Index:

The Cave of the Sybil

The Crypt

The walls of the acropolis

Temple of Apollo

Temple of Jupiter

Thermae of the Forum

Capitolium

Temple with arcade

Temple of the Giants

So called by the antiquaries of the past centuries, it was probably consecrated to Demetra and was built in the V century B.C. on the highest point of the acropolis.
Of the most ancient period they remain the tuffaceous blocks of the lower podium while the other visible structures concern the reconstruction started in Augustan or Juliae-Claudiae age.

Temple of Jupiter.

Turned into basilica and consecrated to St. Massimo, the temple gave hospitality to various sepulchres and remained open to cult till 1207, the year in which the city was destroyed.

The podium is about 40X25 metres; on it, it raised a perimtrical wall of reticulated work interrupted on the eastern side by three entrances which opened on the flight of steps of the prospect.

Temple of Jupiter. In the middle the baptismal bath.

In the middle of the podium we can see the ruins of the cell, whose internal walls were stressed by lateritious semi columns which surrounded some niches then occluded.

According to a recent reconstruction, it seems that the temple was pseudo-peripteral (with semi columns on two or three sides of the cell) and surrounded by arcades with pillars which divided it into five aisles.