{"id":766,"date":"2025-03-12T03:20:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T07:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/?p=766"},"modified":"2025-03-12T03:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T07:20:48","slug":"valley-of-the-temples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/?p=766","title":{"rendered":"Valley of the Temples"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4922-1-1024x819.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4922-1-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4922-1-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4922-1-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4922-1-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4922-1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Temple of Hera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a ridge along the hills in Agrigento where the Greeks built temples to their gods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4927-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4927-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4927-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4927-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4927.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>All but one lie in ruins, like this one, and some are no more than piles of (rather large) stones. The island <em>has<\/em> endured large earthquakes over the eons, but that\u2019s not the cause of their collapse. The demolitions were at the hands of various conquering armies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4939-1024x577.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4939-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4939-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4939-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4939-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4939.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Temple of Concordia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4942-1-1024x731.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4942-1-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4942-1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4942-1-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4942-1-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4942-1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s 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\u2019s not the cause of their collapse. The demolitions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-sicily-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}