Sito archeologico di Largo Madonna delle Grazie

The archaeological site beside Teramo's Sanctuary of the Madonna delle Grazie preserves remains of a Roman house and a later fullonica, or cloth-working complex. Sheltered rooms retain patterned floors that reveal the site's domestic and industrial history.

Why it matters

The remains document several phases of life in Roman Interamnia. The earliest domestic structures date to the late Republican period; in the Augustan era, the property developed into a larger house organised around a peristyle. From the third century, parts of the complex were adapted for cloth washing and treatment.

What to notice

Two rooms preserve mosaic floors with geometric patterns, including dolphins and caducei. Painted plaster in one room imitates marble panels. The later fullonica is visible in basins and working surfaces inserted into the earlier house, making the transition from domestic to productive use legible in the same archaeological complex.

Context and history

Archaeological investigations in the 1990s uncovered the buildings in the area between the medieval walls and the sanctuary. The excavated sequence records occupation from the late second century BC through the end of the Roman period. A protective canopy was built over key rooms in the late twentieth century, and the site was opened as part of a small urban park in 2000.