Temple-Theater Complex in Monte San Nicola, Italy

The story of the Temple-Theater of Monte San Nicola is the story of an ancient and beautiful treasure, which remained hidden for many years in the mountains surrounding the village of Pietravairano, in Upper Casertano, Italy. Lying at 410m high in the Sannio area, the temple-theater complex dates back to the late Ancient Roman Republican period, 2nd-1st Century BC. In February 2000, Nicolino Lombardi, head teacher, local history scholar, and ultralight helicopter enthusiast, circling in the skies of Pietravairano, discovered the ruins of what would soon prove to be a spectacular late-republican Roman temple-theater complex.