Shrine of Hercules Curinus

An Italic and later Roman sanctuary near Sulmona in the Abruzzo region of Italy, built on two terraces from different periods. The lower terrace features a 71 m long podium in opus caementicium housing 14 barrel-vaulted rooms, while the upper terrace was enclosed by a colonnaded portico with a bronze-plated altar. Expanded after the Social War in 89 BC into a grand terraced sanctuary comparable to Fortuna Primigenia at Palestrina. Key finds include two cult statues of Hercules (one bronze, one marble) and a column with 12 verses attributed to the poet Ovid, who was born in nearby Sulmo. The upper sanctuary was buried by a landslide around the 2nd century AD.