The Capitoline Hill, between the
Forum and the
Campus Martius, is one of the most famous and highest of the
seven hills of
Rome. By the 16th century, Capitolino had become Campidoglio in the
Roman dialect. In modern
Italian, campidoglio also refers to any capitol building. Similarly, the English word capitol derives from Capitoline. The Capitoline contains relatively few ancient ground-level ruins, as they are almost entirely covered up by Medieval
palaces (now the
Capitoline Museums) that surround a
piazza. A significant portion of the architecture in this area were designed by
Michelangelo.
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