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Selinunte
Selinunte was an ancient Greek city on Sicily's southwest coast, notable for a compact acropolis crowded with large Doric temples. The archaeological park preserves multiple temple complexes, altars, streets and fortifications from the Archaic and Classical periods. The city was destroyed in the late 5th century BC and subsequently abandoned; today its ruined temples and terraces sit on a limestone promontory above the sea.
First raised
650 BC
Its prime
420 BC
Today
Ruin
As it stood in 420 BC
What Selinunte looked like in its prime.
On a limestone acropolis crowded with temples, multiple massive Doric peristyles and high stepped podia form a skyline of fluted stone columns, wide entablatures and triangular pediments filled with painted terracotta sculpture. Walls and terraces step down to the sea; roofs would have been timber with fired‑clay (terracotta) tiles and polychrome antefixes. Streets cross the plateau at right angles, bordered by Doric porticoes and open rectangular altars of dressed local limestone, giving an ensemble of pale beige stone, red roofs and coloured architectural terracottas.
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10 places to explore in 420 BC.
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