![]() ![]() And also next to the town is the location of the cruise ship docks. The modern name stems from the common fig plants among the various pools. ![]() North of the city at Ficoncella are the Terme Taurine baths frequented by Romans and still popular with the Civitavecchiesi. ![]() The upper part of the "maschio" tower, however, was designed by Michelangelo, whose name is generally applied to the fortress. The massive Forte Michelangelo was first commissioned from Donato Bramante by Pope Julius II, to defend the port of Rome. A sea port on the Tyrrhenian Sea, the name ''Civitavecchia'' means "ancient town". The modern city was built over a pre-existing Etruscan settlement. According to the 2001 census, the municipality of Thessaloniki had a population of 363,987, its Urban Area 800,764 and the Larger Urban Zone (LUZ) of Thessaloniki has an estimated 995,766 residents (2004).Ĭivitavecchia is a town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Rome in the central Italian region of Lazio. Its honorific title is (/search?q=sumproteuousa "Συμπρωτεύουσα") ((/search?q=symprot-vousa "Symprotévousa")), literally "(/search?q=co-capital "Co-capital")", a reference to its historical status as the (/search?q=sumbasileuousa "Συμβασιλεύουσα") ((/search?q=symvasil-vousa "Symvasilévousa")) or "co-reigning" city of the (/search?q=byzantine "Byzantine") Empire, alongside (/search?q=constantinople "Constantinople"). Thessaloniki, (/search?q=thessalonica "Thessalonica") or (/search?q=salonica "Salonica") is the second-largest city in (/search?q=greece "Greece") and the capital of the region of (/search?q=macedonia "Macedonia"). ![]()
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