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Agrigento

Agrigento

Agrigento rises on a ridge above the sea, its honey-hued buildings unfolding across the hills like a sunlit amphitheatre. Behind it, vineyards and almond groves stretch inland; below it, the ancient Valley of the Temples spills toward the coast in a sweep of Doric grandeur.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Valley of the Temples and Temple of Concordia.

Archaeological site
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The Valle dei Templi, or , is an archaeological site in Agrigento, Sicily. It is one of the most outstanding examples of ancient Greek art and architecture of Magna Graecia, and is one of the main attractions of Sicily.

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The is an ancient Greek temple of Magna Graecia in the in Agrigento on the south coast of , Italy. It is the largest and best-preserved Doric temple in Sicily and one of the best-preserved Greek temples in general, especially of the Doric order.

Archaeological site
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The Temple of Olympian Zeus in Agrigento, was the largest Doric temple ever constructed, although it was never completed and now lies in ruins. It stands in the with a number of other major Greek temples.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Porto Empedocle and Villaseta.

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is a port town close to the city of Agrigento, in the in , .

Village
is a village in , part of the municipality of Agrigento, with a population of roughly 6,300.

Village
Photo: Toni Pecoraro, Public domain.
is a seaside town and port South of Agrigento. It rises on the Akragas point, near the mouth of the Akragas river.

Agrigento

Latitude
37.3123° or 37° 18′ 44″ north
Longitude
13.5747° or 13° 34′ 29″ east
Population
55,300
Elevation
230 metres (755 feet)
IATA airport code
QAO
United Nations Location Code
IT AGR
Open location code
8F9M8H6F+WV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 67253674
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2525764
Wiki­data ID
Q13678
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Agrigento” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أغريجنتو”
  • Arabic: “جرجنت”
  • Arabic: “جِرْجَنْت”
  • Arabic: “كركنت”
  • Arabic: “كِرْكَنْت”
  • Armenian: “Ագրիջենդո”
  • Armenian: “Ագրիջենտո”
  • Asturian: “Agrigento”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aqricento”
  • Basque: “Agrigento”
  • Belarusian: “Агрыджэнта”
  • Bengali: “এগ্রিজেনেটু”
  • Breton: “Agrigento”
  • Bulgarian: “Агридженто”
  • Catalan: “Agrigent”
  • Cebuano: “Agrigento (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Agrigento”
  • Chechen: “Агридженто”
  • Chinese: “Agrigento”
  • Chinese: “阿格里琴坦”
  • Chinese: “阿格里真圖”
  • Chinese: “阿格里真托”
  • Corsican: “Agrigentu”
  • Corsican: “Girgenti”
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  • Czech: “Agrigento”
  • Danish: “Agrigento”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Agrigento”
  • Dutch: “Agrigento”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اجريجنتو”
  • Erzya: “Агридженто”
  • Esperanto: “Agrigento”
  • Esperanto: “Agriĝento”
  • Estonian: “Agrigento”
  • Finnish: “Agrigento”
  • French: “Agrigente”
  • Galician: “Agrigento”
  • Galician: “Agrixento”
  • Georgian: “აგრიჯენტო”
  • German: “Agrigent”
  • Greek: “Αγκριτζέντο”
  • Gujarati: “એગ્રીજેંટો”
  • Hebrew: “אגריג’נטו”
  • Hindi: “Agrigento”
  • Hindi: “एग्रीजेंटो”
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  • Irish: “Agrigento”
  • Irish: “Agrigentum”
  • Italian: “Agrigento”
  • Italian: “Girgenti”
  • Japanese: “アグリジェント”
  • Kannada: “ಅಗ್ರಿಜೆಂಟೋ”
  • Kazakh: “Агридженто”
  • Korean: “아그리젠토”
  • Kotava: “Agrigento”
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  • Latin: “Agrigentum”
  • Latvian: “Agridžento”
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  • Lithuanian: “Agridžentas”
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  • Macedonian: “Агриџенто”
  • Malay: “Agrigento”
  • Malayalam: “അഗ്രിജന്തോ”
  • Maltese: “Agrigento”
  • Marathi: “एग्रीजेंटो”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Agrigento”
  • Mingrelian: “აგრიჯენტო”
  • Moksha: “Агриджэнто”
  • Neapolitan: “Agrigento”
  • Northern Frisian: “Agrigent”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Agrigento”
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  • Ossetian: “Агридженто”
  • Pampanga: “Agrigento”
  • Persian: “آگریجنتو”
  • Piemontese: “Agrigent”
  • Polish: “Agrigento”
  • Polish: “Agrygent”
  • Portuguese: “Agrigento”
  • Romanian: “Agrigento”
  • Russian: “Агригент”
  • Russian: “Агридженто”
  • Russian: “Агриженто”
  • Russian: “Аргигенто”
  • Russian: “Джирдженти”
  • Russian: “Жирженти”
  • Sanskrit: “अग्रिजेंतो”
  • Sanskrit: “अग्रिजेन्तो”
  • Scots: “Agrigento”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Agrigento”
  • Serbian: “Агриђенто”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Agrigento”
  • Sicilian: “Girgenti”
  • Sinhala: “ඇග්‍රිජෙන්ටෝ”
  • Slovak: “Agrigento”
  • Slovenian: “Agrigento”
  • Spanish: “Agrigento”
  • Swahili: “Agrigento”
  • Swedish: “Agrigento”
  • Tagalog: “Agrigento”
  • Tamil: “அக்ரிகெண்டோ”
  • Tatar: “Агриҗенто”
  • Telugu: “అగ్రిజెంటో”
  • Thai: “อากรีเจนโต”
  • Tumbuka: “Agrigento”
  • Turkish: “Agrigento”
  • Twi: “Agrigento”
  • Ukrainian: “Агрідженто”
  • Ukrainian: “Аґрідженто”
  • Urdu: “ایگریجینتو”
  • Uzbek: “Agrigento”
  • Venetian: “Agrixento”
  • Veps: “Agridžento”
  • Vietnamese: “Agrigento”
  • Vlaams: “Agrigento”
  • Volapük: “Agrigento”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Agrigento”
  • Welsh: “Agrigento”
  • Western Armenian: “Ակրիճենթօ”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿格里真托”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿格里真圖”
  • “Agrigende”
  • “Agrigento”

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