The site of Alba Fucens is one of the most important archaeological evidences in the Abruzzi.;Built on the Via Valeria;which led from the Fucino basin to Rome;the town was provided with a right-angled road system when it was founded between the end of the IV and the beginning of the III century B.C.;The excavations;started in 1949;have brought to light the calcareous defenses;the four entrance gates of the town;the forum;the basilica;the macellum;the laconicum;a temple dedicated to Hercules;the theater and the amphitheater.;On the main road;called "Road of the Elephant" because of a few marble decorative heads of elephants found there;there are remains of the columnated porch of the forum;of the basilica and of the macellum;the square building of the town market.;In the South-east area there are remains of a bath-structure;of which the archaeologists have recognized the laconium;a room located before the steam baths;and a temple consecrated to Hercules;here they discovered a huge statue of the eponymous god;dated to the first half of the I century B.C.and today kept in Chieti.;On the so called "Road of Pillars" a few tabernae lie;along with the theater;the "Milestone Road" leads westward to a Roman domus;to the amphitheater and to the Romanic Saint Peter's church;built upon the ruins of a pagan temple dedicated to Apollo and Diana.;