ROME (Roma), is the capital of the country of Italy. Rome is located in the central portion of the Italian peninsula, on the Tiber River, about 15 miles inland from the Tyrrhenian Sea. Historic Rome was once the capital of an ancient republic and empire whose armies and process of civil government defined the Western world in antiquity and left seemingly indelible imprints thereafter. Rome is the "Eternal City", remaining today a political capital, a religious center, the site of major pinnacles of artistic and intellectual achievement and a memorial to the creative imagination of the past.
