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Rome |
Rome is a heady blend of artistic and architectural masterpieces, classical ruins, and extravagant baroque churches and piazzas. The city's 2,700 years of history are on display everywhere you look. The ancient rubs shoulders with the medieval, the modern runs into the Renaissance, and the result is like nothing so much as an open-air museum. Julius Caesar and Nero, the Vandals and the Borgias, Raphael and Caravaggio, Napoléon and Mussolini -- they and countless other political, cultural, and spiritual luminaries have left their mark on the city.
More than Florence, more than Venice, Rome is Italy's treasure trove, packed with masterpieces from more than two millennia of artistic achievement. This is where a metropolis once bustled around the carved marble monuments of the Roman Forum, where centuries later Michelangelo Buonarotti painted Christian history in the Sistine Chapel, where Gian Lorenzo Bernini's nymphs and naiads dance in their fountains, and where an empire of gold was worked into the crowns of centuries of rulers.
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Full Name : Rome ; Area : 150 sq km, 58 sq miles ; Population : 3,800,000 ; Country Dialing Code : +39 (Area code 06); Electricity: 220V 50Hz ;
Climate : The weather in Rome during summer is uncomfortably hot, temperatures often exceeding 95°F (35°C) at midday, Mid-winter is mild, the average temperature in December hovering around 55°F (13°C) ;
Languages :
Italian (official), French, German, Slovenian, Albanian ;
Religion :
84% Roman Catholic, 6% Jewish, Muslim and Protestant ;Best Time to Visit :
The best time to travel to Rome is in springtime, when skies are blue and the weather warm ;
International Airport : Rome Leonardo da Vinci Fiumicino Airport.
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