Ancient Paestum

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Paestum

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Paestum - Agora: 40.423347, 15.005329

Paestum - Forum: 40.421501, 15.005425

Via Sacra et habitations: 40.420603, 15.003934

Temple d Athéna, sanctuaire nord: 40.424180, 15.005929

Basilique, temple d Héra de Paestum: 40.419410, 15.005447

Temple de Neptune à Paestum: 40.420121, 15.005425

	Paestum - Agora Agora
	Paestum - Forum Forum
	Via Sacra et habitations Via Sacra et habitations
	Temple d Athéna, sanctuaire nord Sanctuaire septentrional Temple d'Athéna
	Basilique, temple d Héra de Paestum Temple d'Héra, basilique
	Temple de Neptune à Paestum Temple de Poséidon

Resources about Paestum

Website of the Ministry of Culture : www.museopaestum.beniculturali.it
Paestum Tourism Agency, information, fares and schedules : www.infopaestum.it
Independent website : paestumsites.it
Page Wikipedia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paestum
Virtual reconstruction of Paestum : wonderland.dia.unisa.it/projects/paestumgate/index_it.html

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The via Sacra, borrowed during religious processions, is 9 feet wide, paved with large blocks of limestone that are marked by the traces of the passage of carts. Paved by the Romans, however, it dates from the Greek era. …

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Comitium

The forum is a rectangular area built by the Romans shortly after 273 BC, in the southern part of the agora of the Greek city. It held the political, religious and social life of the colony. It has several …

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The agora, the civil heart of the Greek city, is located between the north and south sanctuaries. The buildings date back to the oldest in the 6th century BC. The Romans made the southern part of the agora the …

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Le temple d’Athéna

This sacred area, limited to the south by a path separating it from the agora, was occupied since the first generation of settlers by an archaic temple (about 580 BC) whose remains are still visible, including …

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Temple d’Héra, basilique

It is the oldest of the three Doric temples, dating from the third quarter of the sixth century BC.
It was improperly called “basilica” since the eighteenth century, because both the lack of pediments, the odd number …

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Temple de Neptune

Close to the previous “basilica”, the so-called temple of Neptune (sometimes referred to as Heraion II in the past), on a small elevation that makes it even more imposing, is one of the three best preserved temples …

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The oldest remains of the city are tombs, northwest and northeast of the city, and the sanctuary of Hera, a few kilometers north, at the mouth of the Sele river.

The central districts were from the beginning dedicated to …

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Ancient Paestum

Resources about Paestum

Via Sacra and homes

Paestum Forum

Agora (Poseidonia)

Temple of Athena and North Sanctuary

Basilica, Temple of Hera

Temple of Neptune

Archaeological site of Paestum