In the middle Aterno Valley;near the outlaying village of Civita di Bagno;there is the archaeological site of the Medieval Civitas S.Maxim in Comitatu Furconensi.The several excavations of the last years have brought to light an interesting monumental building;which testifies the presence of a settlement of the late republican age.The epigraphic data and the finds contribute to outline the characteristics of the area.Actually;a few archaeological evidences were already known inside the town where;beside later buildings;it was and is possible to see parts of the old town-walls;remains of a Roman building below San Massimo Cathedral and of a bathing-establishment enclosed in the foundations of the sixteenth-century Villa Oliva;furthermore;the temple of the goddess Feronia;discovered and covered again with earth in the Seventies;besides several funeral and dedicatory inscriptions;which confirm the existence of a Roman town.