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Rome has been the capital of Italy since 1871. Located in the center-west of the Italian peninsula, near the Tyrrhenian Sea, it is also the capital of the Lazio region, and was that of the Roman Empire for 357 years. In 2016, 2,867,215 inhabitants settled on 1,285 km2, making it the most populated municipality in Italy and the third largest in Europe after Moscow and London. The urban area has 4,356,403 inhabitants in 20164.5. It also has the peculiarity of containing a state enclosed within its territory: the Vatican City State (Stato della Città del Vaticano), of which the Pope is the sovereign. This is the only existing example of a state within a city. The history of Rome extends over more than twenty-eight centuries since its mythical foundation by Romulus in 753 BC. AD to its current role as the capital of the Italian Republic. Find all the info for visiting the attractions In Rome and the Vatican like the Chapelle Sixtine and the Vatican Museums, the Collosseum and the Patheon in Rome, Italy.