6 Sights in Capaccio, Italy (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Capaccio, Italy! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Capaccio. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
Sightseeing Tours in Capaccio1. Archaeological site of Paestum
Paestum was a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, in Magna Graecia. The ruins of Paestum are famous for their three ancient Greek temples in the Doric order dating from about 550 to 450 BC that are in an excellent state of preservation. The city walls and amphitheatre are largely intact, and the bottom of the walls of many other structures remain, as well as paved roads. The site is open to the public, and there is a modern national museum within it, which also contains the finds from the associated Greek site of Foce del Sele.
2. First Temple of Hera (also called The Basilica)
The Basilica is located in the archaeological site of Poseidonia, a city of Magna Graecia renamed Paestum by the Romans. It is located in the southern sanctuary of the city, where it stands, parallel and almost aligned on the eastern side, a short distance from the later temple of Neptune.
3. Second Temple of Hera (also called of Neptune or Poseidon)
The Temple of Hera II, is a Greek temple of Magna Graecia in Paestum, Campania, Italy. It was built in the Doric order around 460–450 BC, just north of the first Hera Temple of around 550–525 BC. If still in use by the 4th-and 5th century, it would have been closed during the persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire.
4. Archaeological site of Hera Argiva
The Heraion at Foce del Sele is an archaeological site consisting of an Ancient Greek sanctuary complex dedicated to the goddess Hera in what was Magna Graecia. When built, the complex was located at the mouth of the Sele, approximately 8 km (5.0 mi) north of the Greek city of Poseidonia that was famous for its three standing Greek temples. Due to the deposition of alluvial sediment by the river, the site now is approximately 2.3 km (1.4 mi) from the modern coast.
5. Temple of Athena (or Ceres. Later a Christian church)
The Temple of Athena is a Greek temple of Magna Graecia found at Paestum, in Capaccio Paestum, a comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy. It was built around 500 BC and was for some time incorrectly thought to have been dedicated to Ceres, but as a result of the recovery of numerous statuettes in terracotta depicting Athena, it is now thought to have been dedicated to her.
6. Chiesa dell'Annunziata
The church of SS. Annunziata dates back to the beginning of the fifth century A.D. and is located within the archaeological site of Paestum, in the municipality of Capaccio Paestum in the Province of Salerno.
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