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ROME: CITY OF ETERNITY traces the extraordinary story of the Eternal City from the settlements that arose beside the Tiber to the Rome of the modern age. Rome has been a kingdom, a republic, the heart of an empire, the center of Western Christianity, a Renaissance capital, and the stage upon which some of Europe's greatest political and cultural transformations unfolded. Journey through the age of Rome's kings, the rise and fall of the Republic, the triumphs and tragedies of the Roman Empire, the construction of the Colosseum, the transformation of Christian Rome, the struggles of the Middle Ages, the artistic brilliance of the Renaissance and Baroque eras, the unification of Italy, and the dramatic changes that shaped Rome in the twentieth century. Along the way, emperors, popes, soldiers, artists, revolutionaries, ordinary citizens, monuments, churches, ruins, and archaeological discoveries reveal how Rome continually reinvented itself while carrying the weight of its extraordinary past.