Monte Rinaldo. A Roman Sanctuary in the middle of Picenum

The remains of the Sanctuary of Monte Rinaldo are located in the middle-Adriatic area, along the border between the territories of the Latin Colony of Firmum Pikenum to the north and of the civitas foederata of Asculum to the south. Ancient literary sources recount that Asculum as civitas caput gentis, one of the capital cities of the Pikentes, and that Rome made an agreement with Asculum and the Pikentes during the 3rd century BC, in order to jointly oppose the invasion of the Galli Senoni from the north, and probably the city was still an ally of Rome in the following centuries up to the social civil war at the beginning of the 1st century BC (90 BC). The Sanctuary of Monte Rinaldo was discovered thanks to agricultural activity and has been investigated several times over the last sixty years. In the middle of the last century the collapsed main porticus was discovered and was subsequently rebuilt in the form that we can still see today