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Tour guide Metapontum: Impressive Greek Ruins along the Basilicata's coast
Duration
2 hours
Overview
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Metapontum means: "Between two rivers", the Bradano and the Basento, in the heart of Magna Grecia, a fraction of the municipality of Bernalda, near Matera.
The guided tour of the Archaeological Park includes the monumental remains of the urban sanctuary dedicated to Apollo Licio and the adjoining agora.
The sacred area contains four temples: the oldest, dedicated to Athena, founded at the beginning of the sixth century. B.C.; the temples of Apollo and Hera built in 570 BC, all in Doric style; around 470 B.C. the monumental Ionic temple dedicated to Aphrodite was built.
The visit includes the Archaeological Park, the National Museum of Metapontino with findings from prehistory to late antiquity and the extra-urban Temple of Hera, better known as the Palatine Tables an imposing temple with Doric columns, 12 columns on the long side and 6 on the short one, made in the late sixth century BC and placed near a sacralized spring as was used in the Greek world.
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