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Discover Rome (Italy)


Rome is the metropolitan capital of Italy in the central Lazio region, and the ancient capital of the Roman Empire and Western World. The Eternal City embodies a lively spirit, both steeped in history and oozing cool modernity. Thousand-year-old churches and awe-inspiring ruins of the Roman Forum evoke Rome's spectacular history, and narrow cobbled streets in the Modern Centre open out onto magnificent monuments such as the Trevi Fountain, surrounded by tempting ice-cream parlors and delicious pizzerias. Cars and Vespas casually whizz around the Colosseum and Spanish Steps, moments from the tranquil lakes of the picturesque Villa Borghese gardens. Effortlessly elegant locals sip legendary Italian coffee in vibrant Piazza Navona and stroll by the flower sellers in Campo dei Fiori in Old Rome. Vatican City can be found across the River Tiber, home to St Peter's Basilica and Raphael and Michelangelo's exquisite frescoes of the Sistine Chapel.