Peltuinum was a Roman town of the Vestini, on the ancient Via Claudia Nova, 20 km east of L'Aquila, Italy,[1] between the modern-day settlements of Prata d'Ansidonia and Castelnuovo.

At the turn of the first century AD the city wall and a monumental sanctuary area were built of which excavations have brought to light a temple and a theatre.

In 47 AD the L'Aquila-Foggia road from Sabina towards the market centres of Arpi and Lucera was structured as via Claudia Nova with the consequent monumentalisation of the stretch that crossed the town.

During the Greek-Gothic war the territory of Peltuinum, like that of nearby Alba Fucens, were the sites of Byzantine camps of general Belisarius.

The temple overlooked the square and was a Corinthian hexastyle prostyle, with three columns on the extension of the doors and a cella with a colonnade of perhaps two orders, with the base for the cult statue on the back wall.