Not far from Sulmona (AQ) on the slopes of Mount Morrone, just below the hermitage of Pope Celestine V, is the great sanctuary dedicated to Hercules Curino. It is a confederal sanctuary to which all the inhabitants of the area referred (Italic phase IV-III century B.C.) and monumentalized after the social war.
The monument consists of two terraces of different periods. A staircase with two flights of steps gives access to the upper terrace, the oldest, at the centre of which is the sacellum which preserves part of the rich wall decoration. The floor is covered by a polychrome mosaic. On the second ramp there is the fountain, which took water from a spring upstream, and the donarium, a hollow stone block in the middle and originally closed by a lid.
Of great archaeological interest is the bronze statue of Hercules at rest (exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum Villa Frigerj in Chieti) found inside the sacellum.
