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Roman, Greek and ClassicalSite Name: Temple of Demeter
Country: Italy
NOTE: This site is 23.066 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Sicily (Sicilia) Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Agrigento
Latitude: 37.299200N  Longitude: 13.603300E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
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3Ordinary
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4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Temple of Demeter
Temple of Demeter submitted by Armand : Temple (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Temple in Sicily (Sicilia)

The so-called Temple of Demeter (the remains of which are located below of the church of San Biagio ) can be dated between 480 and 470 B. C. This temple offers an interesting example of distylous building in antis, i.e.without an outer colonnade. It has a simple cella preceded by a pronaos (ante-room) with two columns. Still preserved from the original structure are the base (30 by 13 m approx and partly visible), the outer cella walls and the wall between the cella and the pronaos.

These remaing parts have been incorporated in the medieval church dedicated to St. Biagio. The beautiful water spouts in the shape of lion’s heads from this building can still be seen in the Regional Archaeological Museum of Agrigento in the room dedicated to architectural sculptures.

The Temple of Demeter in the classical period was part of a temenos, a sacred enclosure that included other adjacent structures, such as two small round altars with a central bothros or holy well. Inside, archaeologists found kernoi (ritual vessels linked to the cult of Persephone) and the remains of busts that must have represented Demeter
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Cyrene Temple of Demeter
Cyrene Temple of Demeter submitted by AlexHunger : Site in Libya: Cyrene Temple of Demeter to the west of the main settlement. Only 5 columns and a retaining wall of sorts survive. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cyrene Temple of Demeter
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Temple of Demeter
Temple of Demeter submitted by Armand : Information panel (Vote or comment on this photo)

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