Rome
is an immense open museum where works of art,
archaeological
remains
and innumerable monuments were accumulated over the
past 3 Millennia.
It is simply full of
history with an enormous amount of spectacular
ancient Roman monuments, including the
Vatican City,
The Forum, from where Julius Caesar once governed
ancient Rome, the
Colosseum and the ruins of the
Circus Maximus. It is also a maze of interlocking
piazzas, streets, fountains, vicoli that curve in on
themselves. Rome is wide and intimate, pious
and profane, indifferent and reverent, with a
street life that is among the most vibrant to be
found in Europe.
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The
Vatican
City
is actually the world's
smallest independent sovereign state,
established by the Lateran Treaties in 1929.
It covers an area of just 108 acres / 43
hectares, situated entirely within the city
of
Rome, sprawling over a hill west of
the
River Tiber, and separated from the
rest of the city by a wall.
The
Vatican City is famous for its
magnificent St Peter’s Basilica, the
Pope’s residence,
the
Sistine Chapel and the
Vatican Museum, which contains the
major works of art and valuable pictures. |