As English author and historian Douglas Sladen once said, “If you want to understand ancient Greece, come to Sicily.” Indeed, there were once more Greeks living in the colonies of southern Italy and Sicily – known as Magna Graecia – than actually living in Greece! Join your driver to travel across the island to one of the Magna Graecia’s best preserved temple complexes: The Valley of the Temples outside Agrigento.
Our guide will meet you there for an in-depth exploration of these eight temples and to hear the amazing story the temples, tombs and ruins tell: from the almost entirely intact Temple of Concordia to the Temple of Hera that suffered in a medieval earthquake and from the Temple of Juno on its hilltop perch to the unfortunate Temple of Zeus, dismantled by greedy builders over the centuries for its stones.
After admiring the statuary and pottery of the Agrigento Archeological Museum, have your driver recommend a great spot along the Agrigento coast to sample some fresh-off-the-hook seafood and regional delicacies, before returning to the hotel.
