Temple of Hercules

Valley of the Temples & Beach Time!

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September 30th 2011
Today we hopped in the car bright and early for a 2 hour drive to Agrigento, a seaside city in the heart of southern Sicily. Agrigento is the site where the Greeks landed and created a new community of temples, homes, shops, roadways, bridges and underground aquifers and cemeteries while they tried to conquer the island of Sicily from the Normans. The ruins are very well preserved high up on a h ... read more

Europe » Italy » Sicily

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more