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Hotel Splendide Royal, located in Rome historic centre between Via Veneto a... More...
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Starting from 280.00 € |
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Hotel Daniela is ideally located in a very green area close to Porta Maggio... More...
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Starting from 85.00 € |
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Inaugurated in March 2000, the Cascina Palace Hotel is located in a is a co... More...
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Starting from 49.00 € |
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The Principessa Tea Hotel is an elegant 1940's property situated in an impo... More...
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Starting from 75.00 € |
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Suite Oriani is an elegant Bed & Breakfast located in Parioli, one of the m... More...
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Starting from 79.00 € |
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The Borromini, A Boscolo First Class Hotel is a luxurious Rome 4 star hotel... More...
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Starting from 110.50 € |
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The luxurious H2000 Roma Bed & Breakfast is located right in the heart of R... More...
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Starting from 98.00 € |
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The Coronet Hotel is situated in the heart of Rome's historic centre, just ... More...
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Starting from 135.00 € |
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Hotel Italia enjoys a superb position in the historic centre of Rome, withi... More...
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Starting from 70.00 € |
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The hotel Piave is situated in Rome, in a central yet quiet area of the Ete... More...
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Starting from 85.00 € |
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Main cities
Rome
City centre
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The historical centre ville is dominated by the traditional "Seven hills of Rome": the Capitoline, Palatine, Viminal, Quirinal, Esquiline, Caelian, and Aventine hills. The Tiber flows south through Rome, with the city centre located where the midstream Tiber Island facilitated crossing. Large parts of the ancient city walls remain. The Servian Wall was built twelve years after Gauls' sack of the city in 390 BC; it contained most of the Esquiline and Caelian hills, as well as the whole of the other five. Rome grew out of the Servian Wall, but no more walls were constructed until 270 AD, when Aurelian began building the Aurelian Walls. These were almost twelve miles long, and was still the wall the troops of the Kingdom of Italy had to breach to enter the city in 1870.
Peripheral layout
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The ancient city within the walls covers about four percent of the modern municipality's 582 square miles. The old city is the smallest of Rome's twelve administrative zones. The walled city center is made up of 22 rioni (districts) [10] , surrounding it are 35 quartieri urbani (urban sectors), and within the city limits are six large suburbi (suburbs). The comune of Rome located outside the municipal boundaries about doubles the area of the actual city.
The belt Highway known as Grande Raccordo Anulare (G.R.A.) describes a huge circle around the capital, about six miles out from the city centre; unlike most Italian highways, the G.R.A. is toll-free. The circle ties together the antique roads that led to Rome: the Via Flaminia, Via Aurelia, Via Salaria, Via Tiburtina, Via Casilina and Via Appia. Large amounts of modern apartment buildings are located in the districts outside the centre, where contemporary architecture has not gone unnoticed. Many street frontages and show windows often change to keep up with the times and the Romans have succeeded in blending the old and the new.
Though relatively small, the old city center contains about 300 hotels and 300 pensioni over 200 palaces 900 churches eight of Rome's major parks, the residence of the President of the Italian Republic, the houses of the Parliament, offices of the city and city government, and many great and well-known monuments. The old city also contains thousands of workshops, offices, bars, and restaurants. Millions of tourists visit Rome annually, making it one of the most visited cities in the world.
Vatican City
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The city of Rome surrounds the Vatican City, the enclave of the Holy See, which is a separate sovereign state. It hosts Saint Peter's Square with the Saint Peter's Basilica. The open space before the basilica was redesigned by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, from 1656 to 1667, under the direction of Pope Alexander VII, as an appropriate forecourt, designed "so that the greatest number of people could see the Pope give his blessing, either from the middle of the façade of the church or from a window in the Vatican Palace" (Norwich 1975 p 175). In Vatican City there are also the prestigious Vatican Library, Vatican Museums with the Sistine Chapel, the Raphael Rooms and other important works of Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael, Giotto, Botticelli.
Museums and galleries
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The list of most important museums and galleries of Rome includes: the National Museum of Rome, the Museum of Roman Civilization, the Villa Giulia National Etruscan Museum, the Capitoline Museums, the Borghese Gallery, the Museum of Castel Sant'Angelo, the National Gallery of Modern Art.