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Skip the ticket queue and step directly onto the UNESCO-listed ridge where Greek settlers built their most ambitious monuments, 2,500 years ago and still standing.
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The Temple of Concordia is so structurally intact that 6th-century Christians converted it into a church. Look closely and you can still see where they cut arched openings into its ancient walls.
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The Temple of Juno sits at the ridge's eastern edge, its honey-coloured columns scorched red on one side. The mark of a Carthaginian attack in 406 BC that the stone never forgot.
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Your audio guide in 8 languages fills in what the ruins alone can't tell you: the rivalries, myths, and engineering decisions behind every column and courtyard you pass.
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End inside the Treasures of Italy exhibition, where the jewellery, coins, and sculptures excavated from this valley show you what these temples looked like when they were alive.
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Choose to add the Kolymbethra Gardens, a lush ancient garden tucked within the valley, or include a Pemcard to have a photo from the day printed and mailed as a real postcard from the site.
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Skip the ticket queue and step directly onto the UNESCO-listed ridge where Greek settlers built their most ambitious monuments, 2,500 years ago and still standing.
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The Temple of Concordia is so structurally intact that 6th-century Christians converted it into a church. Look closely and you can still see where they cut arched openings into its ancient walls.
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The Temple of Juno sits at the ridge's eastern edge, its honey-coloured columns scorched red on one side. The mark of a Carthaginian attack in 406 BC that the stone never forgot.
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Your audio guide in 8 languages fills in what the ruins alone can't tell you: the rivalries, myths, and engineering decisions behind every column and courtyard you pass.
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End inside the Treasures of Italy exhibition, where the jewellery, coins, and sculptures excavated from this valley show you what these temples looked like when they were alive.
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Choose to add the Kolymbethra Gardens, a lush ancient garden tucked within the valley, or include a Pemcard to have a photo from the day printed and mailed as a real postcard from the site.
