The House of Romulus, Livia, Augustus and the Lupercal
Historical Center
In the 1940, three houses from the Iron Age were found, which were connected to the legendary home of Romulus lived. Next door is the home of Livia, famous for its landscape frescoes in its Triclinium: the Mercurio Libera Io and the Polifemo of its Tablinum, replicas of grecian works from the fourth century A.D.. The identification of the house came about thanks to some plumbing with inscriptions of Julius Augustus. South of the house of Livia is a group of buildings constructed by Augustus in 36 A.D.as a residence. It consists of the main house, the Temple of Apollo, the covered walk and the Greek and Latin library.
THINGS TO KNOW: Curiosity: In 2007, 15 meters under the house of Augustus, a sanctuary-grotto was found which was linked to the legendary spot in which Romulus and Remus where weened by a wolf, for which the place was named the Lupercal. It is supposed that Augustus was responsible for transforming the place into holy ground.
