City of Rome

Rome started as a small community centered on 7 hills by the Tiber River. Rome is the name of a city and the name of the great ancient power that spread as an empire through western Europe, into the Middle East and northern Africa.

Rome is the capital city of Italy and in ancient times, of the Roman Empire.

The pomoerium was originally an area circling the inhabited area of the city of Rome.

Monuments of the seven hills of Ancient Rome.

Articles on Rome's buildings, monuments, and Roman architecture.

Rome was founded, according to the most common founding legend, by Romulus, the eponymus son of Mars and Rhea Silvia, a Vestal Virgin.

The Colosseum is also known as the Flavian Amphitheater. The Colosseum is a large sports arena.

The cloaca maxima was the sewer system built in the sixth or seventh century B.C., by one of the kings of Rome -- probably Tarquinius Priscus, although Livy attributes it to Tarquin the Proud -- to drain the marshes in the valleys between the hills into the Tiber River.

The Tiber River is the main river of Rome.

The curia was part of the political center of Roman life, the Roman forum's comitium, which was at the time a rectangular space mostly aligned with the cardinal points, with the curia to the north.

Photo of a reconstruction of the Campus Martius in Rome.

What do you call Rome?

Here are some of the names and synonyms for Rome.

The Scalae Gemoniae are the Gemonian Stairs.

Many people in ancient Rome lived in an insula.

The Lacus Curtius is located in the Roman Forum and is named for a Sabine named Curtius.

The Servian Wall that surrounded the city of Rome was supposedly built by the Roman king Servius Tullius in the 6th century B.C.

Saepta was the voting precinct in the campus Martius.

From Lacus Curtius. The Campus Martius is the level ground between the slopes of the Capitoline, the Quirinal, and the Pincian hills, and the Tiber.