Paestum is a small town at the Golf de Salerno. The station is located near the temple. As in Paestum is located next to each other are the three Greek temples (Dorian) better preserved in the world. And thanks to these archeological sites, here you can also other 4 a.m. to 5 p.m. star hotels for holiday, celebrate, and conferences, where it always guests who fitted the space of not only the high season periods. The fact that three temples were built here shows that was far from their Originally Paestum (550-450 BC) is a major center of trade and cultural exchanges, even about its strategic position near the mouth of the river Sele in the Gulf of Salerno.
Events and exhibitions festival in Paestum
> Paestum; > feast of the Annunziata, > Feast of the Madonna del Granato.
The places of the myth of Paestum
The ancient Poseidonia, a city in Campania in the Gulf of Salerno, was an important center of Magna Grecia, founded by Sybaris in 600 Bc. The late fifth century BC, Paestum was captured by the codes under which a period of prosperity and reached its largest territorial extent, in the year 273 BC the Roman colony, the name change to the current. During the imperial period Paestum began a long and gradual decline until the task was in the eighth century came the flooding of the area, the final blow against the Saracens in the ninth century AD treatment, AD is destroyed completely. Note the magnificent temple, which is still on the classical and the walls almost intact, Poseidonion, the Doric temple of Neptune, one of the finest classical temples have come down to us. More beautiful monuments: the Basilica, the Temple of Ceres, the Temple of Peace, the amphitheater, the theater, the Foro Italico and Heraeum Sele, an ancient Greek temple dedicated to Hera.
