Overstepped Ocre, on the way to Sulmona, one encounters the village of Fossa, a beautiful community of about 660 people on the slopes of Mt. Circolo which is now unfortunately partly uninhabitable due to the earthquake of 2009.
The ancient city, known in Roman times as Aveia, was among the cities that supported Scipio Africanus during Punic Wars. The town is well known today both for the presence of the small, but stupendous church of Santa Maria ad Cryptas (undergoing restoration) which is located just outside the town, and above all for the exceptional, vast, and archaeologically important necropolis of Fossa, where hundreds of tombs and many objects dating from the early Iron Age (IX-VIII century BC) were brought to light.
For info:
www.comunedifossa.it
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