Capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.
1All other triumphs signified nothing till Rome was the acknowledged capital of Italy.
2And she, too, replied to Napoleon: Rome capital of Italy, or no alliance.
3Umbria is the slow food, slow travel capital of Italy.
4Florence was to replace Turin as the capital of Italy.
5Then the Italians came in and took it and made it the capital of Italy-so?
6He proceeded to lay down as an irrefragable fact that Rome must become the capital of Italy.
7Then it was called back to defend France against the Prussians, and Rome became the capital of Italy.
8Viva Rome, the capital of Italy!
9And only one thing seemed positive-thatthe majority was certainly in favour of Rome remaining the capital of Italy.
10In 1870 the king entered Rome and early the next year proclaimed the city to be the capital of Italy.
11Florence became the capital of Italy in 1865, on the day of the sixth anniversary of the birth of Dante.
12Forget Florence, try Bologna instead Smaller, less busy and regarded as the gourmet capital of Italy (which is saying something!
13Florence is a very ancient, large, and celebrated city, the capital of Italy; Lucca, formerly a republic, belongs now to the kingdom of Italy.
14None of them will acknowledge the superiority of the other, and yet Rome is, from the recollections connected with it, the natural capital of Italy.
15La Tinti had made her debut the year before, and had enchanted the three most fastidious capitals of Italy.
16In Italy the same is true; Milan and Turin, where the Saxon and the Gaul predominate, are the real capitals of Italy.
Translations for capital of Italy