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At the Valley of the Temples, time-travel back to when Sicily was a Greek colony. While little survives of ancient Agrigento, you can wander through the remains of a few grand temples, including the largest Doric temple of the ancient world. Visit for more information about this destination and other destinations in Europe.
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For thousands of years the ruins of the magnificent temples in the Valle Dei Templi have risen up from the ancient city of Akragas and today Agrigento is now one of the most well known and most visited places in Sicily. In addition to the temple districts, in recent years the medieval centre of Agrigento with its narrow and romantic lanes has attracted an increasing number of visitors.In the 3rd century B.C. Akragas was conquered by the Carthaginians and later by the Romans, Byzantines and Arabs and over the years the size of the legendary ancient Polis was gradually reduced to that of a village. But Agrigento enjoyed a further period of prosperity under the Norman King, Roger The Second, who declared it a diocesan town. The classical splendour of the ancient temples of Agrigento leave an indelible impression in the memories of all those who experience them.
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Can't believe this is Italy! Tour of The Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, Sicily
Today we go on a tour of The Valley of the Temples (Valle dei Tempi) in Agrigento, Sicily. Subscribe for more videos:
Who knew that Italy had so many well-kept Greek Temples? Well ok, some people like Rick Steves maybe, but I always thought you could only see this kind of scene in Greece - glad I was wrong! Agrigento is the site of Ancient Greek city called Akragas (notice the similarities?) and The Valley of the Temples contains some of the most beautiful and best kept Greek Temples outside of Greece, for which reason is surely worth a visit if you are ever in Sicily or love everything Greece related. It is a World Heritage Site for a reason after all!
The whole town of Agrigento is something truly unique when experienced for the first time - The Valley of the Temples, which is actually a ridge and not a valley but try hyping up The Ridge of the Temples? Yeah, not as sexy... Anyhow, the Valley overlooks the perched town of the Agrigento, which itself takes on a yellowish-brown colour that matches the loess coloured soil and adds the perfect element to make the whole scene feel surreal. Honestly, I thought of Egypt when I first heard the name Valley of the Temples, and the nature surrounding the area does absolutely nothing to displace the feeling of grandeur elicited by such thoughts - it delivers the magic!
During our tour, we started off by visiting the Temple of Hera (or Juno in Roman mythology), who of course was the wife of Zeus. Built in 450 BC, parts of the temple were damaged by fire in 406 BC and restored during Roman times. The temple really looks to be in very good shape, and according to our tour guide a lot of this had to do with its Doric style that is better suited to combat earthquakes.
We then see what the fortifications look like - which were basically directly carved out from a mountain! Crazy! And if that wasn't crazy enough, we then learned that tombs, called arcosolia (pl. of arcosolium), were also carved out from the mountains there. I can't even imagine how you would do that...
We then stopped for a little snack to refuel and chat with a friendly passer-by, to then get to the Temple of Concordia. This Temple is incredibly well-preserved, and a real treat to explore, and also one of the most notable example of Ancient Greek buildings existing anywhere today. A reason for why it was so well-kept can be attributed to its conversion into a Christian church.
They also have Girgentana goats on the premisses brought to Sicily and Agrigento all the way from Afghanistan in the 4th century BC!
We then explored the Temple of Olympian Zeus, but sadly this temple was more or less destroyed. We also saw one of the atlas giants in the Olympeion field before finally taking the train back to the start.
The set up in the Valley of the Temples is really neat - a narrow road basically connects all the sites, which makes it incredibly easy and convenient to explore. So you can walk it one way and then just simply take the train on your way back.
Our tour guide was Sergio Bruccato. He was very insightful and kept us interested and engaged the whole time. Highly recommended if you are ever in town and consider doing the Valley of the Temples (which will likely be THE reason why you are in town anyways). Here's his contact info:
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The Temples of Agrigento, Selinunte & Segesta in Sicily, Italy | 2017 4K
A video of the Ancient Greek Temple sites of Valle Dei Templi (Valley of Temples) in Agrigento, the temple of Hera in Selinunte and the Doric temple and Greek Theatre of Segesta, all in Siciliy, Italy.
All built around the 5th Century BC.
0:00 Valle Dei Templi, Agrigento
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3:50 The Ancient Doric Temple & Greek Theatre of Segesta
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Valle Dei Templi or, The Valley Of Temples, contains the sacred sites and ruins of the ancient city of Akragas, today’s Agrigento. Due to the transformation of a number of its temples into Christian churches, the greater part of Sicily’s ancient sanctuaries have managed to survive to the present day.The ruins of the Zeus Temple are in stark contrast to the modern high rise settlements of Agrigento that are situated on the opposite side of the valley. The sanctuary is without a doubt one of the largest temples of its kind and was built by Theron in the 5th century B.C. The majestic Concordia Temple dates back to 425 B.C. and is one of the most well-preserved sanctuaries of Ancient Greece. The return to the aesthetic and textual ideals of Classic times could not have found a worthier or more splendid setting than the beautiful Valle Dei Templi.
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Check your local public television station for this Rick Steves’ Europe episode or watch it on This tour of Sicilian highlights starts in Palermo, where we'll sing with the merchants in the markets, join locals in their passeggiata, drop in on a contessa, and marvel at the Romanesque cathedral of Monreale. Then we'll sip wine on the slopes of Mount Etna, munch cannoli, ponder Greek temples at Agrigento, admire Roman mosaics at the Villa of Casale, and marvel at the view from the Greek theater in Taormina.
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During the 4th Century BC, Sicily was the new Greece of the west. Our journey will take us to the various cultural centers that dotted the island, such as Syracuse, Agrigento, with the exquisite Valley of the Temples, and Selinus, present-day Selenunte.
The Valle dei Templi (English: Valley of the Temples, Sicilian: Vaddi di li Tempri) is an archaeological site in Agrigento (ancient Greek Akragas), Sicily, southern Italy. It is one of the most outstanding examples of Greater Greece art and architecture, and is one of the main attractions of Sicily as well as a national monument of Italy. The area was included in the UNESCO Heritage Site list in 1997. Much of the excavation and restoration of the temples was due to the efforts of archaeologist Domenico Antonio Lo Faso Pietrasanta (1783--1863), who was the Duke of Serradifalco from 1809 through 1812. The archaeological park and landscape of the Valley of the Temples is the largest archaeological site in the world with 1,300 hectares.
The term valley is a misnomer, the site being located on a ridge outside the town of Agrigento.
This temple was constructed on a mostly artificial spur. It dates to c. 450 BC, measuring 38.15 x 16.90 m: it is in Doric style, peripteros 6 columns wide by 13 long, preceded by a pronaos and opisthodomos. The basement has four steps.
Current remains (including anastylosis from the 18th Century onwards) consist of the front colonnade with parts of the architrave and of the frieze. Only fragments of the other three sides survive, with few elements of the cella. The building was damaged in the fire of 406 BC and restored in Roman times, with the substitution of clay marble roof tiles with ones and the addition of a steep rise in the area where today can be seen the remains of the altar.
Nearby are arcosolia and other sepultures from Byzantine times, belonging to the late 6th century AD renovation of the Temple of Concordia into a Christian church.
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