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Almost 500 years old, this map of Rome by Mario Cartaro (from 1575) shows the city's primary monuments. Castel Sant'Angelo, or Hadrian's Mausoleum, is a Roman monument built in 134 AD, radically altered in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and crowned with 16th and 17th-century statues.
It is the fourth-most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. It is the center of the Metropolitan City of Rome, which has a population of 4.3 million residents. Rome is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of the Tiber.
Italy, whose territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region, [1] is located in southern Europe and comprises the long, boot-shaped Italian Peninsula crossed by the Apennines, the southern side of Alps, the large plain of the Po Valley and some islands including Sicily and Sardinia. Italy is part of the Northern Hemisphere.
Location map Italy Rome.png Module:Location map/data/Italy Rome is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Rome . The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Under Augustus, a "global map of the known world" was displayed for the first time in public at Rome, coinciding with the creation of the most comprehensive political geography that survives from antiquity, the Geography of Strabo. [54]
Satellite view of the peninsula in March 2003. The Italian peninsula (Italian: penisola italica or penisola italiana), also known as the Italic Peninsula, Apennine Peninsula, Italian Boot, or Mainland Italy, is a peninsula, within the Italian geographical region, extending from the southern Alps in the north to the central Mediterranean Sea in the south which comprises much of the country of ...
Rome is the third most visited city in Europe, and 12th in the world, with 9.4 million arrivals in 2017. [310] Venice and Florence are among the world's top 100 destinations. Italy has the most World Heritage Sites of any country: 59, [ 311 ] of which 53 are cultural and 6 natural .
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ancient Rome: Ancient Rome – former civilization that thrived on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to become one of the largest empires in the ancient world. [1]