Show hut in which romulus and remus were suckled by she wolf still standing there is one little spot in rome that is missed by the hundreds of thousands of visitors who go each year to the eternal city usually when a foreigner thinks of rome he thinks in terms of the colosseum the forum or the pantheon writes andre in the richmond times dispatch it if he is an artist his desire is to see the sistine chapel and michael angelos last judgment or perhaps rooms if he is an architect he will want to visit st peters basilica and study berginis Ber ninis colonnade or muse over the immense and inexplicable arches of the baths of Ca if he is a politician he will try to pull enough strings to arrange an interview with mussolini if he is a catholic he will want to see the holy father and receive his blessing so perhaps that is the reason so very few ever locate this gem the house where romulus and remus the founders of rome billowed pillowed pill pilloN owed ved their baby heads in the furry side of the she wolf remember the story of how the two little waifs waife were found by the wolf on the banks of the tawny tiber and how the savage beast her motherly instincts aroused carried the foundlings to her lair there she suckled them and nursed them through the weakness of infancy to sturdy childhood when the two could feed for themselves so the legend has it the noble creature took herself off to a secluded spot and there let her animal soul speed on its way in peace then the two youths went forth into the tribes that inhabited the sabine hills and there they bartered for wives upon their return they set about the business of founding a new race and a new city after having divided their tiny domain |