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CAPITOL

The temple of Jupiter on the Capitol, the meets in the Renaissance splendor of
southern summit of the Capitoline hill, Palazzo Senatorio. The Capitol also serves
was the center of the Roman world. Reached as Rome’s Registry Office. Rome’s position
by a zigzag path up from the Forum, the as a modern capital is forcefully expressed
temple was the scene of all the most sacred in the enormous Victor Emmanuel
religious and political ceremonies. The hill Monument, which unfortunately blots out
and its temple came to symbolize Rome’s the view of the Capitol from Piazza Venezia.
authority as caput mundi, head of the world, The present arrangement on the hill dates
and the Capitol gave its name to the seat from the 16th century, when Michelangelo
of the US Congress. Throughout the city’s created a beautiful piazza reached by a long
history, the Capitol (Campidoglio) has flight of steps, the Cordonata. Two of the
remained the seat of municipal govern ment. buildings around the piazza now house
Today’s city council, the Comune di Roma, the Capitoline Museums.

Sights at a Glance
Churches and Temples VIA C. BATTISTI
7 Santa Maria in Aracoeli V IA S. EUFEM I A
8 Temple of Jupiter V. D E L P L E B I S C I T O PIAZZA V I A D . F O R N A R I
w San Marco VENEZIA
Museums and Galleries
1 Capitoline Museums: Palazzo
Nuovo pp70–71 V I A D E G L I A S TA L L I F O R O T R A I A N O
2 Capitoline Museums: Palazzo PIAZZA SAN
dei Conservatori pp72–3 MARCO
q Palazzo Venezia and Museum
Historic Buildings V I A S . M A R C O V I A DEI FO R I I M P E R I A L I
5 Roman Insula
Historic Streets and Piazzas
3 Piazza del Campidoglio V I A S . V E N A N Z I O C A R C E R E
4 Cordonata
6 Aracoeli Staircase I N
Ancient Sites PIAZZA P I E T R O
9 Tarpeian Rock D’ARACOELI
S .
Monuments D I
0 Victor Emmanuel Monument CORDONATA V I A
PIAZZA DEL
V I A D E L T E AT R O D I M A R C E L L O V I A D I V I LLA CA F FA R E L L I VIA DEL TEMPIO GIOVE VIA DI MO NTE TAR P EO
CAMPIDOGLIO
PIAZZALE
CAFFARELLI

DI

0 meters 100 V I C O J U G A R I O V I A D . C O N S O L A Z I O N E
0 yards 100

See also Street Finder maps
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The God of the Nile River in front of the Palazzo Senatorio, Piazza del Campidoglio

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