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Valley of the Temples – Agrigento

Tempio di Giunone: it rises solitary and imposing on the hill

overlooking the Valley. Built towards the middle of the 5th century.
BC, repeats the shapes of the temple of Concordia. It retains all 34
columns, with their architrave on the north side and part of the
east side. The boulders of the cell are reddened by the fire of 406

BC

Temple of Concordia: Erected between 450 and 440 BC (the only
one remaining intact), a Peripheral exostyle with 34 perimeter

columns and 4 internal columns adorning the Naos, the Temple
owes its conservation to the re-adaptation to a Christian Church in
the sixth century. This readjustment involved alterations and

destruction since the Temple had to be deprived of all that was
pagan (statues, high reliefs, polychromies); in addition, the walls
that delimited the cell were demolished, the orientation reversed

and arches and niches opened. In 1748 the original structures
were restored.