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 brought to light an interesting monumental complex that attests to the presence of a settlement from the Late Republican Age. Epigraphic data and the artifacts uncovered help provide a complete picture of the area. Indeed, numerous archaeological testimonies were already known in the inhabited center, as among the more recent buildings, sections of walls stood out and still stand, the Roman structures underlying the ancient Cathedral of San Massimo, the remains of a thermal complex that have been incorporated into the foundations of the sixteenth-century building of Villa Oliva, the temple dedicated to Feronia, discovered and reburied in the seventies, as well as numerous funerary and dedicatory inscriptions, confirming the existence of a Roman age settlement.