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For the Romans, the Palatine<\/strong> had always represented the city’s sacred birthplace<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

All ancient authors agree with the archaeological evidence that the hill, isolated from the others and in a position which dominated both the Tiber<\/strong>, right by the Tiber Island<\/strong>, and also the Forum Boarium marke<\/strong>t, was the site of the legendary ‘founding’ of Rome<\/strong> and the ‘square furrow’ ploughed by Romulus on 21 April of the year 754\/3 BC.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Legend apart, the hill has disclosed the remains of early bronze-age huts, providing incontrovertible evidence of the presence of an inhabited area in the very place to which ancient tradition ascribed the ‘casa Romuli<\/em>‘<\/strong>, ie the hut of the legendary founder<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This was certainly one and probably also the most important of the villages<\/strong> from which the city of Rome<\/strong> was to evolve over the course of time.<\/p>\n


\nPhoto credits by Eric<\/a> under CC-BY license.<\/p>\n

\u00a0In 44 BC Augustus<\/a><\/strong> too decided to transfer his home there. From then on almost all the emperors went to live on the Palatine<\/strong>, which was gradually transformed into a single, sumptuous royal residence<\/strong>, the archetypal ‘palace’, a term which derives from the name of the hill, the Palatium<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The first true imperial palace was the work of Tiberius, successor of Augustus<\/strong>. He was followed by Caligula<\/strong>, who extended the building as far as the edge of the cliff overlooking the forum, while Claudius and Nero<\/strong><\/a> (between 41 and 60 AD) built the so-called Domus Transitoria<\/strong>, which soon burnt down in the great Neronian fire of 64<\/strong> and was never rebuilt.<\/p>\n

It was Domitian<\/strong> who built a new palace on the ruins and, by occupying also the areas left free by his predecessors, created a new, more grandiose palace<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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How to get to the\u00a0Palatine<\/h2>\n
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The Palatine\u00a0is located here:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n