In search of funders, the city has started partnering with prominent businesses on the projects, who can foot the bills for restorations. The fashion house Fendi, meanwhile, funded a clean-up of the Trevi Fountain, and the luxury brand Tods paid for half of the massive restoration of the Colosseum , which reopened in While the senate house experienced several fires and restorations over the generations, changing names depending on who paid to rebuild it, it was always in the same location.
But in 52 B. His rowdy followers decided to cremate his body in the senate house, burning it to the ground in the process. Caesar took on the task and expense of building a new senate house that he named, of course, after himself. After taking on the title of dictator and committing Rome to an expensive and many believed foolhardy plan to conquer the Parthian empire in the east, many senators believed killing Caesar was the only way to re-establish republican traditions and the rule of law.
That sentiment came to head in 44 B. He completed work on the Curia Julia and moved the senate back to its traditional home, though the legislative body was essentially just an imperial rubber stamp in the centuries that followed.
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