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Travel to Segesta, visa requirements / Get around / Segesta attractions and sightseeing / City tours / Shopping, Segesta souvenirs / Good restaurants and cheap meals / Segesta nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs. / Hotels, youth hostels, lodging / Get outSegesta[1] is the site of an ancient Graeco-Roman city on the Italian island of Sicily, some 74 km SW of Palermo.
Travel to Segesta - Visa Requirements
Tours and Getting around Segesta
Segesta tourist attractions and sightseeing
- the Doric temple - built 430-420 BCE, 61 m (190 feet) long, 26 m wide, built upon a platform of 4 steps, with a total of 36 Doric columns supporting the stone roof-frame of the structure (14 columns along the lengths of the building, 6 columns across front and back). The columns are of a "rough" finish because they were apparently never "fluted", the temple never reaching completion. The temple seems also to have lacked a roof over the cella (main chamber) in antiquity, rather uniquely - scholars are in disagreement as to whether the temple was deliberately planned this way, or just never completed.
- the Amphitheatre -
Segesta city tours
Segesta souvenirs and shopping
Segesta Restaurants: cheap, moderate and expensive
Segesta nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs
Segesta cheap and luxurious hotels, youth hostels and lodging
Get out
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