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Agrigento	Alessandria
Ancona	Aosta
Arezzo	Ascoli Piceno
Asti	Avellino
Bari	Belluno
Benevento	Bergamo
Biella	Bologna
Bolzano	Brescia
Brindisi	Cagliari
Caltanissetta	Campobasso
Caserta	Catania
Catanzaro	Cesena
Chieti	Como
Cosenza	Cremona
Crotone	Florence
Foggia	Forli
Frosinone	Genoa
Gorizia	Isernia
La Spezia	Lecce
Lecco	Livorno
Lucca	Macerata
Mantova	Massa-Carrara
Matera	Messina
Milan	Modena
Naples	Novara
Nuoro	Ogliastra
Olbia	Oristano
Padova	Palermo
Parma	Pavia
Perugia	Pesaro
Pescara	Piacenza
Pisa	Pistoia
Pordenone	Reggio Calabria
Potenza	Reggio Emilia
Ravenna	Rieti
Rimini	Rome
Rovigo	Salerno
Sassari	Savona
Siena	Siracusa
Taranto	Teramo
Terni	Trapani
Trento	Trieste
Turin	Udine
Urbino	Venice
Vercelli	Verona
Vicenza	Viterbo

Welcome to Rome, Italy!

Rome (Italian: Roma) is the capital city of Italy and of the Lazio region, as well as the country's largest and most populous comune, with more than 2.7 million residents (December 2006, demo.istat.it). Its metropolitan area is Italy's second after Milan. It is located in the central-western portion of the Italian peninsula, where the river Aniene joins the Tiber. The Mayor of Rome is Walter Veltroni.

An enclave of Rome is the State of the Vatican City, the sovereign territory of the Holy See, the smallest nation in the world, and the capital of the only religion to have representation in the United Nations (as a non-member observer state).

Rome, Caput mundi ("capital of the world"), la Città Eterna ("the Eternal City"), Limen Apostolorum ("threshold of the Apostles"), la città dei sette colli ("the city of the seven hills") or simply l'Urbe ("the City"), is thoroughly modern and cosmopolitan. As one of the few major European cities that escaped World War II relatively unscathed, central Rome remains essentially Renaissance and Baroque in character. The Historic Centre of Rome is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

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Of the hundreds of Italian cities, here are nine of its most famous:

Rome City Guide - (Roma):
The capital, both of Italy and of the ancient Roman Empire; center of the Roman Catholic Church (the Vatican).
Bologna City Guide
A major trade fair city.
Florence City Guide - (Firenze):
History, art, architecture. Uffizi gallery, David of Michelangelo Buonarroti.
Genoa City Guide - (Genova)
A vibrant and historical port city, birth place of Columbus.
Milan City Guide - (Milano)
Shares with Paris the title of fashion capital of the world and is the main financial and business center in the country.
Naples City Guide - (Napoli)
With its famous gulf and Vesuvius volcano, including Herculaneum and Pompeii.
Pisa City Guide
Home of the famous Leaning Tower.
Venice City Guide - (Venezia)
History, art. Saint Mark's Square. The city is built on a lagoon, filled with canals, with no roads for cars. Very poetic and romantic.
Verona City Guide
A restored Roman coliseum is the stage for modern opera productions. Verona is the city where Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is based.

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