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Ancient Greek and Roman sacred sites in Italy

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Alatri acropoli

Alatri, Frosinone, 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....

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Doric Temple of Segesta

Calatafimi Segesta, Trapani, 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....

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Santuario delle Divinità Ctonie

Part of Valle dei Templi

Agrigento, Agrigento, 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...

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Selinunte Archeological Park

Castelvetrano, Trapani, 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....

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Teatro di Segesta

Calatafimi-Segesta, Trapani, 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...

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Tempio de Discuori

Part of Valle dei Templi

Agrigento, Agrigento, Italy

The Temple of Heracles is the oldest sacred structure in the Valle dei Templi, dating to approximately 510 BC....

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Tempio di Apollo (C)

Selinunte, Trapani, Italy

The Temple of Heracles is the oldest sacred structure in the Valle dei Templi, dating to approximately 510 BC....

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Tempio di Atena (F)

Selinunte, Trapani, Italy

The Temple of Heracles is the oldest sacred structure in the Valle dei Templi, dating to approximately 510 BC....

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Tempio di Ercole

Part of Valle dei Templi

Agrigento, Agrigento, Italy

The Temple of Heracles is the oldest sacred structure in the Valle dei Templi, dating to approximately 510 BC....

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Tempio di Giunone

Part of Valle dei Templi

Agrigento, Agrigento, 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....

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Tempio di Hera (E)

Selinunte, Trapani, Italy

The Temple of Heracles is the oldest sacred structure in the Valle dei Templi, dating to approximately 510 BC....

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Tempio di Portuno, Rome, Italy

Rome, Rome, Italy

The Temple of Portunus rises beside the Tiber where Rome's oldest river port once received the city's commerce....

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Tempio di Zeus (G)

Selinunte, Trapani, Italy

The Temple of Heracles is the oldest sacred structure in the Valle dei Templi, dating to approximately 510 BC....

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Temple of Apollo, Syracuse

Syracuse, Syracuse, Italy

Before the Parthenon rose in Athens, before Selinunte built its great sanctuaries, the colonists of Syracuse raised a temple to Apollo in stone....

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Temple of Concordia

Agrigento, Agrigento, 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...

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The Ruins of Paestum (Basilica of Hera)

Capaccio Paestum, Salerno, Italy

Paestum stands as one of the most complete Greek sacred sites outside Greece itself....

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Valle dei Templi

Agrigento, Agrigento, Italy

The Valle dei Templi in Agrigento preserves seven ancient Greek temples along a south-facing ridge overlooking the sea....

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