Archaeological Site Civitas Sancti Maximi, L’Aquila

In the Middle Valley of the Aterno River, near the hamlet of Civita di Bagno, is the archaeological site of the medieval Civitas Sancti Maximi, in Comitatu Furconensi. In recent years, numerous excavation campaigns have been carried out that have uncovered an interesting monumental complex confirming the presence of a settlement from the Late Republican Age. The epigraphic data and artifacts brought to light help provide a complete picture of the area. Indeed, numerous archaeological findings were already known within the inhabited center, as among the more recent buildings there stood and still stand sections of walls, the Roman structures beneath the ancient Cathedral of San Massimo, the remains of a thermal complex that have been incorporated into the foundations of the sixteenth-century Villa Oliva building, the temple dedicated to Feronia, discovered and reburied in the Seventies, as well as numerous funerary and dedicatory inscriptions that confirm the existence of a Roman-age inhabited center.