Ancient site · Italy · Partial ruin
Paestum
Paestum is an ancient Greco-Roman archaeological site on the Campanian coast of southern Italy centred on three large Doric temples, a forum, an amphitheatre and substantial city walls. The excavated area contains paved streets and the footings or lower walls of many public and domestic buildings, with the main temples grouped in an open grassy sanctuary. The site today is an open archaeological park adjacent to a modern village and railway station.
First raised
599 BC
Its prime
200 BC
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 200 BC
The shape it held in its prime.
A broad grassy archaeological plain punctuated by three large stone Doric temples with heavy fluted columns and pronounced entasis, two Hera temples standing side-by-side and the Athena temple on a higher podium. A polygonal stone city wall with square towers surrounds the complex; paved straight streets and rectangular foundations form a clear grid. The small Roman amphitheatre, a low heroon mound and scattered trees sit amid trimmed grass and worn stone altars and steps.
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