Rome's Old City, Italy
Description
Founded, according to legend, by Romulus and Remus in 753 B.C., Rome was first the center of the Roman Republic, then of the Roman Empire, and then, in the 4th century, of the Christian world. The World Heritage Site, extended in 1990 to the walls of Urban VIII, includes some of the major monuments of antiquity such as the Augustus Mausoleum, the Hadrian Mausoleum, the Pantheon, the Marcus Aurelius Column, as well as the religious and public buildings of Papal Rome.
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12 min 30 sec
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