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View of the Palatine Hill from across the Circus Maximus A schematic map of Rome showing the seven hills and the Servian Wall. The Palatine Hill (/ ˈ p æ l ə t aɪ n /; Classical Latin: Palatium; [1] Neo-Latin: Collis/Mons Palatinus; Italian: Palatino [palaˈtiːno]), which relative to the seven hills of Rome is the centremost, is one of the most ancient parts of the city; it has been ...
Rodolfo Lanciani razed the Farnese building in 1882 to allow a connection between the Roman Forum and the Palatine Hill. At that time, Gherardo Ghirardini (1854–1920) cataloged its holdings and transferred them to the Museum of the Baths of Diocletian (which became the National Roman Museum in 1889). The Palatine Museum in 1987
Santa Maria Antiqua (English: Ancient Church of Saint Mary) is a Catholic Marian church in Rome, Italy, built in the 5th century in the Forum Romanum, and for a long time the monumental access to the Palatine imperial palaces. Located at the foot of the Palatine Hill, Santa Maria Antiqua is the oldest Christian monument in the Roman Forum.
An ancient Roman imperial palazzo atop the city's Palatine Hill was reopened to tourists on Thursday, nearly 50 years after its closure for restoration. The nearly 2,000-year-old Domus Tiberiana ...
The Celian Hill from the Palatine is an 1823 landscape painting by the British artist Charles Lock Eastlake. [1] It depicts a scene of the Celian Hill in Rome as viewed from the Palatine Hill , notable for the ancient walls and Renaissance churches .
It has been speculated that a tugurium Faustini ("the cottage of Faustinus") on the Palatine recorded in the time of the emperor Constantine I (ruled AD 312–337) was in reality the still surviving casa Romuli. [7] A second casa Romuli is recorded in the classical sources, on the Capitoline Hill, likely a replica of the original. It is last ...
A 16th-century imagining of Romulus and Remus building Rome's walls. The Murus Romuli as remembered by ancient historians is described by Rodolfo Lanciani: . The text most frequently quoted in reference to the Murus Romuli is that of Tacitus, according to which the furrow ploughed by the hero — the sulcus primigenius — started from a point in the Forum Boarium, marked in later times by the ...
Estimated to be around 2,300-years-old, the work is part of a larger aristocratic mansion located near the Roman Forum, which has been under excavation since 2018.