Selinunte Travel Guide

 MikeAtSea Says:  A small Museum can be visited at the Southern Area of Selinunte. Here one can find a small collection of items that have been excavated near by. The main collection of artefacts found at the antiquity site can be find in various museum around Sicily the main one being the... 

 MikeAtSea Says:  The Greeks had a very eloquent name for the areas used for burying and venerating the dead, calling them necropolises, in other words city of the dead. In Selinunte the necropolises have only been partial excavated because they are often situated on private property. However... 

 MikeAtSea Says:  In the pronaos of Temple A it is possible to see floor mosaics from the Punic ear, depicting Tanit the Phoenician goddess of fertility, the caduceaus and a bull’s head surrounded by laurel wealth. 

 MikeAtSea Says:  The name travellers house has only been used in the twentieth century as reference to the building that one can see at the Southern tip of the Selinunte Acropolis right on the edge of the cliff overlooking the sea. The name comes from the fact that the building was often... 

 MikeAtSea Says:  The Southern Area is a pretty garden surrounding it is an open-air Antiquarium. One can find measuring tables for dry food, clay vases, anchors and other items simply lying around in the garden. 

 MikeAtSea Says:  Temple D was only build twenty years after Temple C at a time that appears to be the most important architectural time of Selinunte. It is presumed that the temple was dedicated to Athena, due to its proximity to the temple of Apollo. The layout of the temples is very... 

 MikeAtSea Says:  The oldest, biggest and most important religious building of the Acropolis dating to the mid sixth century BC, one believes that the temple was dedicated to Apolo. It is 63.70 meters long, 24 meters wide and the naos measures 41.53 x 10.40 meters. The fourteen re-erected... 

 MikeAtSea Says:  This is another religious building and one of the most recent built on the Acropolis. Of harmonious and perfect forms it consisted of a hexastyle peripteral temple measuring 40.24 x 16.23 meters at the stylobate consisting of 36 columns. 

 MikeAtSea Says:  A religious building dating to the first half of the fifth century it is like Temple A one of the most recent buildings of the Acropolis. A peripteral temple with 6 x 14 columns, however only the base remains. 

 MikeAtSea Says:  The remains of the walls surrounding the Acropolis of Selinunte send out a strong message, marking out the citadel and being well visible even from a distance. The walls that one can see today are not those of the archaic-classical city. One knows very little about the... 

 MikeAtSea Says:  Begun in the sixth century BC, it was dedicated to Zeus. The work continued for about a century. The town’s main religious building, it measures 110.36 x 50.10 meters at the stylobate. An octastyle peripteral temple with 17 columns at the side. By glancing at the this temple... 

 MikeAtSea Says:  The oldest of the temples on the Eastern Hill, it was built around the mid 6th century BC dedicated to Athena or Dionysus. A peripteral temple with 4 x 14 columns over 9 meters high. It is the smallest of the temples on the Eastern hill. This type of temple is characterised... 

 MikeAtSea Says:  Temple E is the only one of the gigantic temples of Selinunte to have been almost entirely re-erected and partially rebuilt. Thus, it dominates not only the Eastern Hil but the whole park. When visiting this temple one should not forget that it is only a partial... 

 hquittner Says:  This restored temple of 38 (15x6) Doric columns was erected and topped by an architrave and bits of freize with triglyphs(some metopes that were found are safely in Palermo).The columns are fluted and taper toward the tops. The whole stands on a stepped platform. (Our... 

 effeti Says:  very little but.... very old bridge, just outside the north gate of the "new" walls of selinunte (dating 4th century BC).....So massive fortifications, but they were not able to save the town fron the attacks from Chartago.... 

 effeti Says:  Many of the buildings of the acropolis (= high town) are still "readable". And the streets, too.... like this piece of main street, that seems to dive in the mediterranean!Note that the acropolis has its own temples, but it stands on a different hill in respect of the... 

 effeti Says:  What you can see today was rebuild about a century ago with the bites and pieces found in the place... and it is always discussed if this is a correct way to approach ancient ruins.Whatever you may think, in my opinion this is one of the best greek temples in the world......... 

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