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Agrigento - The Valley of
Classicism
Situated in a beautiful
bay, on the promenade of San Leone, the hotel enables visitors to
admire the historical heart of Agrigento with the Valle dei Templi.
Agrigento, lying on the south
coast of the island, with the eyes turned towards the
African shores, maintains unsullied the fashion and the
grace of the Mediterranean locality, which was a crossroad
of different cultures: local, continental, Greek and North
African.
It was founded in 581 B. C. by colonists coming from Gela,
who called it Akragas; in a short time it grew in economic,
civil and military importance so much so that Imera, in
league with Syracuse, defeated the Carthaginian army in 480
B.C..
The most important architectural evidences, which put the
city in direct competition with the most important Greek
cities, date back to this epoch.
The city is divided into two zones: the modern urban
settlement and the "Valle dei templi", antique sacred
territory that is now become a zone of great historical and
archaeological interest. |
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