Civita di Bagno is a small settlement with a long, layered history, its origins reaching back to the Roman Late Republican period. The modern town preserves several key monuments, including a podium temple, likely of the late second century BCE, identified by a Tiberian inscription as a sanctuary of the goddess Feronia. Beneath Palazzo Oliva lie the remains of a bath complex, while the medieval cathedral of San Massimo reuses a great deal of ancient material. Funerary remains line the old road network. On the neighbouring Moritola hill, a vast system of terracing, first constructed in the second century BCE, supported an enigmatic monumental complex with sophisticated hydraulic infrastructure. Over centuries it was repeatedly modified; by the fifth century CE, two kilns and a limekiln had been installed. By the sixth century, Civita di Bagno had become a bishop’s seat.
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