text: On one of the seven hills of ancient Rome , the fortress-like Palazzo del Quirinale , once summer residence to popes fleeing the malarial swamps of the Vatican down by the Tiber , housed the new king of Italy after 1870 , and since 1947 is the presidential palace .
  
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  The popes had the flee the malarial swamps of the Vatican so they would go to Rome .