Paestum, Greek Temples

Even before we were told their occupation, it looked as if these people belonged right here, in Paestum's Basilica. This retired English archaeologist and his wife (the editor of an archaeology journal), told us these Greek ruins in Paestum (The Basilica, the Tempio di Nettuno, and the Tempio di Cerere), dating from 600 BC, and those in Agrigento, Sicily (Valle dei Templi, just south of Agrigento, has eight sacred buildings), dating from 700 BC, are about the best Greek remnants we will see anywhere, including in Greece.

We had visited Agrigento a few years earlier, and later this same year we visited remainders of ancient architecture in Turkey, in Greece, and on the Greek Islands. We completely agree, these ruins are excellent.

In our travels we have found some of the most interesting Roman ruins are in Trier, Germany, in Carcassonne, Arles, and Nimes, in Southern France, and in Pula, Yugoslavia. Some very fascinating Greek ruins are found in Agrigento, Taormina, and Siracusa, on Sicily, and here, at Paestum, on the main-land of Italy.