Picturesque Rome, capital of Italy

The city is located in the central-western part of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River in the Lazio region

Rome or Romans (Italian: Roma) is the capital of Italy and the municipality and the largest city in the country and the most populous with more than 2.7 million people spread 1,285.3 km 2. The city is located in the central-western part of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River in the Lazio region of Italy.

Extends history of Rome two thousand and five hundred years. The city was the capital of the Roman Kingdom and is one of the birth places of Western civilization and the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, which was the dominant power in Western Europe and the lands bordering the Mediterranean for more than 700 years since the first century BC to the seventh century. Since the first century AD and the Rome headquarters of the papacy and after the end of Byzantine domination in the eighth century, became the capital of the Papal States, which lasted until 1870. In 1871, Rome became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy, and then the capital of the Italian Republic in 1946.