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Paestum
Ancient city · Italy
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 599 BC
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 40.423, 15.006
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient Greek city in present-day village Paestum, Italy
History
Paestum was a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, in Magna Graecia. The ruins of Paestum are famous for their three ancient Greek temples in the Doric order dating from about 550 to 450 BCE that are in an excellent state of preservation. The city walls and amphitheatre are largely intact, and the bottom of the walls of many other structures remain, as well as paved roads. The site is open to the public, and there is a modern national museum within it, which also contains the finds from the associated Greek site of Foce del Sele.