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The remains of the Iron Age settlements referable to the oldest nucleus of the city of Rome are preserved on the Palatine Hill. The hill was the seat of important city cults, including that of the Magna Mater (Cybele) and, between the second and first centuries BC, became the residential district of the Roman aristocracy, with elegant residences characterized by exceptional pictorial and floor decorations, such as those preserved in the Casa dei Grifi.
Augustus symbolically chose the hill as the place of his home, which consisted of several buildings, including the House of Livia.
Subsequently the hill became the seat of the imperial palaces: the Domus Tiberiana, the Domus Transitoria and then the Domus Aurea, and finally the Imperial Palace, divided into Domus Flavia, a representative building, and Domus Augustana, home of the emperor Domitian.
The presence of the imperial palaces on the hill gave rise to a process of identification so that the toponym Palatium has become synonymous with a residential building in modern languages.
