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Rome Information and Rome Tourism |
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Rome
is an immense open museum where works of art, archaeological
 remains
and innumerable monuments were accumulated over the past 3 Millennia.
It is simply full of history with an enormous amount of
spectacular ancient Roman monuments, including the Vatican City, The Forum, from
where Julius Caesar once governed ancient Rome, the Colosseum and the ruins of
the Circus Maximus. It is also a maze of interlocking piazzas, streets,
fountains, vicoli that curve in on themselves.
Rome is wide and intimate, pious and profane,
indifferent and reverent, with a street life
that is among the most vibrant to be found in
Europe.
The
Vatican
City is actually the world's smallest
independent sovereign state, established by
the Lateran Treaties in 1929. It covers an
area of just 108 acres / 43 hectares,
situated entirely within the city of
Rome, sprawling over a hill west of
the
River Tiber, and separated from the
rest of the city by a wall.
The Vatican City is famous for its
magnificent St Peter’s Basilica, the
Pope’s residence,
the
Sistine Chapel and the
Vatican Museum, which contains the
major works of art and valuable pictures.
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