Rome
Rome, the capital of Italy and of the Lazio region, is a sprawling, cosmopolitan city with nearly 3,000 years of history to display. The power of the ancient Roman Empire can be transpired by the Colosseum and the Roman Forum. It is the fourth-most populous city in the European Union by population. The Vatican City, headquarter of the Roman Catholic Church, is an independent country inside Rome.
Museums and monuments such as the Colosseum and the Vatican Museum are among the most visited sites in the world with more than 4 millions of visitors annually. Tourism plays an important role in Rome, which ranks as the 3rd most visited city in the EU after Paris and London, and the 14th-most visited in the world. Its historic center is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The Colosseum stands as the largest amphitheater ever built in the Roman Empire and was used for gladiator fights, with a capacity to contain 60,000 spectators.
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Venice
Located in the northeastern part of Italy and on the northwestern end of the Adriatic Sea, Venice (Venezia), capital of the province of Venezia and the region of Veneto, is an island city situated across a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by 400 bridges. It is an urban network formed by more than 200 original canals that are linked together on either side of the S-shaped Grand Canal. Venice lies in a 32-mile long Lagoon and is recognized as part of the architectural and artistic patrimony of all humanity, a UNESCO Heritage Site. It is one of the world’s oldest tourist and cultural centers. Its framework of canals and narrow streets has prevented the intrusion of automobiles.
Venice is a great tourist destination for its celebrated art and architecture. In 2017, the number of tourists reached 60,000 per day and the annual estimate was between 22 million and 30 million. The ancient Carnival has been revived in the early 1980s and the Venice International Film Festival, part of the Biennale, an international gathering held every other year that includes art, architecture, film, dance, music, and theatre festivals, is held in the Lido every September. Films are shown throughout the city, attracting thousands of actors, critics, and other members of the motion picture industry.
The best-known form of transport that we can see on the waterways of Venice is called Gondola. Outnumbered today by other types of vessels, there are only a few hundred of those elegant boats that constitute a symbol of Venice. Any person who visits Venice will remember the romance of the Gondolas.
Filled with a large variety of boats, the canals of Venice build a colorful water scene of public water buses, vegetables and fruits carrying boats, ambulance and police boats, tourist boats, garbage transport boats etc. Free of automobiles that are banned from the city, Venice is a walking place. Any point can be reached by walking.
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Athens
Athens is the capital of Greece and the historical capital of Europe, with a long history dating from the first settlement in the Neolithic age and an unrivalled charm. It is the southernmost capital on the European mainland and also a huge cosmopolitan metropolis which dominates the Attica region and the economic, political, financial, industrial, maritime sectors of Greece. Athens is one of the world’s oldest cities with history spanning over 3,400 years and its earliest human presence starting somewhere between the 11th and the 7th millennium BC. It is also considered as the cradle of western civilization and the birthplace of democracy. It is still dominated by 5th-century BC landmarks, such as the Acropolis which is a hilltop citadel topped with ancient buildings.
The values and civilization of Athens acquired a universal significance. This city were occupied by many different conquerors who built splendid and unique monuments. It has today a 3-km pedestrian zone constructed in the historic center. About 300m away from the Acropolis is the impressive Acropolis Museum, made of steel, glass and concrete and hosting at least 4,000 finds from the Acropolis.
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