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Ancient Greek and Roman sacred sites in Italy
Explore Ancient Greek and Roman sacred sites in Italy: pilgrimage places, living traditions, heritage landmarks, and sacred landscapes.
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Temple of Apollo, Syracuse
Syracuse, Sicily, Italy
Before the Parthenon rose in Athens, before Selinunte built its great sanctuaries, the colonists of Syracuse raised a temple to Apollo in stone....
Alatri acropoli
Alatri, Lazio, Italy
High above the Cosa River valley, the Acropolis of Alatri rises within walls so massive that ancient Greeks believed only the Cyclopes could have built them....
Tempio di Portuno, Rome, Italy
Rome, Lazio, Italy
The Temple of Portunus rises beside the Tiber where Rome's oldest river port once received the city's commerce....
Doric Temple of Segesta
Calatafimi Segesta, Sicily, Italy
In the hills of western Sicily, a Doric temple stands almost complete after 2,400 years, its thirty-six unfluted columns rising against wild mountains and distant sea....
Selinunte Archeological Park
Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy
Selinunte was the westernmost Greek colony in Sicily, a frontier city that built eight massive temples between 590 and 420 BC before Carthage destroyed it in 409 BC....
The Ruins of Paestum (Basilica of Hera)
Capaccio Paestum, Campania, Italy
Paestum stands as one of the most complete Greek sacred sites outside Greece itself....
Temple of Concordia
Agrigento, Sicily, Italy
On a ridge overlooking the Mediterranean, the Temple of Concordia rises in near-perfect preservation, its thirty-four columns intact, its pediments complete, its...
Santuario delle Divinità Ctonie
Agrigento, Sicilia, Italy
The Sanctuary of the Chthonic Deities occupies the western end of the Valle dei Templi, a monumental sacred area divided into three terraces of altars, enclosures, and...
Tempio di Hera (E)
Selinunte, Sicilia, Italy
The Temple of Heracles is the oldest sacred structure in the Valle dei Templi, dating to approximately 510 BC....
Tempio di Atena (F)
Selinunte, Sicilia, Italy
The Temple of Heracles is the oldest sacred structure in the Valle dei Templi, dating to approximately 510 BC....
Tempio di Apollo (C)
Selinunte, Sicilia, Italy
The Temple of Heracles is the oldest sacred structure in the Valle dei Templi, dating to approximately 510 BC....
Tempio di Giunone
Agrigento, Sicilia, Italy
The Temple of Juno stands at the highest point of the Valle dei Templi ridge, its 30 surviving columns receiving the first light of each Sicilian dawn....
Tempio de Discuori
Agrigento, Sicilia, Italy
The Temple of Heracles is the oldest sacred structure in the Valle dei Templi, dating to approximately 510 BC....
Teatro di Segesta
Calatafimi-Segesta, Sicilia, Italy
The Theatre of Segesta sits atop Monte Barbaro in northwestern Sicily, carved from the hillside above a cave that held a sacred spring over a thousand years before the...
Tempio di Zeus (G)
Selinunte, Sicilia, Italy
The Temple of Heracles is the oldest sacred structure in the Valle dei Templi, dating to approximately 510 BC....
Tempio di Ercole
Agrigento, Sicilia, Italy
The Temple of Heracles is the oldest sacred structure in the Valle dei Templi, dating to approximately 510 BC....
Valle dei Templi
Agrigento, Sicilia, Italy
The Valle dei Templi in Agrigento preserves seven ancient Greek temples along a south-facing ridge overlooking the sea....
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