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  2. Dark Rome Tours & Walks - Wikipedia

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    Dark Rome Tours is a tour company which offers guided tours in Rome, the Vatican, [1] [2] Florence, Venice, Milan and Paris. They specialize in small group tours which access to major historical and cultural sites without waiting in line. [ 3 ]

  3. List of historical states of Italy - Wikipedia

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    Republic of Venice: 3,500,000 (140,000 in the city of Venice itself), standing army and navy of 30,000, 12-15 ships of at least 54 guns plus frigates and brigs Kingdom of Sardinia : 2,900,000 (2,400,000 on the mainland and 500,000 on the island), 12-15 fortified cities and towns (largest being Turin at 80,000), standing army of 25,000, which ...

  4. Tourism in Italy - Wikipedia

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    The Colosseum in Rome, one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world The city of Venice, ranked many times as the most beautiful city in the world [1] [2] The Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence by Filippo Brunelleschi, which has the largest brick dome in the world, [3] [4] and is considered a masterpiece of world architecture The Sassi di Matera have been described by Fodor ...

  5. Italian city-states - Wikipedia

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    In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Milan, Venice, and Florence were able to conquer other city-states, creating regional states. The 1454 Peace of Lodi ended their struggle for hegemony in Italy, attaining a balance of power (see Italian Renaissance). [11]

  6. Metropolitan cities of Italy - Wikipedia

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    The original 1990 law defined as metropolitan cities the comuni of Turin, Milan, Venice, Genoa, Bologna, Florence, Rome, Bari, Naples and their respective hinterlands, reserving the autonomous regions the right to individuate metropolitan areas in their territory. [2] In 2009, amendments added Reggio Calabria to the list. [3]

  7. List of World Heritage Sites in Italy - Wikipedia

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    Metropolitan City of Rome Capital: 1999 907; i, ii, iii (cultural) Villa Adriana or "Hadrian's Villa" in Tivoli, outside Rome, was built in the 2nd century CE as a retreat for the Emperor Hadrian. It combines architectural elements from Greece, Egypt, and Rome. The complex includes residential and recreational buildings, gardens, and pools.

  8. High-speed rail in Italy - Wikipedia

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    High-speed service was introduced on the Rome-Milan line in 1988–89 with the ETR 450 Pendolino train, with a top speed of 250 km/h (160 mph) and cutting travel times from about 5 hours to 4. [7] The prototype train ETR X 500 was the first Italian train to reach 300 km/h (190 mph) on the Direttissima on 25 May 1989.

  9. Maritime republics - Wikipedia

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    Venice was therefore the largest of the maritime republics, as well as the most powerful state on the Italian peninsula. Venice's dominance in the eastern Mediterranean in the following centuries, despite the victory of Lepanto, was threatened and compromised by the expansion of the Ottoman Empire and by the shifting of trade to the Atlantic. [15]

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