Editing Seven hills of Rome (section)

==History==
[[Tradition]] holds that [[Romulus and Remus]] founded the original city on the Palatine Hill on 21 April 753 BC, and that the seven hills were first occupied by small settlements that were not grouped. The seven hills' denizens began to interact, which began to bond the groups. The city of Rome, thus, came into being as these separate settlements acted as a group, draining the marshy valleys between them and turning them into markets (''[[Forum (Roman)|fora]]'' in Latin). Later, in the early 4th century BC, the [[Servian Walls]] were constructed to protect the seven hills.<ref>[http://www.italymagazine.com/dual-language/seven-hills-rome "The Seven Hills of Rome", ''Italy Magazine''] ''italymagazine.com'', accessed 14 February 2019</ref>

In modern Rome, five of the seven hills—the Aventine, Caelian, Esquiline, Quirinal, and Viminal Hills—are now the sites of monuments, buildings, and parks. The Capitoline Hill is the location of Rome's city hall, and the Palatine Hill is part of the main archaeological area.

A smaller area was covered by the seven peaks associated with the festival of the [[Septimontium]]: the Cispian Hill (''Cispius Mons''), [[Oppian Hill]] (''Oppius Mons''), and Fagutal Hill (''Fagutalis Mons''), three spurs of the Esquiline Hill, along with the Palatium and Cermalus, the peaks of the Palatine Hill, the [[Velian Hill]], a ridge joining the Palatine and Oppian Hills, and the Caelian Hill.

===Other cities with seven hills===
{{Main|List of cities claimed to be built on seven hills}}
[[Sheffield]], [[Istanbul]], [[Lisbon]], [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]] and the [[Massachusetts]] cities of [[Worcester, Massachusetts|Worcester]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=Barnes|first=George|title=Like Rome, Worcester has its 7 hills|url=https://www.telegram.com/news/20170815/like-rome-worcester-has-its-7-hills|access-date=9 February 2021|website=telegram.com|language=en}}</ref> [[Somerville, Massachusetts|Somerville]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Hills of Somerville, Mass.|url=https://bostonbasinhills.org/pages/somerville-hills.html|access-date=23 October 2020}}</ref> and [[Newton, Massachusetts|Newton]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Smith|first=Samuel Francis|url=http://archive.org/details/historyofnewtonm1880smit|title=History of Newton, Massachusetts : town and city, from its earliest settlement to the present time, 1630-1880|date=1880|publisher=Boston : American Logotype Co.|others=UMass Amherst Libraries}}</ref> are also said to have been built on seven hills,<ref>{{Cite web |title=İstanbul'un 7 (Yedi) Tepesi |url=https://istanbul.ktb.gov.tr/TR-276823/istanbul39un-7-yedi-tepesi.html |access-date=2023-07-30 |website=istanbul.ktb.gov.tr}}</ref> following the example of Rome.