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A Virtual Tour of Agrigento’s Valley of the Temples, will be presented on Friday March 31, at Italian Culture Institute in Washington D.C..
Valley of the Temples, is an archeological park located in Southern Sicily, including five Greek temples built in the 5th century BC. The temples, erected with local tufa in Doric style, were named after the Greek gods.
- The temple of Olympian Zeus was built to thank Zeus after the successful war of the Agrigentinians against the Carthaginians in 480 BC.
- The temple of Dioscuri was dedicated to Leda and Zeus’s twins.
- The temple of Concorde, built in 430 BC, and then turned into a church in the 6th century, is the only temple still standing in its whole
- The temple of Hera Lacinia, was attributed to Juno, the goddess of marriage and birth.
- The temple of Heracles including the Tomb of Terone, is pyramid-shaped and was built to commemorate the soldiers died during the Second Punic War.
Valley of the Temples, located in the municipality of Agrigento, is one of the main tourist attractions in Sicily.
