templum (an inaugurated space). Some of them where also called curiae, as was the senate itself by metonymy.

Senate houses in the forum

The most well known of the senate houses are those which were erected in the Roman Forum. The first known is the curia Hostilia which was the original senate house. According to Varro it was built by Tullus Hostilius, but it likely at

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