id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6722 Capitoline Hill - Wikipedia .html text/html 5525 644 73 Buildings Capitoline Museums and Piazza del Campidoglio, Palazzo Senatorio, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Palazzo Nuovo, Tabularium, Aedes Tensarum The Capitoline Hill contains few ancient ground-level ruins, as they are almost entirely covered up by Medieval and Renaissance palazzi (now housing the Capitoline Museums) that surround a piazza, a significant urban plan designed by Michelangelo. Piazza del Campidoglio, on the top of Capitoline Hill, with the façade of Palazzo Senatorio This full half circle turn can also be seen as Michelangelo's desire to address the new, developing section of the city rather than the ancient ruins of the past.[13] An equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius was to stand in the middle of the piazza set in a paved oval field.[12] Michelangelo was required to provide a setting for the statue and to bring order to an irregular hilltop already encumbered by two crumbling medieval buildings set at an acute angle to one another.[14] The Palazzo del Senatore was to be restored with a double outer stairway, and the campanile moved to the center axis of the palazzo. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6722.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6722.txt