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  Sicily's history, myths, lands, and people, and much more, can be found in the Province of Agrigento, and it is impossible not to begin our journey at its administrative centre Arkagas. This was founded by the Greek settlers of Gela and was exulted by the great poet Pindaro in "la piu' bella dei mortali". The story banks of the Platani still pass near the Valley of the Temples, a magical spot where prehistory and Hellenistic civilization is superimposed by Roman civilization up to the early Christian era and beyond. The magnificence of the temple of Olympian Jupiter, the surviving columns of the Temple of Castor and Pollux, the remains of the temple of Hercules, that of Concord or that of Juno represent an ensemble in which history re-emerges from the silence of the centuries.

 

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