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Sanctuario di Ercole Curino

TIME : 2016/2/18 21:14:57

Sitting below the Sant’Onofrio hermitage, this sanctuary was originally thought to be the erstwhile house of Sulmona-born poet Ovid when it was first uncovered in the 1950s, but statues later found confirmed it as a Roman-era shrine to Hercules. The sanctuary's former foundations cover a couple of mountainside terraces. There's also a preserved mosaic floor sheltered in a wooden hut.