Alba Fucens

Alba Fucens, ancient city of the Equi, then conquered by the Romans, towered by Albe Castle.
Here we have the opportunity to confront the different way of conceiving the way of life between the ancient and medieval, the social fracture within the concept of a city, in which inhabitants are the owners and defenders of their own goods, and the feudal "battlement" where the area is dominated by a family on whose dependence work both those who cultivate the land and those who have the job of defending it.
Alba Fucens is a city of plains with three kilometers of city wall, which is still visible in part, and the four entries that form the cardo and decumanus streets typical of Roman colonies. Going around the town, the remains of the forum, portals, basilica, theater, the amphitheater carved into the rock are all still identifiable and interesting, placed among the walls of the houses.
Above the amphitheater rises the church of San Pietro, extremely important in that it was born on the site of a temple dedicated to Apollo and built with columns, capitals, and other materials collected from Alba Fucens.
We go up into the remains of the castle, unfortunately very damaged and in a serious state of abandonment but placed in a location making it worth the trip because of its splendid panorama of the mountains of Velino.
The primitive castle, once headquarters to the earls of Albe, was destroyed by Carlo D'Angiò after the battle of Tagliacozzo in 1268; the Orsinis reconstructed the actual fortress on the old ruins.