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Catholic pilgrimage sites

  • Vatican CityThe name Vatican first appeared in the time of the Roman Republic. It described a marshy area on the west bank of the Tiber River.
  • ParisJulius Caesar first mentioned the ancient oppidum that corresponds to modern Paris in the mid-1st century BC as Lutetia Parisiorum.
  • RomeArchaeological evidence places human presence in the Rome area approximately 14,000 years ago. Stone tools and pottery fragments found at the site attest to…