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During Fascism, many deputies of the opposition retired on this hill after the murder of Giacomo Matteotti, here ending - by the so-called "Aventinian secession" - their presence at the Parliament and consequently their political activity.

The hill is now an elegant residential part of Rome with a wealth of architectural interest.

See also

• Rome: Seven hills of Rome, Roman Forum, Circus Maximus, Club
• People: Ancus Marcius, Lucius Opimius, Marcus Fulvius Flaccus, Naevius, Pope Sixtus III
• Things: BacchanaliaThe Bacchanalia were wild and mystic festivals of the Roman god Bacchus. Introduced into Rome from lower Italy by way of Etruria (c. 200 BC), the bacchanalia were held in secret and attended by women only, on three days in the year in the grove of Simila, Chariot racingChariot racing was one of the most popular ancient Greek and Roman sports. Early chariot racing Achilles arranged the first documented chariot race for the funeral games of his friend Patroclus. It is unknown exactly where chariot racing began, but it may, Sacred fire of VestaThe Sacred fire of Vesta the Roman goddess of the hearth and goddess of fire, was an eternal flame which burned within the Temple of Vesta on the Roman Forum. According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, the Romans believed that the fire was closely tied to t
• MythologyThis article is about a system of myths. For the 1942 book Mythology see its author Edith Hamilton. A mythology is a relatively cohesive set of myths: stories that comprise a certain religion or belief system. What is mythology? Myths are generally storie: Roman mythologyRoman mythology can be considered as two parts. One part, largely later and literary, consists of whole-cloth borrowings from Greek mythology. The other, largely early and cultic, functioned in very different ways from its Greek counterpart. Nature of Ear, ArtemisThis article is about the Greek goddess. For other meanings of the term, see Artemis (disambiguation). Hellenistis marble sculpture (now at the Louvre Museum,seen here in a 19th century engraving In Greek mythology Artemis ("fashion") is the daughter of Z, Bona DeaIn Roman mythology, Bona Dea ("the good goddess") was a goddess of fertility, healing, virginity and women. She was a daughter of Faunus and was sometimes called Fauna. There was a temple to Bona Dea on the Aventine Hill. On December 4, secret rites in ho, CeresFor other uses, see Ceres (disambiguation). Ceres in Roman mythology, equivalent to the Greek Demeter (which see for more details), daughter of Saturn and Rhea, wife-sister of Jupiter, mother of Proserpina by Jupiter, sister of Juno, Vesta, Neptune and Pl, Cacus, Dionysus, Diana, Heracles, Mercury, Selene, Vertumnus