The archaeological area of "La Cuma" preserves the remains of a Roman sanctuary built from the mid-2nd century BC, which then went through various phases until complete abandonment in the first half of the 1st century AD.

It is an ancient place of worship consisting of three main buildings located on a hillside terrace with a temple dedicated to Jupiter in the center.

Not much of this temple with an uncertain plan is preserved, but what is known is the decoration of the roof with colored architectural terracottas and terracotta sculptures painted on the pediment. Over time, the building has experienced collapses, abandonments, and modern interventions that have greatly influenced the understanding of visitors.

Despite this, a very important fact is that both this temple and the other two buildings have yielded significant fragments of painted architectural terracottas, a testimony that, combined with the monumentality of the portico columns, allows us to understand the nature and quality of these structures and the entire complex even in the absence of standing walls.

Behind the temple, there is a monumental colonnaded portico preserved for a length of over 62 meters, with fluted columns in Doric and Italic-Ionic order, dating back to the second quarter of the 2nd century BC. This building served the dual function of containing the hillside and providing a scenic backdrop to the terrace, in line with the Hellenistic architectures that were spreading throughout the Mediterranean at that time.

At the beginning of the 1st century BC, the small building called "Building C" was also constructed immediately west of the temple: a shrine, or a small temple, dedicated to a minor cult (most likely Hercules) as suggested by the architectural terracottas and ceramics found in this area with a dedication to Hercules scratched on the vase wall.

After centuries of abandonment, the first findings of the collapsed columns of the main portico were fortuitously discovered in 1957, leading to excavation campaigns in the 1960s that included the reconstruction of the portico columns and many walls destroyed by excavators to recover fragments of statues and terracotta decorations reused inside. The excavation history at La Cuma continued sporadically until 2015 when a new research project (still ongoing) was launched by archaeologists from the University of Bologna and the British Academy in Rome.