Velabrum

Velabrum was in ancient times the name of the original marshy area in Rome, which lay between the western slope of the Palatine Hill and the Capitoline Hill and extending to the Tiber.

In this swamp Faustulus to have the suspended boys Romulus and Remus found. Your basket has been driven by the flow along the Tiber and stopped in Velabrum from the roots of a fig tree. This place is one of the most important places of the legends about the founding of Rome with a high symbolic content.

By construction of the Cloaca Maxima, the bottom of the Velabrum was drained, but still threatened by occasional flooding of the Tiber, to the ground level was set higher after the fire of Rome under Nero. The area was a bustling neighborhood and served as the market for food.

41.88916666666712.481944444444Koordinaten: 41 ° 53 ' 21 " N, 12 ° 28' 55" E

• Place of Roman mythology
• Rome ( Ancient City )
• Archaeological sites in Italy