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Rome is home to local rugby union teams such as Rugby Roma (winner of five Italian championships), Unione Rugby Capitolina and S.S. Lazio Rugby 1927 (rugby union branch of the multisport club S.S. Lazio). Every May, Rome hosts the Italian Open, an ATP Masters 1000 tennis tournament, on the clay courts of the Foro Italico. Cycling was popular in ...
Lazio was part of the short-lived Roman Republic, after which it became a puppet state of the First French Republic under the forces of Napoleon Bonaparte. Lazio was returned to the Papal States in October 1799. In 1809, it was annexed to the French Empire under the name of the Department of Tibre, but returned to the Pope's control in 1815.
Casinum. Latium was originally a small triangle of fertile, volcanic soil on which resided the tribe of the Latins or Latians. [5]It was located on the left bank (east and south) of the River Tiber, extending northward to the River Anio (a left-bank tributary of the Tiber) and southeastward to the Pomptina Palus (Pontine Marshes, now the Pontine Fields) as far south as the Circeian promontory. [6]
The Rome metropolitan area is a statistical area that is centred on the city of Rome, Italy. It consists of a part of the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital (formerly known as the Province of Rome) and a single comune, Aprilia, in the neighbouring Province of Latina. Both provinces are part of the region of Lazio. The metropolitan area does not ...
Opening ceremony of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome's Stadio Olimpico Stadio dei Marmi, a stadium in the Foro Italico sports complex. Sports in Rome. Basketball in Rome Pallacanestro Virtus Roma; Football in Rome Association football in Rome Derby della Capitale. A.S. Roma; S.S. Lazio; Rugby football in Rome Italy national rugby union team ...
The main harbour which serves Rome is the Port of Civitavecchia, located about 62 km (39 mi) northwest of the city, [7] part of the "Motorways of the Sea", it is linked to several Mediterranean ports and is one of the busiest cruise ports in the world. A 3-line metro system called the Metropolitana operates in the Metropolitan City of Rome ...
The province of Rome (Italian: provincia di Roma) was one of the five provinces that formed part of the Lazio region of Italy. It was established in 1870 and disestablished in 2014. It was essentially coterminous with the Rome metropolitan area. The city of Rome was the provincial capital. During the 1920s, the boundary of the province shrank ...
Rhaetia II (central Austria, part of southern Germany, and part of northeastern Italy) Aemilia (the Emilia part of Emilia-Romagna) Flaminia et Picenum Annonarium (Romagna and northern Marche) Diocesis Italia suburbicaria (Italy "under the government of the urbs", i.e. Rome) Tuscia et Umbria (Tuscany, Umbria and the northern part of coastal Lazio)