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Capitoline Hill

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The Capitoline Museums, also on the Capitoline Hill.

The Capitoline offer a couple of museums replete with extraordinary sculptures including giant body parts, a porky Venus, a young and effete Hercules, Medusa and her snake hair, an Etruscan bronze of the she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus [the founders of Rome], varied centaurs, kids playing with snakes and much more, but also some fine Renaissance paintings.
Apart from the terrific art and historic, central location the museums are cool and uncrowded, an excellent place to chill, literally and metaphorically.