The Roman town named Teate was founded on a hill between the rivers Pescara and Alento;in a place inhabited since the prehistory.The area developed considerably in the first century B.C.;when it became a Roman municipium with the name of Teate Marrucinorum.;The most significant remains;situated in the public area of the town;are the citadel;the theater;the public baths and the Roman temples.In the site of the citadel;the archaeologists discovered earthenware;statues and temple decorations dated from the republican age (I century B.C.) and an amphitheater of the first century A.D.;At the foot of the hill where the citadel rises it is easy to recognize the ruins of the first-century Roman amphitheater;enclosed in the town and to identify its perimetric wall and a few remains of a semicircular two-storey hallway.;The baths (II century B.C) were located underneath the east side of the hill:it was a big area;decorated with mosaics and divided in several rooms;supplied with water from an underground cistern in front of the baths.;The ancient forum exhibits the remains of three Roman temples;built during the imperial age;in the site the archaeologists discovered mosaic surfaces and buildings related to a former worship and erected using the old technique known as opus quadratum.