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Selinunte
Sign in to savethumb|300px|Plan of ancient Selinunte showing ancient coastline
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Selinunte
- Ancient site.image
- Selinunte-pjt4.jpg
- Ancient site.alt
- The columns of the Temple of Hera were re-erected, but most of the roof is missing.
- Ancient site.caption
- The Temple of Hera at Selinunte (Temple E)
- Ancient site.map_type
- Italy
- Ancient site.location
- Marinella di Selinunte, Province of Trapani, Sicily, Italy
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.built
- 628 BC
- Ancient site.abandoned
- Approximately 250 BC
- Ancient site.epochs
- Archaic Greece to Hellenistic period
- Ancient site.management
- Soprintendenza BB.CC.AA. di Trapani
- Ancient site.website
- Parco Archeologico di Selinunte
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Castelvetrano
- Area
- 500
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Founded by
- Megara Hyblaea
- Employees
- 62
- Official website
- selinunte.gov.it
- Image
- Sicily Selinunte Temple E (Hera).JPG
- Significant event
- Battle of Selinus
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- Commons category
- Selinunte
- inception
- 0651-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 0250-01-01
- topic's main category
- Category:Selinunte
- Commons gallery
- Selinunte
- culture
- Ancient Greece
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- native label
- Σελινοΰς
- phone number
- +39 092446540092446277
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- fax number
- +39-0924-46540
- postal code
- 91022
- visitors per year
- 204397
- street address
- Piazzale Iole Bovio Marconi - Fraz. Marinella Di Selinunte 1, 91022 Castelvetrano
- has facility
- parking area
- Wi-Fi access
- gratis
- collection or exhibition size
- 500
- P12749
- Zaprešić
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- History
- The Sicilian Expedition
- Captured by Carthage
- Destruction
- Archaeological remains
- The Acropolis
- Manuzza Hill
- Agora
- The East Hill
- Gaggera Hill with the sanctuary of the Malophoros
- The Necropoleis
- Cave di Cusa
- Coinage
- Art and other discoveries from Selinus
- Metopes of Selinus (gallery)
- Terracotta statuettes (gallery)
- General gallery
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|300px|Plan of ancient Selinunte showing ancient coastline
Selinunte ( , ; ; ; ) was a rich and extensive ancient Greek city of Magna Graecia on the south-western coast of Sicily in Italy. It was situated between the valleys of the Cottone and Modione rivers. It now lies in the of Castelvetrano, between the of Triscina di Selinunte in the west and Marinella di Selinunte in the east.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Selinunte” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (52)
On the map
3 mapped locations