UNESCO World Heritage · Agrigento, Sicily
Visiting the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento
Opening hours, tickets, how to get there and what to see in one of the largest archaeological parks in the world — with a free narrated audio guide that walks you temple by temple.
The Valley's free audio guide
An audio guide that actually guides you, step by step
No lists of dates read out by a synthetic voice. A professionally written and performed narration tells you about each temple while you are standing in front of it, takes you round in the right order and tells you where to go next. On your own phone, with your own headphones, with no guide to book.
- A voice that walks with youProfessional narration at every temple: the myths, rites and daily life of ancient Akragas — not just dates.
- Guides you along the whole route11 stops in sequence, with two ready-made itineraries: Porta Quinta or Sant'Anna entrance.
- Map and GPS positionYou always know where you are and what the next stop is. Skip and go back whenever you like.
- On Android and iPhoneInstalls on your phone like an app, straight from the browser. No store, free trial.
100% free · No app store download · Works offline
The best-preserved Greek temples in the world
The Valley of the Temples, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997, spreads across the hill of ancient Akragas, in Agrigento. It is one of the largest and most evocative archaeological parks in the Mediterranean, with a row of Doric temples overlooking the sea.
Built between the 6th and 5th centuries BC, the temples tell of the power of one of the richest cities of the Greek world, which the poet Pindar called "the most beautiful of mortals".
Through fires, earthquakes and conversions into Christian churches, some temples collapsed and others survived. Walking among their columns today is like crossing two thousand five hundred years of history.
Discover the full history of the Valley →1.300
hectares of archaeological park
~10
Temples and sanctuaries
1 mln
Visitors per year
2.500
Years of history
Life in Akragas
A day in ancient Akragas
Ancient Akragas was a rich and populous city of merchants, farmers, artisans and athletes. Life revolved around the agora, the temples and the great religious festivals.
The wealthiest citizens lived in proverbial luxury, while thousands of slaves — many of them Carthaginian prisoners — worked on the temple sites and in the fields.
Women played a central role in the cults of Demeter and Kore, the goddesses of the earth, celebrated in the sanctuaries on the western part of the hill.
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The unmissable temples
Opening hours, tickets, how to get there and what to see in one of the largest archaeological parks in the world — with a free narrated audio guide that walks you temple by temple.
Temple of Concordia
The best-preserved Doric temple of the Greek world, saved by its conversion into a Christian basilica.
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The temple on the eastern cliff, its columns still scarred by the fire of the Carthaginian sack.
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Temple of Zeus and the Telamons
The ruins of the largest temple of the Greek world and its stone giants almost eight metres tall.
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