Agrigento

Agrigento (locally called Girgenti) is a city of 59 thousand¹ within its eponymous province, overlooking the southwest coast of the island of Sicilia,² in Italia.³ UNESCO honors as a World Heritage Site the classical remains. Among these are the foundations of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, one of the largest Greek temples; the Temple of Concord, said to be the best preserved Doric temple after the Parthenon of Athínai (Athens); residential remains extending into the Roman period; and cemeteries extending into the Christian period.⁴

External references

Temple of Concord, Agrigento, Agrigento Province, island of Sicilia, Italia

Footnotes

1. 2011 figure from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Italy, accessed December 19, 2017.
2. Sicily in English.
3. Italy in English.
4. UNESCO, World Heritage Sites (Firefly Books, 2010).