The Palatine Collis is a haven for the city's comfortably affluent, if not quite for the wealthiest the Urbs Roma has to offer. The homes here are elegant, with red-tiled roofs and white-washed walls, standing gracefully along the winding streets. Each home is fronted by modest gardens of laurel, rosemary and vibrant pomegranates — the touch of exoticness a constant reminder that this is a subtly higher class of citizen. Here, sculptors and artists are always in high demand, their ateliers scattered throughout the district, offering patrons glimpses of marble busts in progress or walls alight with fresh, wet plaster awaiting vibrant pigments. Many of the streets are lined with attractive murals of mythological scenes painted by the finest craftsmen, making culture as much a staple of everyday life as one's daily bread. In the late afternoons, the sounds of lyres and flutes drift through the air, creating an attractive harmony that punctuates life here with a constant melody.