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After Siracusa, we drove west across Sicily to Agrigento. And again struggled with navigation. Most road signs again had several towns listed, and often not any that we recognized. We’d drive into a vlllage to find no road signs at all. One village, we kept to what we thought was the main road but found ourselves headed downhill on a narrow road of hairpin turns making it impossible to turn around. The road kept getting narrower and rougher, then around one turn was a parked van for an electrical company facing uphill. A relief, because I figured if they had come from below—there had to be a way through.
Valle dei Templi (Valley of the Temples) is just west of the town of Agrigento. As you can see it’s not actually a valley, rather a ridge with seven Greek temples constructed during the 6th & 5th centuries BC. We stayed in a small hotel built around a 16th century watch tower which had been constructed for protection against Turkish invasions. Our window looked across to this ridge, with the main temple illuminated at night.
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