Agrigento - Valley of the Temples

Saturday we drove a long stretch of the Southern coast of Sicily to the town of Agrigento.

Agrigento is most famous for a series of ancient Greek temples, built around the year 600BC. The largest and best surviving of which is the Temple di Concordia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valle_dei_Templi

Temple of the Dioscuri (above)

Remains of the Temple of Heraclese (above)

The view of the Temple of Concordia from outside our hotel balcony, along with the ubiquitous lemon trees.

http://www.hotelvillaathena.it/

The valley is absolutely gorgeous:

Temple of Heracles in the distance (above)

Sunday we drive back to Catania, where we flew into Sicily from London. Catania is one of the largest cities of Sicily, but it's not pretty. We're basically going there so that we'll be close the the airport for our flight out to Naples come Monday morning.