The area is nowadays not reachable by the tourist because of the lack of funds for a complete restoration, that is going on very slowly.
Prof. Patrizio Pensabene of the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, is the coordinator and chief of all the restoration works done in that area of the Palatine Hill; he is leading all the research projects done there and is doing that since 1977, with the help of many colleagues, students and fellows. The entire area is under the rule of Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma (P.zza S.Maria in Nova 53, CAP 00186, website: www.archeorm.arti.beniculturali.it/sar2000, e-mail: info@archeorm.arti.beniculturali.it)

In 2001 he participated to the redaction of a paper for UNESCO, where he exposes his projects for the restoration of the entire area (Giavarini C., Pensabene P., Sanatarelli M.L., Tomei M.A: "South-West substructions of the Palatine hill in Rome").

Introduction
The topography and architecture of the Palatine Hill in Rome are strictly connected with the birth of Rome and with the myths of its foundation. Therefore, this part of Rome became its most sacred and important site. Since the beginning of Roman history, impressive substruction walls were built in this side of the Palatine for two main purposes: the first was a structural one in order to reinforce the tuff base and create a series of terraces useful for the access to the site; the second purpose was ideological, to emphasize the monumental image of the hill, in the form of an acropolis dominating the city.
Various enlargements and restoration works took place in this part since the first centuries of the life of Rome: still now we can recognize a number of them. One enlargement of the upper area was due to the construction of two important temples dedicated to Victory and Cybele (Magna Mater), respectively in 294 and 204 b. C. The above mentioned substructions were afterwards integrated and completed with walls made in "opus caementicium".
However, religious exigencies suggested the widening of the areas facing the temples through the construction of other huge substructions on the south-west side of the Palatine. Such substructions were made in the form of valuted masonry halls superimposed in four floors; they were used as underground rooms and as a support for the road to the upper temples.
On the west part of the hill, massive constructions made of roman concrete were built. Such impressive substructions, which still support this historical and sacred area of the Palatine, need a complex and difficult restoration work.