Palatine Hill, one of the Seven Hills of Rome, located between the Colosseum and the Circus Maximus; according to tradition the site of the earliest Roman settlement. On its northwest slope was the Lupercal, a cave in which Romulus and his twin brother, Remus, are said to have been suckled by a she-wolf. On this hill, according to legend, Romulus founded the city of Rome. During the Roman Republic, temples and some of the finest private houses in Rome stood on the Palatine, and under the empire, the hill became the site of imperial residences. Emperor Nero included the entire hill within the precincts of his Aurea Domus (Golden House), erected after the disastrous fire of ad64. From the time of Emperor Alexander Severus, the Palatine Hill ceased to be an imperial residence.
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