SEGESTA

(85 km away) It was the most important city of the Elimi, a mixed population of Sicans and Anatolians to whom Ionian Greek immigrants were later added.

It was the eternal rival of Selinunte and this led, after ups and downs for the two cities, to the destruction of both. There remains, as a vestige of its past splendour, the magnificent and solitary temple built outside the city walls, an admirable example of Doric style, where all traces of the cella, that is the innermost part of a temple, are completely missing, which led scholars to believe that it is a pseudo-templar peristyle in the shape of a Greek temple, which served to give nobility to an outdoor and temporary place of worship. Proceeding along an ancient route, you reach the theatre, a large semicircle dug into the bare rock with a diameter of 63 metres.