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With 2 876 051 inhabitants it is the most populous municipality in Italy and the fourth in the European Union, while with 1.287.36 km² is the largest municipality in Italy and third in the European continent for the breadth of the communal territory. It is also the European city with the largest area of ​​green areas.
Founded traditionally on April 21, 753 BC (although recent excavations in the Lapis Niger would date the foundation two centuries earlier), over the course of its three millennia of history, it was the first great metropolis of humanity, the heart of one of the most important ancient civilizations that influenced society, culture, language, literature, art, architecture, philosophy, religion, law and customs of the following centuries. The place of origin of the Latin language was the capital of the Roman Empire, extending its rule throughout the Mediterranean basin and much of Europe, the Pontifical State, under the temporal power of the popes, and the Kingdom of Italy ( from 1871 to 1946).
Its historical center, bordered by the perimeter of the Aurora Walls, overlaps with nearly three millennia testimonies, is an expression of the historical, artistic and cultural heritage of the Western European world and in 1980, along with the extraterritorial properties of the Holy See in the city, inserted in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, a measure extending in 1990 to the territories within the gianicolese walls built by Pope Urbano VIII.