# Palatine Hill

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Palatine Hill rises in Rome, Italy, as an archaeological landscape of walls, foundations, palace ruins, and views across the ancient city. It forms the central hill among Rome’s seven hills. Simple huts, imperial buildings, and surviving gardens share the broad hillside, where the layers of Rome’s past remain visible.

Excavations trace habitation here to the early first millennium BC. They also reveal simple huts, some perhaps connected with funerary practices, linking the hillside to Rome’s beginnings. Roman tradition places Romulus’s foundation of Rome here. The legend says a she-wolf kept Romulus and Remus alive before Romulus chose this hill and killed his brother. Imperial rule later reshaped these slopes and buildings. Augustus built a palace and a temple to Apollo, while remains also recall the palaces of Tiberius and Domitian. A fire later destroyed Nero’s palace here. The Domus Aurea followed, before Domitian’s palace rose above part of that earlier complex.

Farnese gardens appeared here in the sixteenth century. A later villa became a neo-Gothic building, and part of it now houses the Palatine Museum. The museum preserves excavation finds from this hill and other ancient Italian sites. The simplest foundations remain the closest material trace of its earliest inhabitants.

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## Photos

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