PAESTUM 2500 YEARS-OLD HISTORY IN 90 MINUTES

PAESTUM 2500 YEARS-OLD HISTORY IN 90 MINUTES

Giuliana Tocco, former head of Salerno Archaeological State Office

What pushed the Greeks from Sybaris, the richest and most powerful colony of the Magna Grecia, to found a new city in the plain located south of Salerno? Which shape did they give the city that they called Poseidonia? The answers come from the city’s extraordinary monuments, first of all the three great temples in the Doric order - outstanding examples of the Greek Architecture and the only ones in their kind for their preservation status - as well as its towered walls still preserved along the whole boundary.