English B2 FCE

(0) BELIEVED (BELIEVE) or not, Rome's (1) ............ (POPULAR)  with tourists is not difficult to understand. It (2) ............ (PRIDE) boasts ancient history dating back more than two and a half thousand years, incredible architecture, museums, culture, and cuisine. That's why we can easily see why this city is visited by so many people from all over the world. In (3) ............ (ADD) , it is quite a big city, as it has the fourth biggest population in the European Union. For this reason, many tourists find themselves returning (4) ............ (REPEAT) to see what they weren't able to see the first time. While Roman mythology claims the city was (5) ............ (FOUND) around 753 BC, the site has actually been used by humans for much longer. This makes Rome one of the oldest continuously occupied locations in Europe. It has been a (6) ............ (KING), a republic, an empire, and then a republic again. It even houses the (7) ............ (BELIEVE) tiny independent country state of the Vatican City within its walls. This only serves to add to its significant cultural (8) ............ (IMPORTANT) and diversity.