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Capaccio

Capaccio is a city of 22 thousand1 centered in hills and a plain above the Tyrrhenian coast, south of Napoli, in Salerno Province in the Campania Region of Italia.2 The ruins of Paestum are within Capaccio's municipal limits. Paestum is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site and has three temples dating from the sixth and centuries BCE.3

top: blue-white sky; middle: a temple with numerous flared columns topped by flat stones; foreground: yellow grass with a little rubble
First Temple of Hera, Paestum ruins, Capaccio, Salerno Province, Campania Region, Italia

Footnotes

1. 2011 figure from the side bar of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agropoli, accessed February 16, 2017.
2. Italy in English.
3. UNESCO, World Heritage Sites (Firefly Books, 2010).