8 Sights in Agrigento, Italy (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Agrigento, Italy. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 8 sights are available in Agrigento, Italy.
Sightseeing Tours in Agrigento
The Valle dei Templi, or Valley of the Temples, is an archaeological site in Agrigento, Sicily. It is one of the most outstanding examples of ancient Greek art and architecture of Magna Graecia, and is one of the main attractions of Sicily. The term "valley" is a misnomer, the site being located on a ridge outside the town of Agrigento.
The Temple of Concordia is an ancient Greek temple of Magna Graecia in the Valle dei Templi in Agrigento on the south coast of Sicily, Italy. It is the largest and best-preserved Doric temple in Sicily and one of the best-preserved Greek temples in general, especially of the Doric order. It is located a kilometer east to the Temple of Heracles.
3. Giardino della Kolymbetra
The Kolymbethra garden is an archaeological site of great natural and landscape relevance, located in a small valley in the heart of the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento. In 1999 the Sicilian Region entrusted it with free grant to the Italian Environment Fund (FAI) for a period of 25 years, putting an end to the abandonment situation in which it had fallen in the last decades of the twentieth century; following this it became one of the places of archaeological / naturalistic interest of great importance at territorial and national level. The vegetational and structural restoration organized by the FAI allows the visit to the Temple of Ephesus, in addition to the discovery of some hypogeas.
4. Museo Diocesano
The former Diocesan Museum was designed by the architect Museographer Franco Minissi, commissioned by the then bishop of Agrigento Mons. Giovanni Battista Peruzzo. Made between 1958 and 1963, demolishing the Catholic Didactic Circle San Gerlando, the museum was opened to the public in '64, but performs its function for a very short period, about two years, since in '66, due to the landslide that occurred Along the south-west side of the historic center of the city, it is precautionally closed and its collection located in the Archaeological Museum of San Nicola and in the premises of the nearby Archbishop's Palace.
5. Museo Archeologico Regionale Pietro Griffo
The "Pietro Griffento" Regional Archaeological Museum of Agrigento collects the collections of state, civic and diocesan archaeological materials, and constitutes an organic and of particular importance for the understanding of the history of the city of Agrigento and its territory. The architecture and the museographic structure is due to the architect Franco Minissi.
6. Cattedrale di San Gerlando
Agrigento Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Agrigento, Sicily, dedicated to Saint Gerland. Founded in the 11th century, it was consecrated in 1099 as the seat of the restored bishop of Agrigento. The diocese was elevated to an archdiocese in 2000, and the cathedral is thus now the seat of the Archbishop of Agrigento.
7. Temple of Olimpic Jupiter
The Temple of Olympian Zeus in Agrigento, Sicily was the largest Doric temple ever constructed, although it was never completed and now lies in ruins. It stands in the Valle dei Templi with a number of other major Greek temples.
8. Santuario della Beata Maria Vergine Addolorata
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Sorrows is one of the most important Catholic Marian places of worship in Agrigento and home to one of the oldest confraternities in the city, that of Maria SS. Dei Sette Dolori.
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