Velabrum
In ancient times, Velabrum was the name of the originally swampy area in Rome , which lay between the western slope of the Palatine and the Capitol and extended to the Tiber .
In this swamp Faustulus is said to have found the abandoned boys Romulus and Remus . Their basket was driven along the Tiber by the current and held up in the Velabrum by the roots of a fig tree . This place is one of the most significant places of legends about the founding of Rome with a high symbolic content.
The construction of the Cloaca Maxima drained the Velabrum swamp, but was still threatened by the occasional flooding of the Tiber until the soil level was raised after the fire of Rome under Nero . The area was a lively district and served, among other things, as a food market.
Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 21 ″ N , 12 ° 28 ′ 55 ″ E