The Palatine and Aventine Hills were the rival sites in the augury contest between Romulus and Remus. Romulus took auspices on the Palatine and prevailed, while Remus watched from the Aventine.
Evander, the Arcadian exile, established his settlement Pallanteum on the Palatine Hill before the Trojan War, giving the hill its name and making it the site of Rome's oldest mythological habitation.
The shepherd Faustulus discovered the infant twins being nursed by the she-wolf at the Lupercal on the Palatine Hill and raised them nearby, preserving Rome's future founders.
Romulus founded Rome on the Palatine Hill on April 21, 753 BCE, plowing a sacred furrow to mark the city's boundary. The hill where the she-wolf had nursed the twins became Rome's birthplace.
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