ROME
Italy
One of 20 GPFL Host Cities
KEY STADIUM
Stadio Olimpico 70,634
POPULATION
Metro 4,298,000 (2022)
Urban 2,783,809 (2021)
Main Attractions
Colosseum, Trevi Fountain, Pantheon, St Peter’s Basilica, Roman Forum, Spanish Steps, Sistine Chapel, Castel Sant’Angelo
Other Sports Venues
Stadio del tennis Romano Tennis, Stadio Olimpico del Nuoto Swimming, PalaLottomatica Basketball
Most Visited City Ranking
14
World's Best City Ranking
7
Why did we choose Rome?
Football and Italy go hand in hand, with Milan, Turin and Naples equally feverish about the sport as the Italian capital. What the other cities don’t have, and Roma has in abundance, is a world class set of attractions. Those will bring people to Roma…and the GPFL will keep them there!
ROME
Rome is the capital city of Italy. It is also the capital of the Lazio region, the centre of the Metropolitan City of Rome, and a special comune named Comune di Roma Capitale.
Rome is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of the Tiber. Vatican City (the smallest country in the world) is an independent country inside the city boundaries, the only existing example of a country within a city.
It is often referred to as the City of Seven Hills due to its geographic location, and also as the “Eternal City, and is generally considered to be the “cradle of Western civilisation and Christian culture”, and the centre of the Catholic Church.
While Roman mythology dates the founding of Rome at around 753 BC, the site has been inhabited for much longer, making it a major human settlement for almost three millennia and one of the oldest continuously occupied cities in Europe.