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The Capitoline Museums, in the twin palaces of the Campidoglio (see page 50), have extensive collections of sculpture excavated from ancient Rome, particularly in the Palazzo Nuovo.
In the Palazzo dei Conservatori is the most celebrated piece, the superb Etruscan bronze Capitoline She-Wolf (Lupa Capitolina), symbol of the city.
Various legends were invented to account for them; for example, the name of the Capitoline Hill (from which capitol comes) was said to be derived from a human head ( caput ) found on it when the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus was being built.
Beside the Piazza Venezia, a steep staircase leads up to the austere 13th-century Santa Maria in Aracoeli, while another, more graceful and gradual, takes you up between the statues of Castor and Pollux to Michelangelo’s beautifully proportioned square of the Campidoglio (Capitoline Hill).
Proposals to demolish this street and restore the unity of the whole archaeological zone from the Capitoline Hill to the Colosseum are often in the news.