.html/downloads/cbi2006-q4-free.pdf |url-status=usurped |archive-date=17 December 2008 |title=Anholt-GfK Roper Nation Brands Index |website=wayback.archive-it.org |date=18 December 2017}}</ref>

Rome has many universities and colleges. Its first university, [[Organization:Sapienza University of Rome|La Sapienza]] (founded in 1303), is one of the largest in the world, with more than 140,000 students attending; in 2005 it ranked as Europe's 33rd best university<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.arwu.org/rank/2005/ARWU2005_TopEuro.htm |title=Top 100 European Universities |date=2005 |website=Academic Ranking of World Universities |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090129082351/http://www.arwu.org/rank/2005/ARWU2005_TopEuro.htm |archive-date=29 January 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and in 2013 the Sapienza University of Rome ranked as the 62nd in the world and the top in Italy in its ''World University Rankings''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cwur.org/2013.php |title=Top 100 Universities |date=2013 |website=Center for World University Rankings |access-date=22 August 2019 |archive-date=13 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191213080424/https://cwur.org/2013.php |url-status=live}}</ref> and has been ranked among Europe's 50 and the world's 150 best colleges.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arwu.org/rank2008/ARWU2008_TopEuro%28EN%29.htm |title=Top 100 European Universities |date=2008 |website=Academic Ranking of World Universities |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090521224840/http://www.arwu.org/rank2008/ARWU2008_TopEuro%28EN%29.htm |archive-date=21 May 2009 |url-status=dead |access-date=22 August 2019}}</ref> In order to decrease the overcrowding of La Sapienza, two new public universities were founded during the last decades: [[Organization:University of Rome Tor Vergata|Tor Vergata]] in 1982, and [[Organization:Roma Tre University|Roma Tre]] in 1992. Rome hosts also the LUISS School of Government,<ref>{{cite web |title=LUISS School of Government |website=sog.luiss.it |url=http://www.sog.luiss.it/ |language=it |access-date=22 August 2019 |archive-date=10 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190710155033/https://sog.luiss.it/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Italy's most important graduate university in the areas of international affairs and European studies as well as [[Organization:LUISS Business School|LUISS Business School]], Italy's most important business school. Rome ISIA was founded in 1973 by Giulio Carlo Argan and is Italy's oldest institution in the field of [[Social:Industrial design|industrial design]].
[[File:Biblioteca Casanatense.jpg|thumb|Biblioteca Casanatense]]

Rome contains many pontifical universities and other institutes, including the British School at Rome, the French School in Rome, the Pontifical Gregorian University (the oldest Jesuit university in the world, founded in 1551), Istituto Europeo di Design, the Scuola Lorenzo de' Medici, the Link Campus of Malta, and the [[Organization:Università Campus Bio-Medico|Università Campus Bio-Medico]]. Rome is also the location of two American Universities; The American University of Rome<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aur.edu/american-university-rome/ |title=The American University of Rome |publisher=The American University of Rome |access-date=4 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128230359/http://www.aur.edu/american-university-rome/ |archive-date=28 January 2013}}</ref> and [[Organization:John Cabot University|John Cabot University]] as well as St. John's University branch campus, [[Organization:John Felice Rome Center|John Felice Rome Center]], a campus of Loyola University Chicago and Temple University Rome, a campus of Temple University.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.temple.edu/studyabroad/programs/semester_year/italy/index.html |title=Temple Rome Study Abroad |publisher=Temple University |access-date=4 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201112645/http://www.temple.edu/studyabroad/programs/semester_year/italy/index.html |archive-date=1 February 2013}}</ref> The Roman Colleges are several seminaries for students from foreign countries studying for the priesthood at the Pontifical Universities.<ref name="NAC">{{cite web |url=http://www.pnac.org/about-us/about-the-nac/ |title=About the NAC |publisher=Pontifical North American College |access-date=1 October 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100825005857/http://www.pnac.org/about-us/about-the-nac/ |archive-date=25 August 2010}}</ref> Examples include the Venerable English College, the Pontifical North American College, the Scots College, and the Pontifical Croatian College of St. Jerome.
Rome's major libraries include: the {{Lang|it|Biblioteca Angelica|italic=no}}, opened in 1604, making it Italy's first public library; the Biblioteca Vallicelliana, established in 1565; the Biblioteca Casanatense, opened in 1701; the National Central Library, one of the two national libraries in Italy, which contains 4,126,002 volumes; The Biblioteca del Ministero degli Affari Esteri, specialised in diplomacy, foreign affairs and modern history; the Biblioteca dell'Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana; the Biblioteca Don Bosco, one of the largest and most modern of all Salesian libraries; the Biblioteca e Museo teatrale del Burcardo, a museum-library specialised in history of drama and theatre; the Biblioteca della [[Organization:Società Geografica Italiana|Società Geografica Italiana]], which is based in the Villa Celimontana and is the most important geographical library in Italy, and one of Europe's most important;<ref>Amedeo Benedetti, ''La Biblioteca della Società Geografica Italiana'', "Biblioteche oggi", n. 3, aprile 2009, p. 41.</ref> and the Vatican Library, one of the oldest and most important libraries in the world, which was formally established in 1475, though in fact much older and has 75,000 codices, as well as 1.1 million printed books, which include some 8,500 incunabula. There are also many specialist libraries attached to various foreign cultural institutes in Rome, among them that of the American Academy in Rome, the French Academy in Rome and the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute of Art History, a German library, often noted for excellence in the arts and sciences.<ref>{{cite web |author=Max Planck Gesellschaft e.V |url=http://www.mpg.de/english/aboutTheSociety/aboutUs/scientificAwards/awardsOfMPS/hannoIlseHahnPrize/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080613192334/http://www.mpg.de/english/aboutTheSociety/aboutUs/scientificAwards/awardsOfMPS/hannoIlseHahnPrize/index.html |archive-date=13 June 2008 |title=Max Planck Society – Hanno and Ilse Hahn Prize |publisher=Mpg.de |date=17 May 2006 |access-date=25 January 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Culture==

===Architecture===
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[[File:Palazzo della civiltà del lavoro (EUR, Rome) (5904657870).jpg|thumb|The Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana in EUR district]]

====Fountains and aqueducts====
[[File:Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy 2 - May 2007.jpg|thumb|Construction of the Trevi Fountain began during the time of Ancient Rome and was completed in 1762 by a design of Nicola Salvi.]]

Rome is a city known for its numerous fountains, built-in all different styles, from Classical and Medieval, to Baroque and Neoclassical. The city has had [[Chemistry:Fountain|fountain]]s for more than two thousand years, and they have provided drinking water and decorated the piazzas of Rome. During the Roman Empire, in 98 AD, according to Sextus Julius Frontinus, the Roman consul who was named ''curator aquarum'' or guardian of the water of the city, Rome had nine aqueducts which fed 39 monumental fountains and 591 public basins, not counting the water supplied to the Imperial household, baths, and owners of private villas. Each of the major fountains was connected to two different aqueducts, in case one was shut down for service.<ref>Frontin, Les Aqueducs de la ville de Rome, translation and commentary by Pierre Grimal, Société d'édition Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1944.</ref>

During the 17th and 18th century, the Roman popes reconstructed other degraded Roman aqueducts and built new display fountains to mark their termini, launching the golden age of the Roman fountain. The fountains of Rome, like the paintings of Rubens, were expressions of the new style of Baroque art. In these fountains, sculpture became the principal element, and the water was used simply to animate and decorate the sculptures. They, like baroque gardens, were "a visual representation of confidence and power".<ref>''Italian Gardens, a Cultural History'', Helen Attlee. Francis Lincoln Limited, London 2006.</ref>

====Statues====
[[File:Vierströmebrunnen-Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (27903447766).jpg|thumb|right|Fontana dei Fiumi by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1648]]

Rome is well known for its statues but, in particular, the talking statues of Rome. These are usually ancient statues which have become popular soapboxes for political and social discussion, and places for people to (often satirically) voice their opinions. There are two main talking statues: the Pasquino and the Marforio, yet there are four other noted ones: il Babuino, Madama Lucrezia, il Facchino and Abbot Luigi. Most of these statues are ancient Roman or classical, and most of them also depict mythical gods, ancient people or legendary figures; il Pasquino represents Menelaus, Abbot Luigi is an unknown Roman magistrate, il Babuino is supposed to be [[Unsolved:Silenus|Silenus]], Marforio represents [[Religion:Oceanus|Oceanus]], Madama Lucrezia is a bust of [[Biology:Isis|Isis]], and il Facchino is the only non-Roman statue, created in 1580, and not representing anyone in particular. They are often, due to their status, covered with placards or graffiti expressing political ideas and points of view. Other statues in the city, which are not related to the talking statues, include those of the Ponte Sant'Angelo, or several monuments scattered across the city, such as that to [[Biography:Giordano Bruno|Giordano Bruno]] in the Campo de'Fiori.

====Obelisks and columns====
[[File:Piazza del Popolo Obelisco Flaminio a Roma.jpg|thumb|Flaminio Obelisk, Piazza del Popolo]]

The city hosts eight ancient Egyptian and five [[History:Ancient Rome|ancient Roman]] [[Engineering:Obelisk|obelisk]]s, together with a number of more modern obelisks; there was also formerly (until 2005) an ancient Ethiopian obelisk in Rome.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.initaly.com/regions/classic/obelisks.htm |title=Chasing Obelisks in Rome |publisher=Initaly.com |access-date=3 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100206125357/http://initaly.com/regions/classic/obelisks.htm |archive-date=6 February 2010}}</ref> The city contains some of obelisks in piazzas, such as in Piazza Navona, St Peter's Square, Piazza Montecitorio, and Piazza del Popolo, and others in villas, thermae parks and gardens, such as in Villa Celimontana, the Baths of Diocletian, and the Pincian Hill. Moreover, the centre of Rome hosts also Trajan's and Antonine Column, two ancient Roman columns with spiral relief. The Column of Marcus Aurelius is located in Piazza Colonna and it was built around 180 AD by Commodus in memory of his parents. The Column of Marcus Aurelius was inspired by Trajan's Column at Trajan's Forum, which is part of the Imperial Fora.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roundtheworldmagazine.com/free-things-to-do-in-rome/ |title=7 Free Things To Do In Rome |publisher=roundtheworldmagazin.com |access-date=17 January 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217200236/http://www.roundtheworldmagazine.com/free-things-to-do-in-rome/ |archive-date=17 February 2017 |date=12 January 2017}}</ref>

====Bridges====
[[File:Bridge Vittorio Emanuele II at sunset.jpg|thumb|Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II at sunset]]

The city of Rome contains numerous famous bridges which cross the Tiber. The only bridge to remain unaltered until today from the classical age is Ponte dei Quattro Capi, which connects the Isola Tiberina with the left bank. The other surviving – albeit modified – ancient Roman bridges crossing the Tiber are Ponte Cestio, Ponte Sant'Angelo and Ponte Milvio. Considering Ponte Nomentano, also built during ancient Rome, which crosses the Aniene, currently there are five ancient Roman bridges still remaining in the city.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.citrag.it/archi/page/bridges/e_f_pn_ro.htm |title=The Bridges of Ancient Rome |publisher=Citrag.it |access-date=3 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100113044759/http://www.citrag.it/archi/page/bridges/e_f_pn_ro.htm |archive-date=13 January 2010}}</ref> Other noteworthy bridges are Ponte Sisto, the first bridge built in the Renaissance above Roman foundations; Ponte Rotto, actually the only remaining arch of the ancient ''Pons Aemilius'', collapsed during the flood of 1598 and demolished at the end of the 19th century; and Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II, a modern bridge connecting Corso Vittorio Emanuele and Borgo. Most of the city's public bridges were built in Classical or Renaissance style, but also in Baroque, Neoclassical and Modern styles. According to the [[Encyclopædia Britannica]], the finest ancient bridge remaining in Rome is the Ponte Sant'Angelo, which was completed in 135 AD, and was decorated with ten statues of the angels, designed by Bernini in 1688.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/523159/SantAngelo-Bridge |title=Sant'Angelo Bridge |access-date=3 February 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100109154613/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/523159/SantAngelo-Bridge |archive-date=9 January 2010}}</ref>

====Catacombs====
[[File:PiusXItomb2.jpg|thumb|right|The Vatican Caves are the location of many papal burials.]]

Rome has an extensive amount of ancient catacombs, or underground burial places under or near the city, of which there are at least forty, some discovered only in recent decades. Though most famous for Christian burials, they include [[Religion:Religion in ancient Rome|pagan]] and Jewish burials, either in separate catacombs or mixed together. The first large-scale catacombs were excavated from the 2nd century onwards. Originally they were carved through [[Earth:Tuff|tuff]], a soft [[Earth:Volcanic rock|volcanic rock]], outside the boundaries of the city, because Roman law forbade burial places within city limits. Currently, maintenance of the catacombs is in the hands of the [[Religion:Pope|Papacy]] which has invested in the Salesians of Don Bosco the supervision of the Catacombs of St. Callixtus on the outskirts of Rome.

===Entertainment and performing arts===
[[File:Teatro dell'Opera a Roma.JPG|thumb|right|The Teatro dell'Opera di Roma at the Piazza Beniamino Gigli]]

Rome is an important centre for music, and it has an intense musical scene, including several prestigious music conservatories and theatres. It hosts the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (founded in 1585), for which new concert halls have been built in the new Parco della Musica, one of the largest musical venues in the world. Rome also has an opera house, the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, as well as several minor musical institutions. The city also played host to the Eurovision Song Contest in 1991 and the MTV Europe Music Awards in 2004.

Rome has also had a major impact on music history. The Roman School was a group of composers of predominantly church music, which were active in the city during the 16th and 17th centuries, therefore spanning the late Renaissance and early [[History:Baroque music|Baroque]] eras. The term also refers to the music they produced. Many of the composers had a direct connection to the [[Organization:Holy See|Vatican]] and the papal chapel, though they worked at several churches; stylistically they are often contrasted with the Venetian School of composers, a concurrent movement which was much more progressive. By far the most famous composer of the Roman School is Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, whose name has been associated for four hundred years with smooth, clear, polyphonic perfection. However, there were other composers working in Rome, and in a variety of styles and forms.

Between 1960 and 1970 Rome was considered to be as a "new Hollywood" because of the many actors and directors who worked there; Via Vittorio Veneto had transformed into a glamour place where you could meet famous people.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=LA NEW HOLLYWOOD: IL CONTESTO POLITICO-SOCIALE |url=http://www.unife.it/letterefilosofia/comunicazione/insegnamenti/storia_cinema/materiale_didattico/a-a-2016-2017/la-new-hollywood-il-contesto-politico-sociale-i-temi-lo-stile |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125210955/http://www.unife.it/letterefilosofia/comunicazione/insegnamenti/storia_cinema/materiale_didattico/a-a-2016-2017/la-new-hollywood-il-contesto-politico-sociale-i-temi-lo-stile |archive-date=25 January 2021 |access-date=2021-01-31 |website=Unife.it |publisher=Università degli Studi di Ferrara |language=it}}</ref>

===Fashion===
[[File:Fontana.della.barcaccia.arp.jpg|thumb|Via Condotti]]

Rome is also widely recognised as a world fashion capital. Although not as important as Milan, Rome is the fourth most important centre for fashion in the world, according to the 2009 Global Language Monitor after Milan, {{wipe|New York City}}, and [[Place:Paris|Paris]], and beating [[Place:London|London]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.languagemonitor.com/popular-culture/fashion |title=The Global Language Monitor » Fashion |publisher=Languagemonitor.com |date=20 July 2009 |access-date=17 October 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091101191133/http://www.languagemonitor.com/popular-culture/fashion |archive-date=1 November 2009}}</ref>

Major luxury fashion houses and jewellery chains, such as Valentino, [[Company:Bulgari|Bulgari]], [[Company:Fendi|Fendi]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fendi.com/ |title=Fendi |publisher=fendi.com |access-date=17 October 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100131001741/http://www.fendi.com/ |archive-date=31 January 2010}}</ref> Laura Biagiotti, Brioni, and Renato Balestra, are headquartered or were founded in the city. Also, other major labels, such as Gucci, [[Company:Chanel|Chanel]], Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, Armani, and Versace have luxury boutiques in Rome, primarily along its prestigious and upscale Via dei Condotti.

===Cuisine===
[[File:Spaghetti alla Carbonara.jpg|thumb|''Spaghetti alla carbonara'', a typical Roman dish]]

Rome's cuisine has evolved through centuries and periods of social, cultural, and political changes. Rome became a major gastronomical centre during the [[History:Ancient Rome|ancient age]]. Ancient Roman cuisine was highly influenced by Ancient Greek culture, and after, the empire's enormous expansion exposed Romans to many new, provincial culinary habits and cooking techniques.<ref>{{Cite news |agency=Associated Press |date=2021-09-28 |title=Packs Of Ravenous Wild Boars Are Ransacking Rome |language=en |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/09/28/1041124299/wild-boars-rome-streets-food |access-date=2022-04-11}}</ref>

Later, during the [[Philosophy:Renaissance|Renaissance]], Rome became well known as a centre of high-cuisine, since some of the best chefs of the time worked for the popes. An example of this was Bartolomeo Scappi, who was a chef working for Pius IV; he acquired fame in 1570 when his cookbook ''Opera dell'arte del cucinare'' was published. In the book he lists approximately 1,000 recipes of the Renaissance cuisine and describes cooking techniques and tools, giving the first known picture of a [[Engineering:Fork|fork]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Rolland |first=Jacques |title=The food encyclopedia |publisher=Robert Rose |location=Toronto |year=2006 |isbn=0-7788-0150-0 |oclc=70176309 |page=273}}</ref>
[[File:Concia di zucchine.jpg|thumb|''Concia di zucchine'', an example of Roman-Jewish cuisine]]
The Testaccio, Rome's trade and slaughterhouse area, was often known as the "belly" or "slaughterhouse" of Rome, and was inhabited by butchers, or ''vaccinari''.<ref name="Eyewitness Travel 2006 pg. 312 - 313">Eyewitness Travel (2006), pg. 312 – 313</ref> The most common or ancient Roman cuisine included the "fifth quarter".<ref name="Eyewitness Travel 2006 pg. 312 - 313"/> The old-fashioned ''coda alla vaccinara'' (oxtail cooked in the way of butchers)<ref name="Eyewitness Travel 2006 pg. 312 - 313"/> is still one of the city's most popular meals and is part of most of Rome's restaurants' menus. Lamb is also a very popular part of Roman cuisine, and is often roasted with spices and herbs.<ref name="Eyewitness Travel 2006 pg. 312 - 313"/>

In the modern age, the city developed its own peculiar cuisine, based on products of the nearby Campagna, as lamb and vegetables ([[Biology:Artichoke|globe artichokes]] are common).<ref>{{cite book |title=Culinaria Italy |first=Claudia |last=Piras |publisher=Culinaria Konemann |year=2000 |isbn=3-8290-2901-2 |oclc=881159457 |page=291}}</ref> In parallel, Roman Jews – present in the city since the 1st century BC – developed their own cuisine, the ''cucina giudaico-romanesca''.

Examples of Roman dishes include ''saltimbocca alla romana'' – a veal cutlet, Roman-style, topped with raw ham and sage and simmered with white wine and butter; ''carciofi alla romana'' – artichokes Roman-style, outer leaves removed, stuffed with mint, garlic, breadcrumbs and braised; ''carciofi alla giudia'' – artichokes fried in olive oil, typical of Roman Jewish cooking, outer leaves removed, stuffed with mint, garlic, breadcrumbs and braised; ''spaghetti alla carbonara'' – spaghetti with bacon, eggs and ''pecorino''; and ''gnocchi di semolino alla romana'' – [[Biology:Semolina|semolina]] dumpling, Roman-style.<ref>{{cite book |last=Carnacina |author2=Buonassisi, Vincenzo |first=Luigi |title=Roma in Cucina |publisher=Giunti Martello |location=Milano |year=1975 |language=it}}</ref>

===Cinema===
[[File:Ingressostorico cinecitta.jpg|thumb|Entrance to the Cinecittà studios, the largest film studio in Europe<ref name="cinecittà">{{cite web|url=https://www.ciakmagazine.it/news/cinecitta-ce-laccordo-per-espandere-gli-studios-italiani/|title=Cinecittà, c'è l'accordo per espandere gli Studios italiani|date=30 December 2021 |access-date=10 September 2022|language=it}}</ref>]]

Rome hosts the Cinecittà Studios,<ref name="romefile1">{{cite web |url=http://www.romefile.com/culture/cinecitta.php |title=History of Cinecittà Studios in Rome |publisher=Romefile |access-date=17 October 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090501020709/http://www.romefile.com/culture/cinecitta.php |archive-date=1 May 2009}}</ref> the largest film and television production facility in continental Europe and the centre of the Italian cinema, where many of today's biggest box office hits are filmed. The {{cvt|99|acre|ha|adj=on}} studio complex is {{cvt|9.0|km|mi}} from the centre of Rome and is part of one of the biggest production communities in the world, second only to Hollywood, with well over 5,000 professionals – from period costume makers to visual effects specialists. More than 3,000 productions have been made on its lot.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

Founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini, the studios were bombed by the Western Allies during the Second World War. In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions, and subsequently became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini. Today, Cinecittà is the only studio in the world with pre-production, production, and full post-production facilities on one lot, allowing directors and producers to walk in with their script and "walkout" with a completed film.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

===Sports===
[[File:L'Olimpico - panoramio.jpg|thumb|Stadio Olimpico, home of AS Roma and SS Lazio, is one of the largest sports stadiums in Europe, with a capacity of over 70,000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.maspostatevilaregina.com/2009/05/05/brief-guide-to-olympic-stadium-of-rome/ |title=Brief Guide to Olympic Stadium of Rome &#124; Spostare le Finale da Roma? No! Grazie |publisher=Maspostatevilaregina.com |date=23 April 2009 |access-date=30 January 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110512172341/http://www.maspostatevilaregina.com/2009/05/05/brief-guide-to-olympic-stadium-of-rome/ |archive-date=12 May 2011}}</ref>]]

Association football is the most popular sport in Rome, as in the rest of the country.
The city hosted the final games of the 1934 and 1990 FIFA World Cup.
The latter took place in the Stadio Olimpico, which is also the shared home stadium for local Serie A clubs SS Lazio, founded in 1900, and AS Roma, founded in 1927, whose rivalry in the Derby della Capitale has become a staple of Roman sports culture.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/football/10/22/first11.derbies/index.html |title=Football First 11: Do or die derbies |publisher=CNN |date=22 October 2008 |access-date=5 October 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017011443/http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/football/10/22/first11.derbies/index.html |archive-date=17 October 2014}}</ref>
Footballers who play for these teams and are also born in the city tend to become especially popular, as has been the case with players such as Francesco Totti and Daniele De Rossi (both for AS Roma), and Alessandro Nesta (for SS Lazio).

[[File:Stadio_dei_Marmi.jpg|right|thumb|Stadio dei Marmi]]

Rome hosted the 1960 Summer Olympics, with great success, using many ancient sites such as the Villa Borghese and the Thermae of Caracalla as venues. For the Olympic Games many new facilities were built, notably the new large Olympic Stadium (which was then enlarged and renewed to host several matches and the final of the 1990 FIFA World Cup), the Stadio Flaminio, the Villaggio Olimpico (Olympic Village, created to host the athletes and redeveloped after the games as a residential district), ecc. Rome made a bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics but it was withdrawn.<ref name="olympic.org">{{cite web |url=http://www.olympic.org/media?articleid=138217 |title=Media |publisher=Olympic.org |access-date=15 September 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111019052200/http://www.olympic.org/media?articleid=138217 |archive-date=19 October 2011}}</ref><ref name="Bladesplace.id.au">{{cite web |url=http://www.bladesplace.id.au/olympic-games-candidates.html |title=Candidate Cities for Future Olympic Games |publisher=Bladesplace.id.au |access-date=17 October 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091012174517/http://www.bladesplace.id.au/olympic-games-candidates.html |archive-date=12 October 2009}}</ref>

Further, Rome hosted the EuroBasket 1991 and is home to the internationally recognised basketball team Virtus Roma. Rugby union is gaining wider acceptance. Until 2011 the Stadio Flaminio was the home stadium for the Italy national rugby union team, which has been playing in the Six Nations Championship since 2000. The team now plays home games at the Stadio Olimpico because the Stadio Flaminio needs works of renovation in order to improve both its capacity and safety. Rome is home to local rugby union teams such as Rugby Roma (winner of five Italian championships), Unione Rugby Capitolina and S.S. Lazio Rugby 1927 (rugby union branch of the multisport club S.S. Lazio).

Every May, Rome hosts the ATP Masters Series tennis tournament on the clay courts of the Foro Italico. Cycling was popular in the post-World War II period, although its popularity has faded. Rome has hosted the final portion of the Giro d'Italia three times, in 1911, 1950, and 2009. Other local sports teams include volleyball (M. Roma Volley), handball or waterpolo.

==Transport==
[[File:Rom Fiumicino 2011-by-RaBoe-02.jpg|thumb|right|Rome–Fiumicino Airport was the tenth busiest airport in Europe in 2016.]]
[[File:Giorcescivitavecchia3.JPG|thumb|right|Port of Civitavecchia]]

Rome is at the centre of the radial network of roads that roughly follow the lines of the ancient Roman roads which began at the Capitoline Hill and connected Rome with its empire. Today Rome is circled, at a distance of about {{cvt|10|km|mi|0}} from the Capitol, by the ring-road (the Grande Raccordo Anulare or GRA).

Due to its location in the centre of the Italian peninsula, Rome is the principal [[Engineering:Railway node|railway node]] for central Italy. Rome's main railway station, Termini, is one of the largest railway stations in Europe and the most heavily used in Italy, with around 400 thousand travellers passing through every day. The second-largest station in the city, Roma Tiburtina, has been redeveloped as a high-speed rail terminus.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://eurostar-av.trenitalia.com/it/progetto/stazioni_rinnovate/roma_tiburtina.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061203063001/http://eurostar-av.trenitalia.com/it/progetto/stazioni_rinnovate/roma_tiburtina.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 December 2006 |title=Eurostar Italia Alta Velocità |date=3 December 2006}}</ref> As well as frequent high-speed day trains to all major Italian cities, Rome is linked nightly by 'boat train' sleeper services to Sicily, and internationally by overnight sleeper services to Munich and Vienna.

Rome is served by three airports. The intercontinental Leonardo da Vinci International Airport, Italy's chief airport is located in the nearby Fiumicino, south-west of Rome. The older Rome Ciampino Airport is a joint civilian and military airport. It is commonly referred to as "Ciampino Airport", as it is located beside Ciampino, south-east of Rome. A third airport, the Rome Urbe Airport, is a small, low-traffic airport located about {{cvt|6|km|0}} north of the city centre, which handles most helicopter and private flights. The main airport system of the city (composed of Fiumicino and Ciampino), with 32.8 million passengers transported in 2022, is the second busiest airport system in Italy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Statistiche Dati di Traffico Aeroportuale Italiano |url=https://assaeroporti.com/statistiche/ |access-date=2023-02-21 |website=Assaeroporti |language=it-IT}}</ref>

Although the city has its own quarter on the Mediterranean Sea (Lido di Ostia), this has only a marina and a small channel-harbour for fishing boats. The main harbour which serves Rome is Port of Civitavecchia, located about {{cvt|62|km|abbr=off}} northwest of the city.<ref>{{cite web |title=Porti di Roma |url=http://www.port-of-rome.org/ |access-date=6 March 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150307140526/http://www.port-of-rome.org/ |archive-date=7 March 2015}}</ref>

The city suffers from traffic problems largely due to this radial street pattern, making it difficult for Romans to move easily from the vicinity of one of the radial roads to another without going into the historic centre or using the ring-road. These problems are not helped by the limited size of Rome's metro system when compared to other cities of similar size. Rome has only 21 taxis for every 10,000 inhabitants, far below other major European cities.<ref>{{cite news |title=Central Rome Streets Blocked by Taxi Drivers |work={{wipe|The New York Times}} |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/30/world/europe/30rome.html?scp=93&sq=Rome&st=nyt |date=30 November 2007 |access-date=10 February 2008 |first=Peter |last=Kiefer |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090417112759/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/30/world/europe/30rome.html?scp=93&sq=Rome&st=nyt |archive-date=17 April 2009}}</ref>{{Better citation needed|28=January 2024|reason=data is out of date|date=January 2024}} Chronic congestion caused by cars during the 1970s and 1980s led to restrictions being placed on vehicle access to the inner city-centre during daylight hours. Areas, where these restrictions apply, are known as Limited Traffic Zones (''Zona a Traffico Limitato'' (ZTL)). More recently, heavy night-time traffic in Trastevere, Testaccio and San Lorenzo has led to the creation of night-time ZTLs in those districts.

[[File:Roma Metropolitana e Ferrovia 2012.png|thumb|Roma Metrorail and Underground map, 2016]]
[[File:Inaugurazione metro B1.jpg|thumb|Conca d'Oro metro station]]
A three-line metro system called the ''Metropolitana'' operates in Rome. Construction on the first branch started in the 1930s.<ref>{{cite book |last=Dyson |first=Stephen L. |title=Archaeology, Ideology and Urbanism in Rome from the Grand Tour to Berlusconi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ECCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA192 |year=2019 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-87459-5 |page=192 |access-date=22 August 2019 |archive-date=23 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523031404/https://books.google.com/books?id=-ECCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA192 |url-status=live}}</ref> The line had been planned to quickly connect the main railway station with the newly planned E42 area in the southern suburbs, where 1942 the World Fair was supposed to be held. The event never took place because of war, but the area was later partly redesigned and renamed Esposizione Universale Roma in the 1950s to serve as a modern business district. The line was finally opened in 1955, and it is now the south part of the B Line.

The A line opened in 1980 from Ottaviano to Anagnina stations, later extended in stages (1999–2000) to Battistini. In the 1990s, an extension of the B line was opened from Termini to Rebibbia. The A and B lines intersect at Roma Termini station. A new branch of the B line (B1) opened on 13 June 2012 after an estimated building cost of €500&nbsp;million. B1 connects to line B at Piazza Bologna and has four stations over a distance of {{cvt|3.9|km|mi|0}}.

A third line, the C line, is under construction with an estimated cost of €3&nbsp;billion and will have 30 stations over a distance of {{cvt|25.5|km|mi|0}}. It will partly replace the existing Termini-Pantano rail line. It will feature full automated, driverless trains.<ref>{{cite news |first=Tom |last=Kington |title=Roman remains threaten metro |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/may/14/italy.artnews |work={{wipe|The Guardian}} |date=14 May 2007 |access-date=10 August 2008 |location=London |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831074912/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/may/14/italy.artnews |archive-date=31 August 2013}}</ref> The first section with 15 stations connecting Pantano with the quarter of Centocelle in the eastern part of the city, opened on 9 November 2014.<ref>{{cite news |title=Metro C, apre la Pantano-Centocelle: folla di romani all'inaugurazione |url=http://www.ilmessaggero.it/ROMA/CRONACA/metro_c_atac_sindaco_apertura_pantano_centocelle/notizie/1002186.shtml |access-date=11 November 2014 |work=Il Messaggero |date=9 November 2014 |language=it |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111014416/http://ilmessaggero.it/ROMA/CRONACA/metro_c_atac_sindaco_apertura_pantano_centocelle/notizie/1002186.shtml |archive-date=11 November 2014}}</ref> The end of the work was scheduled in 2015, but archaeological findings often delay underground construction work.

A fourth line, D line, is also planned. It will have 22 stations over a distance of {{cvt|20|km|mi|0}}. The first section was projected to open in 2015 and the final sections before 2035, but due to the city's financial crisis, the project has been put on hold.

Above-ground public transport in Rome is made up of a bus, tram and urban train network (FR lines). The bus network has in excess of 350 bus lines and over eight thousand bus stops, whereas the more-limited tram system has {{cvt|39|km|0}} of track and 192 stops.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.atac.roma.it/index.asp?p=2&i=616&o=3&m=1&a=7&ci=45&tpg=2&lingua=ITA |title=ATAC |website=atac.roma.it |language=it |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120106212503/http://www.atac.roma.it/index.asp?p=2&i=616&o=3&m=1&a=7&ci=45&tpg=2&lingua=ITA |archive-date=6 January 2012 |url-status=dead |access-date=22 August 2019}}</ref> There are also [[Engineering:Trolleybus|trolleybus]]es.<ref name="juts2009">{{cite book |title=Jane's Urban Transport Systems 2009–2010 |last=Webb |first=Mary |publisher=Jane's Information Group |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-7106-2903-6 |location=Coulsdon |oclc=316826596}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Biology:Outline of Rome|Outline of Rome]]
* SPQR
* Tourism in Italy

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.comune.roma.it/ Comune of Rome] {{in lang|it}}
* [http://www.turismoroma.it/?lang=en <!--http://www.romaturismo.it/--> APT (official Tourist Office) of the City of Rome] {{in lang|en}}
* [http://en.museiincomuneroma.it/ Rome Museums – official site]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170601075643/http://en.museiincomuneroma.it/ |date=1 June 2017 }} {{in lang|en}}.
* [http://en.museicapitolini.org/ Capitoline Museums] {{in lang|en}}

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