Cures

Cures was a Sabine city in ancient central Italy. It lay between the left bank of the Tiber and the Via Salaria about 24 miles north of Rome. The excavations are located on the hill of Santa Maria in Arci at Talocci, a district of Fara in Sabina. The modern districts Corese Terra and Passo Corese are named after the ancient Cures.

Cures played a role as the origin of the Sabine king Titus Tatius and Numa Pompilius in the legendary early history of Rome. Also the name of the hill Quirinal and the name Quirites for Roman citizens supposed to have derived from Cures. Archeological a settlement since the 9th century BC is proved.

Since 290 BC Cures belonged to the Roman sphere of influence and was a municipium of the tribus Sergia, where in the late Republic under Sulla and Caesar colonists were settled. From Roman times came a temple, a forum, a theater and thermal baths. In late antiquity Cures was the Bishop ( to which the titular Cures Sabinorum the Roman Catholic Church goes back ). The city was destroyed by the Lombards late 6th century.

In several excavation campaigns both traces of huts dating from the Iron Age and the Roman Cures were exposed. For the finds and the documentation the Museo Civico Archeologico in Fara in Sabina is in charge.

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