santuario, Madonna Greca
At the southernmost tip of Italy, where the Ionian Sea meets an ancient coastline, stands the Santuario della Madonna Greca, a modern sanctuary built …
19 documented Magna Graecia sites across Italy, each with real history, a location, and (where available) a photo. A sample below; the full set travels with you offline in the Atika app.
At the southernmost tip of Italy, where the Ionian Sea meets an ancient coastline, stands the Santuario della Madonna Greca, a modern sanctuary built …
On a hillside above the Ionian coast, Bivongi, known in its earliest records by the Greek name Bobònges, preserves a medieval core that is remarkably …
This is a palazzo of the old school: three storeys, an irregular footprint, and a quiet internal courtyard. The perimeter walls are built of mixed sto…
This is an Attic black-figure kylix, a drinking cup of a type widely exported across the Mediterranean during the period of Magna Graecia. Its broad, …
The church of S. Nicolò e SS. Annunziata stands as a curious architectural palimpsest, its fabric speaking in several dialects of construction. The ma…
At the core of S. Nicola lies a muscular, straightforward structure: load-bearing stone walls, built of irregular limestone and marly limestone blocks…
AMBITO DI CONTESTO: Fascia Costiera Tortora-Scalea CARATTERIZZAZIONE DEL TERRITORIO: la città si dispone su un vasto promontorio che delimita a sud il…
On the ridge of a Calabrian hill, Ciminà, also known by its Greek-Calabrian name, Kymina, keeps its ancient form intact. This is a borgo of the Magna …
On the upper slopes of a Calabrian hill, San Lorenzo, known historically as Laurentum and, in the local Greek dialect of Bovesia, as Ajo Lavrendi or J…
The old town of Corigliano Calabro, now a hamlet of the larger municipality, sprawls across two distinct hilltops divided by a deep saddle. This awkwa…
The medieval street plan of this hilltop borgo remains perfectly legible, a spindle-shaped layout dominated by the feudal lord’s old residence and the…
The old heart of Crotone, once the Greek Kroton and later the Roman Croto, is a place where the city’s layered history is written in its streets. The …
The Temple of Concordia, an ancient Greek temple of Magna Graecia, stands in the Valle dei Templi in Agrigento on Sicily’s south coast. It is the larg…
At Paestum, in the Campania region of south-western Italy, the Temple of Athena stands as a Greek temple of Magna Graecia, built around 500 BC. Origin…
The First Temple of Hera at Paestum, also called the Basilica, is an archaic Doric Greek temple among the ruins of the ancient city of Paestum in Ital…
The Tavole Palatine are the remains of a 6th-century BC hexastyle peripteral Greek temple, part of Magna Graecia, dedicated to Hera and Apollo. Locate…
Paestum, on the Tyrrhenian coast, was a major city of Magna Graecia. Its ruins are famous for three ancient Greek temples in the Doric order, built be…
Porta Rosa, a 4th-century BC construction, is the earliest known example of a full-centred arch in Italy. It was discovered within the Greek archaeolo…
One of the largest archaeological parks in Europe, a whole Greek city left in ruins on the Sicilian coast. Selinunte was rich and quarrelsome, forever…
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