Rome has a growing

Rome has a growing stock of contemporary and modern art and architecture. The National Gallery of Modern Art has works by Balla, Morandi, Pirandello, Carrà, De Chirico, De Pisis, Guttuso, Fontana, Burri, Mastroianni, Turcato, Kandisky, Cézanne on permanent exhibition. 2010 sees the opening of Rome's newest arts foundation, a contemporary art and architecture gallery designed by acclaimed Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid. Known as Maxxi National Museum of XXIst century Art and Architecture it restores a dilapidated area with striking modern architecture. Maxxi [32] features a campus dedicated to culture, experimental research laboratories, international exchange and study and research. It is one of Rome's most ambitious modern architecture projects alongside Renzo Piano's Auditorium Parco della Musica [33] and Massimiliano Fuksas' Rome Convention Center, Centro Congressi Italia EUR, in the EUR district, due to open in 2011.[34] The Convention Center features a huge translucent container inside which is suspended a steel and teflon structure resembling a cloud and which contains meeting rooms and an auditorium with two piazzas open to the neighbourhood on either side.

Rome is the 3rd most visited city in the EU, after London and Paris, and receives an average of 7–10 million tourists a year, which sometimes doubles on holy years. The Colosseum (4 million tourists) and the Vatican Museums (4.2 million tourists) are the 39th and 37th (respectively) most visited places in the world, according to a recent study.[35]

Among its hundreds of churches, Rome contains the only four Major Basilicas of the Catholic Church: San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome's cathedral, San Pietro in Vaticano, San Paolo fuori le Mura, and Santa Maria Maggiore. Along with the minor basilica of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, those churches are the five Patriarchal Basilicas of the Pentarchy. finally, the five Basilicas, along with the two churches of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme and San Sebastiano fuori le Mura, constitute the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome.

The Bishop of Rome is the Pope.

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