Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Agrigento, Italy
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3.2 km
123 m
Explore Agrigento in Italy with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in AgrigentoIndividual Sights in AgrigentoSight 1: Museo Archeologico Regionale Pietro Griffo
The "Pietro Griffo" Regional Archaeological Museum of Agrigento brings together the collections of state, civic and diocesan archaeological materials, and constitutes an organic whole of particular importance for the understanding of the history of the city of Agrigento and its territory. The architecture and the museographic layout are due to the architect Franco Minissi.
Sight 2: Tempio di Iside
The Temple of Isis was a Roman temple in the ancient city of Agrigentum, modern Agrigento.
Sight 3: Akragas
Agrigento is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy and capital of the province of Agrigento.
Sight 4: 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.
Sight 5: Temple of Castor and Pollux
The Temple of the Dioscuri was a Greek temple of the ancient city of Akragas located in the Valley of the Temples of Agrigento.
Sight 6: Tempio L
Temple L was a Greek temple in the ancient city of Akragas located in the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento.
Sight 7: Giardino della Kolymbetra
The Kolymbethra Garden is an archaeological site of great naturalistic and landscape importance, located in a small valley in the heart of the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento. In 1999 the Sicilian Region entrusted it in free concession to the Italian Environment Fund (FAI) for a period of 25 years, putting an end to the situation of abandonment in which it had fallen in the last decades of the twentieth century; As a result of this, it has become one of the places of archaeological/naturalistic interest of great importance at a territorial and national level. The vegetation and structural restoration organized by FAI allows a visit to the Temple of Hephaestus, as well as the discovery of some hypogea.
Sight 8: Temple of Vulcano
The Temple of Hephaestus, or Temple of Vulcan, was a Greek temple in the ancient city of Akragas located in the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento.
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