There’s a ridge along the hills in Agrigento where the Greeks built temples to their gods.
All but one lie in ruins, like this one, and some are no more than piles of (rather large) stones. The island has endured large earthquakes over the eons, but that’s not the cause of their collapse. The demolitions were at the hands of various conquering armies.
This is the only temple that was spared being razed. Built between 440 and 430 BC by the Greeks, and later taken over by the Romans, it was recommissioned into a Christian basilica in the 6th century, AD of course, when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
