The true heart of the archaeological area of ​​Agrigento, the area of ​​the Valley of the Temples is a unique place to visit.

The Temple of Zeus or Jupiter Olimpico, of which survive today only the foundations and the main altar, was one of the greatest ancient Greek temples.

The oldest temple is is rather to Heracles or Hercules, while the best preserved is definitely the Temple of Concord.

Probably the most impressive Greek Doric temples come to our days after the Parthenon in Athens.

Art history and nature have made this place famous since ancient times, first with the classical era writers such as Pindar, Polybius, Diodorus of Sicily,

Then by historians and surveyors of the XVI and XVII century. such Fazello, Cluverio.

And ending with XVIII century artists and travelers as Houel, Denon, Brydone and above all Goethe.

He left to posterity memorable pages of the Grand Tour, he had in Agrigento and in its valley the most evocative stage.