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Of all Italy's historic cities, it's perhaps
Rome which exerts the most compelling fascination. There's more to see
here than in any other city in the world, with the relics of over two thousand
years of inhabitation packed into its sprawling urban area. You could spend a
month here and still only scratch the surface. As a historic place, it is
special enough; as a contemporary European capital, it is utterly unique..................
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.For the traveller, all of this is much less evident than the
sheer weight of
history that the city supports. There are of course the city's classical
features, most visibly the Colosseum, and the Forum and Palatine Hill; but from
here there's an almost uninterrupted sequence of monuments - from early
Christian basilicas, Romanesque churches, Renaissance palaces, right up to the
fountains and churches of the Baroque period, which perhaps more than any other
era has determined the look of the city today. There is the modern epoch too,
from the ponderous Neoclassical architecture of the post-Unification period to
the self-publicizing edifices of the Mussolini years.....
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