According to the myth, his name would come from "aves", the birds that Remo would have seen flying from this hill in the famous challenge with his brother Romolo. The southernmost, but surely even the most poetic of all seven hills on which Rome stands, it has been commended by D'Annunzio and Carducci’s verses. It is said that even Mazzini, to whom a monument is dedicated in Piazza Ugo La Malfa, overlooking the same point towards the city, was astonished in front of such magnificence.