International Conference on Metabolic Syndromes October 17-18, 2016 Rome, Italy

About City

<div style="text-align:justify"> <p><b>Rome</b>&nbsp;is the capital of Italy; it is also the country&rsquo;s largest and most populated comune and fourth-most populous city&nbsp;in the European Union. The Metropolitan City of Rome has a population of 4.3 million residents. The city is located in the&nbsp;central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of Tiber River. Vatican City is an&nbsp;independent country within the city boundaries of Rome, the only existing example of a country within a city: for this reason&nbsp;Rome has been often defined as capital of two states. Roman mythology dates the founding of Rome at only around 753 BC;&nbsp;the site has been inhabited for much longer, making it one of the oldest continuously occupied cities in Europe. It is referred&nbsp;to as &ldquo;Roma Aeterna&rdquo; (The Eternal City) and &ldquo;Caput Mundi&rdquo; (Capital of the World), two central notions in ancient Roman&nbsp;culture. One of the most important city, Rome, was founded in 753 B.C. by Romulus.</p> <p>The Apennine Mountains form its &ldquo;backbone&rdquo; and stretch from north to south, with the Tiber River cutting through&nbsp;them in central Italy. Along the northern border, the Alps serve as a natural boundary. The three major bodies of water&nbsp;surrounding Italy are the Adriatic Sea, the Ionian Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea. Ancient Rome is characterized by the&nbsp;seven hills and the Tiber River. The Tiber River flows from the Apennine Mountain, to the Tyrrhenian Sea.</p> <p>Rome is a sprawling, cosmopolitan city with nearly 3,000 years of globally influential art, architecture and culture on&nbsp;display. In 2005, the city received 19.5 million global visitors, up of 22.1% from 2001. Rome ranked in 2014 as the 14thmos-visited city in the world, 3rd most visited in the European Union, and the most popular tourist attraction in Italy. Its&nbsp;historic center is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. Monuments and museums such as the Vatican Museums and&nbsp;the Colosseum are among the world&rsquo;s most visited tourist destinations with both locations receiving millions of tourists a&nbsp;year. Rome hosted the 1960 Summer Olympics and is the seat of United Nations&rsquo; Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).Rome is the city with the most monuments in the world.</p> <p>The weather is fantastic in Rome in June, when the average temperature starts off at around 20&deg;C and gradually climbs&nbsp;up to 23&deg;C-24&deg;C as the month progresses.</p> <p>Italy has a large and international network of public and state affiliated&nbsp;universities&nbsp;and schools offering degrees in higher education. State-run universities of Italy constitute the main percentage of tertiary education in Italy, and are managed under the supervision of Italian&#39;s Ministry of Education.&nbsp;Italian universities are among the oldest universities in the world. In particular the&nbsp;University of Bologna&nbsp;(founded in 1088) and the&nbsp;University of Padua, founded in 1222, are the oldest state universities in Europe.&nbsp;According to the City Brands Index, Rome is considered the world&rsquo;s second most historically, educationally&nbsp;and culturally interesting and beautiful city.</p> <p>ASSOFOODTEC (Incorporating UCMA) the Italian Association of Machinery and Plant Manufacturers for Food Production, Processing and Preservation has leveraged the Italian spirit of innovation into a global leadership position.&nbsp;Italy Packaging Association, FIABE - Food and Beverage Export Association of Italy are among the leading Food &amp; Beverage Packaging associations in Italy.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Attractions & Landmarks

• The Roman Coliseum.
• Trevi Fountain.
• St. Peter Basilica.
• Roman Forum.
• Circus Maximus.
• The Vatican Museums.
• The Capitol.
• The Pantheon: temple of Roman Gods.
• Castel St. Angelo: The Hadrians Mausoleum.
• Villa Borghese gardens.
• Baths of Caracalla.