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The Quirinal Hill ((ラテン語:Collis Quirinalis); (イタリア語:Quirinale) (:kwiriˈnaːle)) is one of the Seven Hills of Rome, at the north-east of the city center. It is the location of the official residence of the Italian Head of State, who resides in the Quirinal Palace; by metonymy "the Quirinal" has come to stand for the Italian President. The Quirinal Palace has an extension of 1.2 million square feet. == History == It was originally part of a group of hills that included ''Collis Latiaris'', ''Mucialis'' (or ''Sanqualis''), ''Salutaris''. These are now lost due to building in the 16th century and later.〔(Miriam Ilani – Quirinal Hill )〕 According to Roman legend, the Quirinal Hill was the site of a small village of the Sabines, and king Titus Tatius would have lived there after the peace between Romans and Sabines. These Sabines had erected altars in the honour of their god ''Quirinus'' (naming the hill by this god). Tombs from the 8th century BC to the 7th century BC that confirm a likely presence of a Sabine settlement area have been discovered; on the hill, there was the tomb of Quirinus, which Lucius Papirius Cursor transformed into a temple for his triumph after the third Samnite war. Some authors consider it possible that the cult of the ''Capitoline Triad'' (Jove, Minerva, Juno) could have been celebrated here well before it became associated with the Capitoline Hill. The sanctuary of Flora, an Osco-Sabine goddess, was here too.〔(JSTOR ) – Women on th Quirinal Hill: Patronage in Rome, 1560 – 1630 by ''Carolyn Valone''〕 According to Livy, the hill first became part of the city of Rome, along with the Viminal Hill, during the reign of Servius Tullius, Rome' sixth king, in the 6th century BC.〔Livy, Ab urbe condita, 1.44〕 In 446 BC, a temple was dedicated on the Quirinal in honour of ''Semo Sancus Dius Fidius,'' and it is possible that this temple was erected over the ruins of another temple. Augustus, too, ordered the building of a temple, dedicated to Mars. On a slope of the Quirinal were the extensive gardens of Sallust. On the Quirinal Hill Constantine ordered the erection of his baths, the last ''thermae'' complex erected in imperial Rome. These are now lost, having been incorporated into Renaissance Rome, with only some drawings from the 16th century remaining. In the Middle Ages, the ''Torre delle Milizie'' and the convent of St. Peter and Domenic were built, and above Constantine's building was erected the Palazzo Rospigliosi; the two famous colossal marble statues of the "Horse Tamers", generally identified as the Dioscuri with horses, which now are in the Piazza Quirinale, were originally in this Palazzo. They gave to the Quirinal its medieval name Monte Cavallo, which lingered into the 19th century, when the hill was transformed beyond all recognition by urbanization of an expanding capital of a united Italy. In the same palazzo were also the two statues of river gods that Michelangelo moved to the steps of Palazzo Senatorio on the Capitoline Hill. According to the political division of the center of Rome, the Hill belongs to the rione Trevi. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Quirinal Hill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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