2. Rome, Italian: Roma pronounced Latin: Rōma) is a
city and special comune ("Roma Capitale") in Italy.
Rome is the capital of Italy and also of Lazio (Latin:
Latium). With 2.8 million residents in 1,285.3 km2
(496.3 sq mi), it is also the country's largest and most
populated comune and fifth-most populous city in the
European Union by population within city limits.
Between 3.2 and 3.8 million people live in the Rome
urban and metropolitan area.[3][4][5][6][7][8] The city is
located in the central-western portion of the Italian
Peninsula, on the Tiber within the Lazio region of
Italy. Rome is referred to as "The Eternal City", a
notion expressed by ancient Roman poets and

4.  Legend of the Founding of Rome
Traditional stories handed down by the ancient
Romans themselves explain the earliest history of their
city in terms of legend and myth. The most familiar of
these myths, and perhaps the most famous of all
Roman myths, is the story of Romulus and Remus, the
twins who were suckled by a she-wolf. They decided to
build a city, but after an argument, Romulus killed his
brother. According to the Roman annalists, this
happened on 21 April 753 BC.[This legend had to be
reconciled with a dual tradition, set earlier in time, that
had the Trojan refugee Aeneas escape to Italy and
found the line of Romans through his son Iulus, the
namesake of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.[This was
accomplished by the Roman poet Virgil in the first
century BC.

5.  Ethnic groups
According to the latest statistics conducted by
ISTAT,[62] approximately 9.5% of the
population consists of non-Italians. About half
of the immigrant population consists of those
of various other European origins (chiefly
Romanian, Polish, Ukrainian, and Albanian)
numbering a combined total of 131,118 or 4.7
percent of the population. The remaining 4.8
percent are those with non-European origins,
chiefly Filipinos (26,933), Bangladeshis (12,154),
Peruvians (10,530), and Chinese (10,283).

6.  The Esquilino rione, off Termini Railway Station, has
evolved into a largely immigrant neighbourhood; it is
now seen as Rome's Chinatown, but in fact immigrants
from more than a hundred different countries crowd
its busy streets and piazzas. A thriving commercial
district, Esquilino boasts dozens of restaurants
featuring every kind of international cuisine. There are
innumerable wholesale clothes shops: of the 1,300 or so
commercial premises operating in the district 800 are
Chinese-owned, around 300 are run by immigrants
from other countries around the world and some 200
are owned by Italians.
 Hundreds of Romani gypsies live in illegal trailer
camps on the city's outskirts. There is a growing
population of homeless people in Rome, mostly not
Italian and estimated at 7,000.

7.  Architecture
Rome's architecture over the centuries has greatly
developed, especially from the Classical and
Imperial Roman styles to modern Fascist
architecture. Rome was for a period one of the
world's main epicentres of classical architecture,
developing new forms such as the arch, the dome
and the vault. The Romanesque style in the 11th,
12th and 13th centuries was also widely used in
Roman architecture, and later the city became one
of the main centres of Renaissance and Baroque
architecture.