Segesta

A many-faced town, vanish in the thin air.

Segesta was probably a Phoenician settlement. It stood on Barbaro mountain from where it looked the west Sicilian valley. in 409 b.C. Carthaginians, tore up the Greek Selinunte together with the people fro Segesta then occupied the town of Segesta itself and turned its name from Ecestas in Segesta. The town was many times attacked: in 307 b.C. Agatocle the tyrant, in order to punish the town had its most important citizens executed and turned again the name in Diceopoli that means the town of the just.

Segesta was probably a Phoenician settlement. It stood on Barbaro mountain from where it looked the west Sicilian valley. in 409 b.C. Carthaginians, tore up the Greek Selinunte together with the people fro Segesta then occupied the town of Segesta itself and turned its name from Ecestas in Segesta. The town was many times attacked: in 307 b.C. Agatocle the tyrant, in order to punish the town had its  most important citizens executed and turned again the name in Diceopoli that means the town of the just. At the beginning of the III c. the tow was free again and took proudly its former name. They allied with the Romans against Carthaginians for the first of the Punic wars. By the end of this mission they were formally considered as an independent people. Many events both historical and political, made the town were abandoned and its existence was discovered only by the historian Tommaso Fasello (1498-1570). The main building found in the area are a Temple and a Theatre; this is traced back to the IIIc b.C.. It guested up to 5000 people and is still used today  intended not only to classical dramas, but even to concerts, and cabaret. The temple is older than it and date back to the Vc b.C. It seams to be a Doric one globally but there were number of questions about it since it lack of specific elements like de God cell. Has been accepted it could have been left incomplete.  Really nearby the area, only few minutes walking more inside the hills and out from the old town walls have been discovered by several excavations the remains of a Saudis necropoli and a Moschea besides a second temple probably wider than the first one. There are even the remains of a  Norman cathedral and of a Swabian castle.