SEVEN HILLS OF ROME SETTE COLL D ROMA

SEVEN HILLS OF ROME SETTE COLLİ Dİ ROMA

�It is believed that Rome was founded on seven hills. �The seven hills of Rome are a collection situated to the east of the Tiber river and in the center of the city. �According to legends, it was founded by Romulus on the Palatium Hill, the original place of the city. �The hills names in ancient Rome; Cermalus, Cispius, Fagutal, Oppius, Palatium, Sucusa and Velia.

�Nowadays , The vatican hill, pincio hill and janiculum hill are not included in the seven hills which remaining in the city center. �In accordance with the myth of the founding of Rome, Constantinapole the capital of the eastern Roman Empire, was found on seven hills like rome too. �The seven hills are the borders that roma calls sacred and they give the name pomerium for this borders.

Palatine Hill

�It is one of the seven hills where Rome was founded. In Roman mythology, the baby Romulus and Rumus were suckled here by a female wolf, the shepherd faustulus and his wife, Acca Larentina, raised the children here, and when Romulus became an adult, he decided to establish Rome.

Aventine Hill

�It is said that the name of the hill comes from the birds which is ominous and come to do nest from tiber river. �It is known that Hercules took its name from this hill.

Capitoline Hill

Quirinale Hill

The hill, which is home to a village of the Sabini people, also contains a statue of the gods Quirinius, who gave the hill its name.

Celio Hill �it was a popular settlement where the rich lived in magnificent villas.

Esquiline Hill �The name comes from the word "aesculi" meaning Italian oak. After the construction of the Coliseum, the population of the hill increased rapidly.

Viminale Hill �It is the smallest of the seven hills. It has The Viminale theater opera and train station.

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