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Quirinal

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Quirinal (kwĭr`ĭnəl), one of the seven hills of Rome, NE of Capitoline Hill. It was the site of several ancient shrines and the quarter of the quirites, probably the aristocracy in the first centuries of Roman history. In the 16th cent. a papal palace was built there; known as Quirinal palace, it was the residence of the kings of Italy from 1870 to 1946 and is now the home of the president of Italy.

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Q is for Quirinal Hill: One of the prettiest and most active of Rome's original seven hills, the Quirinal district is best known to locals as the location of the presidential palace.
Verbal inscriptions are relatively few and terse, the most fulsome resembling that on a drawing of the entablature of the Temple of Serapis on the Quirinal identifying the source of the fragment ("palazo di nerone"), the location of the find, and its relation to other fragments.
 
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