Guide to the Valley of the Temples 

The guide to the Valley of the Temples is part of the project "GUIDE TO THE UNESCO HERITAGE OF SICILY", a project to promote the territory through the creation of guides to the UNESCO sites of Sicily. For each Unesco site there is a free guide available online.

Here is what you will find by exploring the various areas of the guide through the menu you see above:

1) Descriptive cards of over 30 monuments, substantially all the monuments mentioned by the Unesco document of recognition of the archaeological site "Valley of the Temples" plus other monuments falling within the archaeological area concerned.

2) Detailed sheet and related documents relating to Unesco recognition;

3) A multimedia gallery containing hundreds of images.

4) Interactive and geocoded map with all the monuments cataloged and geocoded

The characteristics of the guide:

Wiki: the multimedia gallery can be integrated with user images;

Data Base: information in the form of a database with a semantic approach (search by fields and keywords);

Multi-device: (PC, Tablet, Smartphone);

Geospatial:  Information on geocoded google maps;

Integrated with Social Networks

Multilingual: through “Google Translator the guide is available in about 80 different languages.

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Plan of the Opera:

First Group: Temple of Vulcan

Temple of Vulcan

Second Group: Area of ​​the Sanctuary of the Chthonic divinities

 Garden of Kolymbetra, Sanctuary of the Chthonic divinities, Temple of Castor and Pollux, Gate V, Temple of Jupiter, Lower Agora, Gymnasium

Third Group: Area of ​​the Archaeological Museum of San Nicola

Bouleuterion, Temple of Isis, Upper Agora, Oratory of Falaride, Ekklesiasterion, Church of San Nicola, Archaeological Museum of San Nicola, Hellenistic-Roman quarter

Fourth Group: Area of ​​the Archaeological Park

Tomb of Theron, Temple of Hercules, Villa Aurea and Porta IV, Fragapane Catacombs, Roman Necropolis, Hellenistic-Roman Necropolis, Temple of Concordia, Byzantine Hypogea, Temple of Juno

Fifth Group: Area of ​​the Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone

Temple of Demeter (Church of San Biagio), Rock Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone, Gate I, Bulwark in Tenaglia

Sixth Group: Punic Quarter

Punic Quarter, Porta II

Seventh Group: Other archaeological areas outside the walls

Walloon Christian Basilica of San Biagio, Temple of Aesculapius

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Guide to the Valley of the Temples
© Helios Study Center

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