Palatino
With a past that pre-dates the city itself, Rome’s Palatine Hill holds an important place in the history of the Eternal City.
The Palatine Hill is is the centermost of the famous seven hills of Rome and the Roman mythology indicates it as the location of the Lupercan Cave where the twins Remus and Romulus were found by the she-wolf that raised them.
According to the myth the Palatine Hill is also the original place where the city of Rome was founded in 753 BC. In Imperial Rome this place full of history was the Headquarter of Roman aristocracy and the entire hill was covered with palaces (the emperors Augustus, Cicero, and Marcus Antonius all had homes on the hill).
The heart of the Palatine Hill was formed by Domitian's palace, the largest of Rome's palaces for three centuries. The palace consisted of two wings, a private one (the Domus Augustana) and a public one (the Domus Flavia).
