Do not search for the valley! The temples (a dozen of them) erected in 5 BC, are located on the ridge to the south of the town, . Set on fire by the Carthaginians in 406, they were restored in their original style by the Romans. Earthquakes, fanatica..

The temple, which has been kept intact, dates from 430 AD. but we forget the person to whom it was consecrated. This is a great example of optical illusion. The columns become narrower at the top to make them appear larger but have a bulge two thirds..

The San Nicola monastery accommodates this museum, which unites pieces found across the whole Agrigento region. Do not miss the colossal 7.5 m high Telamon (Atlantes), taken from the temple of Jupiter (there were once 38 of these), or the Ephebe o..

The Temple of the Dioscuri was built at the end of the 5C BC in homage to the twins Castor and Pollux. The only remains of the temple are four columns, which were rebuilt in the 19C, plus a section of the entablature, although this has not prevented ..

Hercules' temple is probably the oldest temple in Agrigento. Its archaic Doric style columns, which were rebuilt in the early 20C, make it possible for visitors to imagine the elegance that this building, dedicated to the legend of this man and his t..

The temple of Juno was build around 470 BC and set ablaze by the Carthaginians in 406. You can see the marks left by the smoke on the walls of the cella, the room in which the statue of the Goddess once stood. Although the temple is not in a perfect ..

This 18C Church sheds a rather positive light on the notion of purgatory, its ochre tufa offering an attractive contrast to the white of the door decorated with wreathed columns. Inside are stuccos by Giacomo Serpotta , one of the Sicilian Baroque m..

This vast urban complex accommodates the ruins of many houses, some of which have retained parts of their geometrically patterned or figurative mosaics. The area is above all remarkable for its grid layout, abiding by the rules set by the Greek town-..

This 5ha basin dug by Carthaginian prisoners after the Battle of Himera was originally a fishpond. Over time, it has been transformed into a particularly fertile orchard. After years of lying abandoned, Kolymbetra Garden was taken over and managed by..

In memory of Luigi Pirandello (illustrious author of Six characters seeking an author who was born and buried in Caos, below Agrigento), this square is flanked by a beautiful 17C town hall, an old Dominican convent and a Baroque church whose façade..

The small Saint-Mary-of the-Greeks church was built in the 14C on what was left of a temple consecrated to Athena. It was dedicated to the Greek orthodox religion.

Founded in 1765 by Bishop Lucchesi Palli, this library contains more than 45,000 ancient books and manuscripts. The statue of the founder keeps watch over the reading room with its neatly aligned wooden shelves. Books on secular subjects are kept to ..

The Normans in the 11C built the first Cathedral. Windows from the original edifice remain at the level of the current transept. The Cathedral was rebuilt between the 13 and 14C, modified in the 17C and then restored after its collapse in 1966. The u..

Goethe stayed in the Celauro palace (whose main a façade overlooked the street of the same name, beside the Franciscan Church of the l' Immaculate Conception (modified in the 18C.). A small portal to the right of the church takes you to the façad..

19C del Campo-Lazzarini palace and 18C Barone Celauro palace with its two rows of small balconies are worth a closer look on this avenue flanking the palace.

The convent and its church date from the 13C. The façade has retained a gothic portal and the single-nave interior has a beautiful baroque decor and five high-relief by Giacomo Serpotta. The Abbey stands out for its most attractive entrance to the ..

This path leading to the upper-town and medieval Agrigento, a real acropolis, is a pleasant belvedere in the shadow of fig trees where you can admire the view over the Valley of the Temples. At the end of the path opposite the station, you will see t..

The temple had been destroyed but was rebuilt around 480 BC to celebrate Agrigento's victory over the Carthaginians at Himera. Never completed, it is nonetheless one of the biggest temples ever built in Antiquity. Its entablature was supported by 20m..

Set up in the Casa Pace, this centre relates a period in the town's history through explanatory panels and interesting reference points, such as the story of the temple of the Concorde's conversion into a basilica.

The centre, set up in the rustic setting of the Casa Barbadoro unites many beautiful reproductions of drawings and etchings from the valley of the temples accomplished by archaeologists and travellers of yesteryear.