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HOUSE OF PIRANDELLO IN AGRIGENTO
Not far from Agrigento, near Porto Empedocle, is situated one of the most famous country districts of Sicily, Caos, famous because it was the birthplace of the eminent writer and comic playwright Luigi Pirandello, 1934 Nobel Literary Prize winner. Th...
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AGORA OF AGRIGENTO
In the area contained between the temple of Zeus Olympius and that of Hercules, as well as on the S. Nicola knoll, at the time of Greek Akragas lay the agora, heart and pulsing centre of the politico-social life of the very powerful Sicilian citta'. ...
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ABBEY OF S. SPIRITO IN AGRIGENTO
The monastic complex of S. Spirito, built in the thirteenth century thanks to a generous donation by the countess Prefolio, the wife of Federico Chiaramonte, is made up of the magnificent church and adjacent Cistercian monastery. The church has a fin...
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CATHEDRAL OF AGRIGENTO
In the highest part of the old medieval centre, stands the cathedral of Agrigento, a magnificent Norman-Gothic building, rising at the end of a huge flight of steps. Erected by the Normans in the eleventh century and consecrated to Gerlando, the firs...
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MIDDLE AGES CENTRE OF AGRIGENTO
Agrigento, a prime commercial and economic centre during both the Byzantine and Norman periods, when it dominated the Sicilian Channel and controlled all the traffic between the interior of the region and the African continent, experienced considerab...
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CHURCH OF SANTA MARIA DEI GRECI IN AGRIGENTO
In the heart of Agrigento, not far from the cathedral, stands the medieval church of Santa Maria dei Greci. Built on the remains of an ancient fifth-century BC Doric temple - a hexastyle peripteral, with 13 columns on the longer sides and six on the ...
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COOKERY OF AGRIGENTO
With its richness of colours and flavours, agrigentina cookery is an irresistible invitation to the eyes and the palate. The succulent starters include vegetables conserved in olive oil, raw minced shrimps, the "pitaggio", a mixture of fresh broad be...
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LICATA
On the slopes of the Sant'Angelo hill, on the right bank of the River Salso, stands Licata, one of the largest towns in the Province of Agrigento. The town - its land has been inhabited since Palaeolithic times, and was a Greek settlement in the sixt...
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REGIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF AGRIGENTO
In the heart of the valley of the temples stands the Regional Archaeological Museum - one of the most important in Sicily and in the whole world - entered through the cloister of the church of S. Nicola. Inaugurated in 1967, continually enriched by ...
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NARO
Situated on a hill, in a dominant position overlooking the florid valley del Paradiso, the original nucleus of Narodates from the twelfth century. Founded near Agrigento on the remains of a previous Arab settlement, -the place name of the town also c...
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HELLENIC-ROMAN QUARTER OF AGRIGENTO
On a level area, bounded to the south by the Valley of the Temples, archaeological excavation carried out in the area since 1950, has unearthed an urban area of about 15,000 sq. m., among the best-preserved in Sicily, and known by the name of the Hel...
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TEMPLE OF THE CONCORDIA IN AGRIGENTO
In the valley of the temples one of the best-preserved sacred buildings from antiquity, together with the Athenian "Theseion", can be admired: the lovely Greek temple of the Concordia, taking its name from a Latin inscription - dating from the imperi...
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TEMPLES OF AGRIGENTO
The valley of the temples at Agrigento is one of the most important and richest archaeological areas in Sicily, and embraces some of the most sublime creations of Doric architecture. Elegant and slender, the four surviving columns of what is known as...
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TEMPLE OF ZEUS OLYMPIUS IN AGRIGENTO
The temple of Zeus Olympius was erected between 480 and 470 BC, in one of the periods of great splendour enjoyed by ancient "Akragas", on the orders of the tyrant Theron, who had planned to make it one of the most majestic and imposing creations of G...
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JUNO LUCINA'S TEMPLE OF AGRIGENTO
In the south-eastern area of the valley of the temples of Agrigento, on a small ridge in a splendid panoramic position, stands the temple conventionally called Era's or Juno Lucina's. Built around 450 BC, and similar in shape to the nearby temple of ...
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VALLEY OF THE TEMPLES IN AGRIGENTO
The valley of the temples at Agrigento encloses one of the greatest ancient Greek architectural treasures still in existence: the superb Doric temples, in an excellent state of preservation, made from the intensely yellow local conchitic tufaceous sa...
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