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Contrada Belice di Mare 3, Marinella di Selinunte, 91022, Italy
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The beach in front of the hotel at dusk
The Belice River Nature Reserve
The Museum
Floor Mosaics
The temples area is huge... (see the temples in background from the acropolis in the picture here).
Be prepared to walk a lot... If you are lazy, there are little electric carts that run along the whole area... a little expencive but very nice!
One day nearly 500 years ago, a monk travelling on the isolated track in western Sicily came across a strange site: close to a rocky outcrop covered by dense Mediterranean scrub, the man saw some enormous stone cylinders, scattered over the ground in an apparent random pattern. The monks name was Tommaso Fazelo, a great academic and scholar of philosophy. What he had discovered was Selinunte the Greek colony which within a few decades of foundation in the 7th century BC by Greek Sicilian settlers from Megara Hyblea, succeeded in prospering and growing to such an extend that it became famous and respected throughout the known world of that age. Today Selinunte is the largest archaeological park in Europe, situated in an incomparably beautiful natural setting, with the constant sound of turquoise waves lapping against the shore.
Selinunte was the westernmost Greek colony in Sicily, on a territory with strong Punic influence and inhabited inland by the Elymians. Different sources agree about the Megarian origin of the colonies yet the dates are uncertain, hence the start of Selinunte is somewhere between 650 and 627 BC. The town was named after the wild parsley that one can find in the surrounding area.
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