Doric Temple of Segesta
Photo: Ignazio Caloggero
Place part of the multi-serial site: Segesta
The prevailing hypothesis is that it was never finished, as there are no remains of the cell or the roof or the grooves of the columns: its completion would have been prevented by wars. Alternatively, it was thought that the structure could be used for indigenous rites or that the cell and the roof were built in wood. Traces of the cell have recently been found, buried inside the temple, along with traces of previous constructions (which would suggest that the temple was built on an even older sacred place). It is a hexastyle peripteral temple (ie with six columns on the shorter side, not fluted). On the long side it has instead fourteen columns (therefore 36 in total). The temple was built during the last thirty years of the fifth century BC, on the top of a hill west of the city, outside its walls. Due to its manufacture and its current state of conservation, it can be considered one of the most beautiful temples of antiquity.
Multimedia map with all the sites involved: Segesta Archive
Card insertion: Ignazio Caloggero
Informational contributions : Web, Sicily Region
Photo: Ignazio Caloggero
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