Sheraton Rome Parco de’ Medici Hotel

FIERA ROMA was inaugurated in April 2006, and it represents one of the largest and most prestigious exhibition pole in Europe. It is a great architectural work, designed by architect Tommaso Valle, and it is an excellent futuristic business and liaison hub. Rome is a world renowned tourist destination, as well as a very important business centre strategically placed in the middle of economic flows between the north and south of Italy and Europe.

Euroma 2 is a commercial architectural complex located in Rome in the area between Pacific Avenue, via Cristoforo Colombo and tenth Street, named Carroll. It is the largest Mall in Rome, having bested the previous record of shopping mall "Porta di Roma", and of Europe.

The ancient Roman city of Ostia was in antiquity situated at the mouth of the river Tiber, some 30 kilometres to the west of Rome. The shoreline moved seawards, due to silting, from the Middle Ages until the 19th century. Therefore Ostia is today still lying next to the Tiber, but at a distance of some three kilometers from the beach. Ostia is Latin for "mouth", the mouth of the Tiber. The river was used as harbour, but in the Imperial period two harbour basins were added to the north, near Leonardo da Vinci airport. The harbour district was called Portus, Latin for "harbour".

Built by Emperor Claudio to the amplification of Roma Caput Mundi, Fiumicino is the most port of Rome. Nowadays, even if it is the most important port of fisher boats ,pleasant boats and point from where it is possible to visit all the zone around, there are calls for the ferry boat to the Ponza Islands, Flegree and the Gulf of Aranci, thanks to the speedy mean from the Tirrenia company navigation system. In addition to the traffic passengers, in the port of Fiumicino there is the loaded in bulk movement and petrol products, as you can see the close connection with the petrol platform that supply the oil-refinery surrounded

Fashion District, Italy's largest shopping project, has created a network of 3 Factory Outlet Centers across the territory, in 3 strategic locations in terms of population density, stopping-off place and tourist attractions. Our projects are designed in full respect for the territory, paying special attention to the geographical location and the local traditions. From an architectural standpoint, Fashion District creates an environment that replicates the atmosphere of a small town centre.

The port of Civitavecchia was found by Traiano Emperor as Rome gate and it represented for several centuries the mainly point for exchange and contacts between people of ancient "Mare Nostrum". Nowadays, Civitavecchia keeps this high position, putting at the centre of a modern and efficient railway system, by motorway and by airport that links the capital city and the centre of Italy to the rest of the world. The port of Civitavecchia, thanks to the new plan of the harbour the commercial traffic gets the 2 millions tons of goods. It is also a strategic gate to the access of the most important tourist Italian zone and to the great tour of Mediterranean cruising lines. The increment of traffic passengers it will be available by a far-sighted policy, with the institution, in the 1991, of Co-ordination of Tyrrhenian Middle that tends to costing trade (short sea shipping) between Civitavecchia and the port of Sardinia (Olbia-Golfo Aranci, Cagliari and Porto Torres).Civitavecchia is also the leader call of cruising traffic. The work for the powering of the docks and of the meeting structures, gave the possibility to register an enormous increment of cruise ships, from 50 ships of 1996 to 500 ships of 2003. Civitavecchia tries to become the most important cruising port of Mediterranean.

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The Vatican Museums originated as a group of sculptures collected by Pope Julius II (1503-1513) and placed in what today is the “Cortile Ottagono” within the museum complex. The Vatican Historical Museum, founded in 1973 and transferred in 1987 to the Papal Apartment in the Lateran Palace, houses a series of papal portraits along with objects of the past Pontifical Military Corps and of the Pontifical Chapel and Family and historic ceremonial objects no longer in use. The Carriage and Automobile Museum is a section of the Vatican Historical Museum. In the year 2000, the Vatican Museums opened a new large entrance that provides visitor information and other services; on display are many new artworks, two of which were specially created for this grand entrance hall.