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Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura
| Site number: | 91 |
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| Type of site: | Cultural | |
| Date: | 753 B.C. | |
| Date of Inscription: | 1980, 1990 | |
| Location: | Europe, Holy See and Italy, Province of Roma, Lazio region (IT) / Vatican City State (VA) | |
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Other languages: Alemmanic German, Asturian, Austro-Bavarian, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Limburgish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norman, Norwegian-bokmål, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Venetian, Vietnamese, Welsh
| Description: | According to legend Rome was founded by Romulus and Remus in 753 B.C., at first it was the centre of the Roman Republic, later the centre of the Roman Empire, and in the 4th century it became the capital of the Christian world. This World Heritage site, extended to include the walls of Urban VIII in 1990, incorporates various major monuments from antiquity such as the Mausoleum of Augustus, the Mausoleum of Hadrian, the Forums, the Pantheon, Trajan's Column and the Column of Marcus Aurelius, as well as the religious and public buildings of papal Rome. --WHMNet paraphrase from the description at WHC Site, where additional information is available. | |
| 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.The metropolitan area has a population of about 4 million. 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. It is 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.
Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura — known in English as the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls or St Paul-without-the-Walls — is one of four churches considered to be the great ancient basilicas of Rome. The Roman Catholic Church counts among them St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major, and St. Peter's. Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, named in 2005, is the current archpriest of this basilica. --Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. |
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| Source: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/91 | |
| Source2: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/91/video | |
| Reference: | 1. UNESCO World Heritage Center, Site Page. | |