Carricini, Samnites, Romans
Before Rome
An Italic sanctuary on a plateau at 1,165 metres, which became a Roman municipium and then a Cistercian monastery. With everything that was there before.
- 5 km
- Half a day
- Easy
- 4 stops
The Carricini tribe had no outlet to the sea and was the smallest of them all. Its most important sanctuary, Iuvanum, stood where the drove roads heading for upper Molise came together: not only a place of worship, but a trading centre for the peoples of the transhumance.
5 km in all between the first stop and the last, by car, with stops on foot. Approximate distance.
The stops
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The archaeological park of Iuvanum
Montenerodomo
The sanctuary, the two temples, the theatre built in the Greek manner, the forum with its basilica.
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Iuvanum Archaeological Museum
Montenerodomo
Four sections, from the Neolithic to the imperial age. Do not miss the harness in bronze and silver.
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Museum of the History and Transformation of the Landscape
Montenerodomo and more than 16 municipalities
On the ground floor of the same building: the first landscape museum in Abruzzo, with fourteen itineraries out in the countryside.
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Torricella Peligna
Torricella Peligna
This is where the Italic warrior's grave goods come from: helmet, cardiophylax, dagger, spiral armlet.
The stops in detail
4 places
Archaeology
The archaeological park of Iuvanum
At 1,165 metres, on a plateau that in winter is all wind: an Italic sanctuary, a theatre, a Roman forum and then a Cistercian monastery.
Montenerodomo
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Museums
Iuvanum Archaeological Museum
Four sections, from the Neolithic to the imperial age. Among the pieces, the bronze and silver harness of an eques's horse.
Montenerodomo
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Museums
Museum of the History and Transformation of the Landscape
The first landscape museum in Abruzzo: one exhibition building and fourteen waymarked itineraries out in the countryside. The museum is the valley itself.
Montenerodomo and more than 16 municipalities
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Architecture
Torricella Peligna
Nine hundred metres up, the Carricini tribe, a man mummified in the 17th century and the birthplace of the man who founded the Brigata Majella.
Torricella Peligna
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