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Rome on a motorcylce http://troppospacchiuso.blogspot.com/(pronounced /roʊm/; Italian: Roma, pronounced [ˈroma]; Latin: Roma) is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with more than 2.7 million residents, and a metropolitan area of almost 4 million inhabitants. It is located in the central-western portion of the Italian peninsula, on the Tiber river.Rome stands on top of more than two and a half thousand years of history, was once the largest city in the world and the centre of Western civilisation. Rome is still the heart of Christianity, being seat of the Roman Catholic Church which controls the Vatican City as its sovereign territory, an enclave of Rome.Today, Rome is a modern, cosmopolitan city, and the third most-visited tourist destination in the European Union. Due to its influence in politics, media, the arts and culture, Rome has been described as a global city.[5]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, ENI, and Telecom Italia.[6]As one of the few major European cities that escaped World War II relatively unscathed, central Rome remains essentially Renaissance and Baroque in character. The historic centre of Rome is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.[7]History of RomeFrom founding to Empire Capitoline Wolf suckles the infant twins Romulus and RemusAccording to a legend, Rome was founded by the twins Romulus and Remus on April 21, 753 BC.[8]. Archaeological evidence supports the view that Rome grew from pastoral settlements on the Palatine Hill built in the area of the future Roman Forum. While some archaeologists argue that Rome was indeed founded in the middle of the 8th century BC, the date is subject to controversy.[9] The original settlement developed into the capital of the Roman Kingdom (ruled by a succession of seven kings, according to tradition), and then the Roman Republic (from 510 BC, governed by the Senate), and finally the Roman Empire (from 27 BC, ruled by an Emperor). This success depended on military conquest, commercial predominance, as well as selective assimilation of neighbouring civilizations, most notably the Etruscans and Greeks. From its foundation, Rome was undefeated in war, although losing occasional battles, until 386 BC when Rome was occupied by the Celts (one of the three main Gallic tribes), and then recovered by Romans in the same year.[10] According to the history, the Gauls offered to deliver Rome back to its people for a thousand pounds of gold, but the Romans refused, preferring to take back their city by force of arms rather than ever admitting defeat.Roman dominance expanded over most of Europe and the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, while its population surpassed one million inhabitants. For almost a thousand years, Rome was the most politically important, richest and largest city in the Western world, and remained so after the Empire started to decline and was split, even if it ultimately lost its capital status to Milan and then Ravenna, and was surpassed in prestige by the Eastern capital Constantinople.Fall of the Empire and Middle Ages Fifteenth-century miniature depicting the Sack of Rome of 410.With the reign of Constantine I, the Bishop of Rome gained political as well as religious importance, eventually becoming known as the Pope and establishing Rome as the centre of the Catholic Church. After the Sack of Rome in 410 AD by Alaric I and the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD, Rome alternated between Byzantine and plundering by Germanic barbarians. Its population declined to a mere 20,000 during the Early Middle Ages, reducing the sprawling city to groups of inhabited buildings interspersed among large areas of ruins and vegetation. Rome remained nominally part of the Byzantine Empire rule until 751 AD when the Lombards finally abolished the Exarchate of Ravenna. In 756, Pepin the Short gave the pope temporal jurisdiction over Rome and surrounding areas, thus creating the Papal States.Rome remained the capital of the Papal States until its annexation into the Kingdom of Italy in 1870; the city became a major pilgrimage site during the Middle Ages and the focus of struggles between the Papacy and the Holy Roman Empire starting with Charlemagne, who was crowned its first emperor in Rome in 800 by Pope Leo III. Apart from brief periods as an independent city during the Middle Ages, Rome kept its status of Papal capital and "holy city" for centuries, even when the Pope briefly relocated to Avignon (13091377).
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Added: September 19, 2008
eventi a roma e matrimoni a roma
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Added: August 31, 2008
The LUXOMETRO is a work of temporal land art without precedence. A monumental structure of light, its luminous lines glow in time with the rhythm of music. A powerful and minimalist installation, visible from miles around, it proved capable of holding its own in the urban panorama, and of altering the accepted horizon. The select structure to realize this evocative project was the largest of Rome's four Gasholders, one of the 20th century's most interesting industrial archaeology monuments. It is the largest gasholder in Europe, situated by the Aureliane walls in a vast archaeo-industrial area from the beginning of the century (now the city centre) that borders on the Via Ostiense and the River Tiber. The great Gasholder, which is preserved as a protected part of our environmental and historical heritage, soars at a height of 92 metres during the day, and disappears into the darkness at night. The "Luxometro" project was born from Angelo Bonello's idea of repositioning the Gasholder through artistic intervention, turning the industrial structure into a sculpture of light with the application, along the entirety of its "metallic body", of over 10 kilometres of continuous illuminated cable, made up of over a million LED lights capable of emitting directional light, transforming the mighty Gasholder from an emblem of industrial archaeology into a symbol of the cultural ferment of contemporary Rome. The Luxometro, supported by the Mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni and sponsored by ENI/TALGAS, was inaugurated on the 8 September 2006 on the occasion of Rome's "Notte Bianca" celebrations. The sculpture was lit at various times over the course of the following ten days, becoming a protagonist of the last nights of the Roman Summer.
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Keywords: angelo bonello performing arts kitonb notte bianca veltroni arte spettacolo luxometro gazometro eni scaroni italgas ostiense land art
Added: August 24, 2008
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Keywords: serate sul tevere crociere
Added: August 16, 2008
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Keywords: serate sul tevere crociere
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Serate sul teverehttp://www.tiber-river.com
Author: romanguide
Keywords: serate sul tevere crociere
Added: August 16, 2008
Serate sul teverehttp://www.tiber-river.com
Author: romanguide
Keywords: serate sul tevere crociere
Added: August 16, 2008
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When it comes to choosing a cultural and relaxing holiday, rent villas in Italy in or near Perugia. A holiday in Perugia is a reward for those who love medieval towns. Perugia is the capital of Umbria and is located near the Tiber River, between Rome and Florence. It is nestled on a sloping hill, about 500 metres above sea level.
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