Romulus and Remus

Left to drown at the edge of the flooding River Tiber, Romulus and Remus were found and raised by a she-wolf. As men, the brothers returned to the spot where they had been abandoned. There, they founded the city of Rome. The Romans celebrated the festival of Parilia, today called the Natalis Romae, or the birth of Rome, on April 21 to commemorate the day the brothers founded the city. Romulus and Remus