Sulmona

Sulmona is a metropolis and comune of the province of L'Aquila in Abruzzo, Italy. It is placed inside the Valle Peligna, a plateau once occupied via a lake that disappeared in prehistoric instances. In the historical technology, it changed into one of the maximum vital cities of the Paeligni and is thought for being the local metropolis of Ovid of whom there may be a bronze statue, positioned in town's essential road, named after him.

Sulmona become one of the essential cities of the Paeligni, asan Italic tribe, however no be aware of it is determined in history before the Roman conquest. A way of life alluded to through Ovid and Silius Italicus, which ascribed its basis to Solymus, a Phrygian and one of the partners of Aeneas, is obviously a trifling etymological fiction. The first point out of Sulmo takes place in the Second Punic War, whilst its territory become ravaged by way of Hannibal in 211 BC, who, but, did no longer attack the city itself.