A single Doric temple stands alone on a windswept Sicilian hill, perfectly proportioned and never finished, its columns unfluted, its roof never built. Segesta was not even a Greek city but an Elymian one that borrowed Greek style, probably to impress allies during a war with neighbouring Selinunte. Up the hill, a Greek theatre faces not a stage but the landscape itself, hills rolling to the sea. There is rarely anyone here: the wind and the temple, and the sense of a building interrupted almost 2,400 years ago and simply left.
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