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ROMA – La Città Storica

"Historic Centre of Roma, the properties of the Holy See in that City, enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura"

Founded, according to legend, by Romulus and Remus in 753 B.C., Rome was first the centre of the Roman Republic, then of the Roman Empire, and it became the capital of the Christian world in the 4th century. The World Heritage site, extended in 1990 to the walls of Urban VIII, includes some of the major monuments of antiquity such as the Forums, the Mausoleum of Augustus, the Mausoleum of Hadrian, the Pantheon, Trajan's Column and the Column of Marcus Aurelius, as well as the religious and public buildings of papal Rome.

Inscription on the Unesco World Heritage List: 1980 Historic Centre of Roma, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura; 1990 extended to the walls of Urban VIII.

Criteria for Acceptance into the Unesco World Heritage List
Id. n. 91, 91bis 1980 e 1990 C (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (vi)

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