Thanks to a collaboration between public and private bodies it was possible to undertake, within in the “Cales-Sociale” international project promoted by the Consorzio Mediterraneo Sociale scarl, the first Archaeological Summer School in ancient Cales (Calvi Risorta – Caserta). The Archaeological Superintendency for Salerno, Avellino, Benevento and Caserta, the Dipartimento di Archeologia Pubblica Sociale del Consorzio Mediterraneo Sociale scarl, with the support of the local administration and the
Colegio Oficial de Doctores y Licenciados en Filosofía y Letras y en Ciencias de Sevilla y Huelva completed a first season of excavations at Cales in the temple area near the Roman theatre in the heart of the ancient city.

The excavations produced very interesting results. The Augustan temple, as had been suggested, was perhaps peripteral. The majority of its columns were made of brick plastered with white stucco, while the marble columns of which only a few fragments were found probably only stood at the front. New data was collected regarding the layout of the cella, which seemed to have had a room to the rear that could only be entered through two small doors. The cella was paved in a very fine white and black mosaic, while the ambulatory surrounding it was paved in white and black mosaic with marble insertions. The brick-built temple podium was faced with very thick marble slabs, almost all of which reused, which rested on large moulded limestone blocks, also partly robbed from earlier structures. The temple ruins seem to have been used in the late antique period as a burial ground. A few simple, badly disturbed graves were found, covered by a vast collapse. The latter was cut by recent agricultural activity. It is hoped that the discovery of numerous architectural fragments will provide enough data for a reconstruction of the temple and its decoration, which must have been very rich.