making it the oldest building in Rome. Archaic Rome, the Rome of Romulus and his six legendary successors to the Roman monarchy, is said to be founded in 753 BCE. The Capitoline Hill was an ...

This January 2025 photo shows scaffolding surrounding monuments and buildings under renovation on Capitoline Hill, or the Capitoleum, in Rome. (Cain Burdeau/Courthouse News Service) The mayor's office ...

Pope Francis gazed over the ancient ruins of the Roman Forum during a visit to Rome’s historic Capitoline Hill on Monday in which he reflected on how the “Rome of the Caesars’” transformed ...

“Seeing Constantine, on top of the Capitoline Hill, looking out at the whole of Rome, he feels extraordinary ... in the ruins of a building not far from the Colosseum. They were transferred ...

There, at the top of the Capitoline Hill in Rome, three magnificent palaces occupy ... and the Palazzo Nuovo (New Palace). The latter two buildings, connected by an underground passage, house ...

Sacred geese lived in the goddess Juno’s temple on Capitoline Hill during the Roman Republic ... looted what they could but did not demolish buildings or set fire to the city.

Massimo Siragusa / Constrasto / Redux Climbing the Campidoglio, or Capitoline Hill ... set the building afire in effigy; other Meier critics have lamented the “Los Angelization of Rome.” ...

We go around it, but in the end, we never actually climb the Capitoline Hill. On Rome's birthday, we invite all Romans to reach the square and discover a place that belongs to them. This year ...

Before various civil and military officials, Pope Leo XIV emphasized the spiritual and social dimensions of his episcopal mission, before taking possession of St. John Lateran.