The ancient town of Alba Fucens located at only 100 km from Rome, February, 2026

Alba Fucens, the (very) ancient Latin settlement, was founded in 303 B.C.  It's located only 100 km southeast of Rome.  

Little is left of the so-called “Pompeii of Abruzzi”, except for the small and lovely amphitheater which had been built in the 1^st  century A.D. (it's slightly smaller than the one in Pompeii where in the early 1970s Pink Floyd played their historic and epic behind-closed-doors concert).

Excavations in the area began in 1949 and went on for a further thirty years.   

 

With the decline of the Roman Empire the town was eventually abandoned around the 6^th century A.D.   In more modern times a devastating earthquake hit the nearby area in January,1915 and caused the death of 30,000 people, putting a definitive “nail in the coffin” to any further life-business activities.