Tarpeian Rock Lookout

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Tarpeian Lookout is actually 2 lookouts. One facing south over the Jamison Valley and the other west. Park your car safely. At the apex of the bend, you will see the track heading toward the cliffs and the lookout.

Walk the vacant block beside the house and you'll find a track at the end of the block. Allow 20 minutes for the return trip. OR access it off the Prince Henry Cliff Walk. Tarpeian Rock Lookout was named after the rock in ancient Rome where traitors were punished. The lookout was officially created in 1933. Learn more about the original Tarpeian Rock. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpeian_Rock

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The Tarpeian Rock is a steep cliff of the southern summit of the Capitoline Hill, overlooking the Roman Forum in Ancient Rome. It was used during the Roman Republic as an execution site. To be hurled off the Tarpeian Rock was, from a certain perspective, a fate worse than mere death, because it carried with it the stigma of shame. The standard method of execution in ancient Rome was by strangulation in the Tullianum. The rock was reserved for the most notorious traitors and as a place of unofficial, extra-legal executions such as the near-execution of then-Senator Gaius Marcius Coriolanus by a mob whipped into frenzy by a tribune of the plebs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpeian_Rock