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Rome is Italy's capital. Famous landmarks include the Colosseum, the Pantheon and St. Peter's Basilica.

Vatican City is technically a separate country within the city of Rome.

Contrary to popular belief, it was not built in a day.

Rome in Fiction

Multimedia

• Any work of fiction set in Ancient Rome, natch.

Film

• Most Hollywood blockbusters that feature a worldwide Monumental Damage Montage will show the Colosseum, despite it being half-ruined already.
• Eurotrip
• Ocean's Twelve
• Roman Holiday, obviously.
• Bicycle Thieves
• 8½
• La Dolce Vita
• In Munich, one of the targets is killed in Rome.
• Hudson Hawk

Literature

• Jumper
• Parts of Angels & Demons

Theatre

• Nine

Video Games

• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood takes place almost entirely in Rome during the Borgia reign over Italy.