Palatine Hill

Why go

The Palatine is the hill on which, according to Rome's official tourism site, the city was founded and archaeologists have found remains of Iron Age settlements. The same site says it was mainly a residential quarter of Rome's ruling class until the end of the Republic and then became the palace of the emperors, with buildings such as the House of Livia, the Domus Tiberiana and the Domus Flavia and Domus Augustana, so that its name came to mean 'palace'; the Farnese Gardens were laid out on it later. It is one archaeological area with the Roman Forum within the Parco archeologico del Colosseo, and Rome's tourism office says the same ticket does not let you enter that area a second time. The park's own website could not be opened for this record, so check entry rules with the park before you go. The map point is a point on the hill, not an entrance.