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Rome ; Latin: Rōma is a city and special comune in Italy. Rome is the capital of Italy and the capital of Lazio . With 2.8 million residents in 1,285.3 km , it is also the country's largest and most populated comune and fourth-most populous city in the European Union by population... within city limits. Between 3.2 and 3.7 million people live in the Rome metropolitan area. The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy. Rome's history spans two and a half thousand years. It was the capital city of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, which was the dominant power in Western Europe and the lands bordering the Mediterranean for over seven hundred years from the 1st century BC until the 7th century AD and the city is regarded as one of the birthplaces of western civilization. Since the 1st century AD Rome has been the seat of the Papacy and, after the end of Byzantine domination, in the 8th century it became the capital of the Papal States, which lasted until 1870.
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Cinecittà is a large film studio in Rome that is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini and his head of cinema Luigi Freddi for propaganda purposes, under the slogan "Il cinema è l'arma più forte" . The studios were bombed by the... Western Allies during World War II. Following the war, between 1945 and 1947, the studios of Cinecittà were used as a displaced persons' camp --see "History of Cinecitta" under External Links below. In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini. After a period of near-bankruptcy in the 1980s, Cinecittà was privatized by the Italian government. It hosted the 1991 Eurovision Song Contest. The venue had been changed from Sanremo because of security concerns. Pink Floyd performed, on three consecutive nights, at the studio during The Division Bell Tour on September 19-21, 1994. On August 9, 2007, a fire destroyed about 3000 m² of the Cinecittà lot and surroundings.
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