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The catacombs are ancient underground cemeteries in Rome. Christians used the catacombs to not only bury their dead, but as meeting places where they could freely practice Christianity.
Underneath the Capuchin Church of the Immaculate Conception, located near Barbarini Square on Via Veneto, is the Capuchin Crypt. There are 6 rooms with over 4,000 monks' bones. The bones were nailed to the wall and arranged in patterns, such as cross, circle, etc. A large clock is made of finger bones, foot bones and vertebrae! Chandeliers made of bones are hung throughout, as well as decorations using skulls.
Cappuccino coffee is named after the color of these monks' robes.
There are pictures of these bone sculptures here:
Source: http://www3.sympatico.ca/tapholov/pages/bones.html
Women in ancient Rome dyed their hair with goat fat and beech wood ashes. Red and blonde were the most popular colors.
The Colosseum is called that because of the Colosus that used to stand next to it but has been destroyed to this day. It was origionally named the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrvm Flavivm) after the Flavian emporers.
Rome was the first modern city to have reached a population of one million
The Ancient City of Rome was on the site of the present city of Rome, the capital of Italy.
Slaves in Ancient Rome made up to 40% of the population.
rome was once the major center of western civiliztion.
Ancient Rome had a great road sytem =]
Historically the urban limits of Rome were considered to be the area within the city walls. Originally these were the Servian Wall which was built twelve years after Gauls' sack of the city in 390 BC. This contained most of the Esquiline and Caelian hills, as well as the whole of the other five. Rome grew out of the Servian Wall, but no more walls were constructed until almost 700 years later, when in 270 AD Emprior Aurelian began building the Aurelian Walls. These were almost 19 kilometres (12 mi) long, and were still the walls the troops of the Kingdom of Italy had to breach to enter the city in 1870. Modern Romans frequently consider the city's urban area to be delimited by its ring-road, the Grande Raccordo Anulare, which circles the city-centre at a distance of about 10km.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome
There are tens of thousands of illegal migrants living in Rome.
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According to a legend, the city of Rome was founded by twins, Romulus and Remus. Their father was Mars, the god of war, and their mother was a Latin princess.
Rom or (plural Roma) means married man or husband.
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