Larinum began as a Frentanian town before Rome absorbed it, and what can be seen today at Larino's Piano San Leonardo site dates mostly from the Roman centuries that followed. A Flavian-era amphitheater once held roughly 15,000 spectators for the gladiatorial games and hunts that were the Frentani region's biggest draw, and nearby baths preserve polychrome marine mosaics remarkably intact for their age.
Despite the site's real archaeological weight, it stays almost empty: recorded visitor numbers have run to only a few thousand a year, and admission has always been free.
