Ancient Greek ruins in Sicily?

[kacierose]

Sorry for being a bit MIA while on tour!! But the history nerd in me is living for this 😂

[grantottero]

As an Italian I appreciated your correct use of "Brava" (not "Bravo", which is masculine) for the feminine grammatical gender!
👍👏👏❤

[intreoo]

The ancient Greeks established colonies across the Mediterranean and that included Sicily. Really fascinating how their ruins are still so well preserved!

[xanthippikipou]

One of my favourite places on earth, kisses from Greece ❤

[ashleybarber]

So cool! I hope to take one of your tours one day!
❤ from Dallas, Texas

[pile]

And all those temples where even brightly colored back then!

[grantottero]

Of course! So many were the cities founded by the Greek in peninsular Southern Italy, that they called it "The Greater Greece" (Latin: "Magna Graecia") and they coined the word "Italiotai" applying not to all the inhabitants of peninsular Italy but only to ethnic-Greek ones... Nor was the situation so much different in the island of Sicily (Syracuse, Messane, Katane Akragas were only some of the many Greek cities: one of Greek historians called Akragas = Agrigentum "the most beautiful city ever built by men"). In a similar way to "Italiotai", "Sikiliotai" was the word for the Greek in Sicily..
---- EDIT: However, I think Segesta was founded by the Elymians, not by the Greek. Anyhow, they copied many features of Greek culture (for instance: the shape of the temple), just as all ethnicities come in contact with the Greek did (Elymians, Siculian, Etruscan, Roman ... and so on).

[m.s.]

I was in Sardinia in the end of march…. The roman temples were so amazing… and they aren’t even the oldest ruins in sardina… there are even ruins from 1400 b.c.

[Jossievfx]

I live in sicily was there on a school trip whit my grade like two years ago in 7th grade i think (2nd of middle school in italy)
And me and my classmates could not give a shit about the amphitheatre because they made us go all the way up there without a school bus, the school bus dropped us at like 1 hour and a half distance and It was flaming hot, so i have only a negative memory of It lol

[Spiroslask]

The Greeks created the known world we are the cornerstone of humanity. Politics, Math, science, astrology but that’s not just all our grammar is across the world. Used in medical terms cities named after Greek cities we are everywhere 🇬🇷 do not forget there are inventions used current day that come from classical Greece about 3, 000 years ago. long live Hellas long live Eleftheria🇬🇷🏛️ Greece will always be an Empire at heart always.