rome

Rome (Italian: Roma, Latin: Roma) is the capital city of Italy an of the Lazio region, as well as the country's largest and most populous city, 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.

Trivia about rome

On June 5, 1944 FDR said of the capture of this city, "One up and two to go"
It's been said that "All roads lead to" this "Eternal City"
Napoleon said, "The history of" this Italian city "is the history of the world"
According to tradition, Romulus founded this city in April 753 B.C.
This city's Circus Maximus hippodrome could hold 250,000 people, about 1/4 of its population
The church of Trinita Del Monti soars high above the Spanish Steps in this city
When Italy was declared united in 1861, it was still missing Venice & this current capital
The boys first teamed up in 1990 for a concert at the Baths of Caracalla in this city
Where all roads were supposed to have led
Like the "Aeneid", Ennius' mostly-lost epic "Annales" traces this city's founding back to Aeneas
We know Hadrian's study center called the Athenaeum was in this city, we just don't know where
The tiny independent nation of Vatican City is completely surrounded by this city
Ottorino Respighi wrote a symphonic poem about the "Fountains Of" this Italian capital
This ancient city grew powerful in part because the Tiber provides a convenient route to the sea 15 miles away
Ancient city seen here (the Colosseum is in the middle) in a National Geographic illustration
Famed for 7 hills / A forum for discussion / All roads lead to here
In the Middle Ages this city's main street, Via del Corso, was used as a horse-racing course
The waiting room of NYC's old Penn Station was inspired by the Baths of Caracalla built in the 3rd century in this city
In January of 1377, Pope Gregory XI moved the papacy back to this city
In 146 B.C. what's now Greece was conquered by this western Mediterranean power
Tosca leaps to her death from the parapet of the Castel Sant'Angelo in this Italian capital
When Hannibal was 9, his father forced him to swear eternal hatred for this city
Hadrian's Wall is in England; Hadrian's Tomb is in this city
After a 15-year restoration, the ruins of Nero's Golden Palace, Domus Aurea, reopened in this city in 1999
"Not that I loved Caesar less", says Brutus, "but that I loved" this city "more"
To complete the kingdom that is now modern Italy, Victor Emmanuel seized this city from Pope Pius IX in 1870
Tradition says this city was founded in 753 B.C. on one of a group of 7 hills
Clement I was the fourth bishop of this city; Saint Peter was the first
Sophia Loren, 1934
The "Rimsky" in Rimsky-Korsakov's name is Russian for this Italian city
"The Eternal City"
A replica of this city's Trajan's Column stands near Bucharest's treasury
It's the European city you'll visit to see the dome seen here
Director Roberto Rossellini
According to tradition, tossing a coin into this city's Trevi Fountain ensures a return visit
Poe rhymed, "Thy naiad airs have brought me home / To the glory that was Greece / And the grandeur that was" this
St. Ambrose said, "If you are at" this city "live in (its) style:...elsewhere live as they live elsewhere"
Augustus Caesar said he found it "A city of bricks and left it a city of marble"
To Ausonius it was "First among cities, home of the gods"
The name of the Farnese bull comes from the Farnese Palace in this Italian capital where it was once kept
We'll fly into this city's Leonardo Da Vinci international airport, popularly called Fiumicino
"The Eternal City"
Virgil's "Aeneid" tells the story of the founder of this city
In 87 B.C. Gaius Marius & his pal Cinna captured this city
After the Gauls besieged this city in 390 B.C., they were bought off so they'd go home
Bertolucci & Pirandello gained wisdom at this city's university, known as La Sapienza, "Wisdom"
After its forces put down a revolt led by Vercingetorix, the area came under this empire's control in 52 B.C.
The First through Fourth Macedonian Wars pitted Macedonia against this republic
A freed slave named Terence was one of the greatest comic playwrights of this ancient civilization
Livy's "Ab Urbe Condita", or "History From the Founding of the City", is about this city
The quirky drama "Picket Fences" was set in this town in Wisconsin, not in Italy
It was originally built on 7 hills & enclosed by the Servian Wall
Proverbially speaking, "all roads lead to" this city
This Georgia city was founded in 1834 on a site that had 7 hills
Messalina, empress of this, messed around so much her husband Claudius had her executed
Neptune's Grotto in this classical city attracted many artists
With an average car speed of 6 mph, it's easy to see how this "Eternal City" wasn't built in a day
An apple:___ beauty
Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers in this city is featured in the novel "Angels & Demons"
The Trevi is the third of Respighi's 4 "Fountains of" this city
The main historical figure connected with the St. Valentine legend was martyred in this imperial capital
To Pope Innocent II, it was "the capital of the world"; to us, it's a world capital
Istituto Guglielmo Tagliacarne
Ali won a light heavyweight boxing gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in this European capital
Forces of this empire occupied York around 71 A.D. & called it Eboracum
It was Lord Byron who wrote, "When falls the coliseum", it "shall fall; and when" it "falls -- the world"
Andrea Palladio's 1554 book on "The Antiquities of" this city was the standard guidebook for some 200 years
If the other twin had founded it, it might have been called "Reme"
When the second temple was destroyed in 70 A.D., its menorah was carried off to this city
It's the "Open City" in the title of Rossellini's film about the German occupation
After riots by his opponents, St. Paul was arrested & taken to this city where he's believed to have been executed
June 8, 68:Servius Sulpicius Galba becomes this empire's emperor
A sabine god of war, Quirinus gave his name to one of the fabled hills of this city
Respighi wrote symphonic poems about this city's pines & fountains
The name of this world capital precedes "Beauty" in the name of an apple variety that's excellent for baking
The Normans, who had at first been invited to this formerly imperial city, eventually sacked it in 1084
When in this capital, you're between the Apennine Mountains and the Tyrrhenian Sea
The Esquiline & the Viminal are 2 of the 7 hills on which this ancient city was built
Most of the ancient portion of this city lies on the east bank of the Tiber River
Amid the wreckage of this city's capitol, Edward Gibbon decided to write of its decline & fall
In 1480, Lucrezia Borgia was born in what is now this capital
Commodus, emperor of this, enjoyed dressing up like Hercules (he thought he was Hercules reincarnated)
This European capitol is famous for its fountains, like the one seen here depicting Triton
A king by the name of Crocus was a leader of the Alamanni Tribe when it attacked forces of this empire in 260 A.D.
You can see the Baths of Caracalla in this world capital
2 days before D-Day, Allied troops entered this formerly fascist capital city
Pierre Corneille's masterworks "Horace" & "Cinna" are set in this city
The Capitoline Museum,the Baths of Caracalla
(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Monticello in Virginia.) Monticello's famous dome, which we have the privilege of seeing from the inside, was inspired by the ancient Temple of Vesta in this city
This city that had a disastrous fire in 64 A.D. employed a corps of pumpers called siphonarii
The shoot of the 1963 epic "Cleopatra" was in this city where the film is partly set
Carlo Maderno is famed for his baroque facade for the Church of Santa Susanna in this world capital
Placido Domingo starred in a 1992 TV version of "Tosca", taped in its actual settings in this capital city
Via Veneto in this city figured prominently in the movie "La Dolce Vita"
2010, starring Kristen Bell: "When in ____"
In the third century A.D. it was "Martyr, She Wrote!" when St. Cecelia defied this civilization's gods
An example of antithesis is the line "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved" this "more"
It's the city where Charlemagne spent Christmas Day, 800
In this city you can walk a flight of 137 steps up to Trinita Dei Monti, a 15th C. French church built by Charles VIII
If John Keats had sent a postcard from his last home, it would have been postmarked this city

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