Among the wonders of Sicily, just 15 minutes drive from Scopello, Segesta rises, dominating a vast territory in a strategic position. Founded according to legend by Alceste Egesta son of the Trojan, the 'old city Elimo settlement in the fifth century. struggled against Syracuse, allied with Carthage destroyed the rival Selinute who aspired to the conquest of its maritime emporium (Castellammare del Golfo), then submit it to the Romans and as a result of continued depredations, the Vandals and then by the Saracens in the Middle Ages it lost the name. On the slopes of Monte Barbaro outside the ancient town walls, with its Doric columns thirty-six, stands the Temple of Segesta, which can be dated in the last three decades of the fifth century BC, between 430 and 420 and the its "open structure" suggests that it was deliberately intended to give glory to a 'sacred area where rituals were held indigenous faith. Others argue that the construction remained incomplete because of the conflict with Selinus in 416 BC. On the height above the temple, located east of the acropolis, the theater is located, consists of a semicircular auditorium partially embedded in the rock, where, on hot Sicilian summers back to relive the great tragedies that bound the old. In the Mango, the Greek influence is the indigenous sanctuary, built in the sixth century aCAltro historic relic is the acropolis can be divided into two phases, located south of the private residential area, north of the agora. North Acropolis, where the theater are the ruins latest: the castle, the mosque and the church dates back to the twelfth century. Interesting summer theatrical events, with classic works in Latin, Greek, ecc.Links useful:
AREA OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SEGESTA 
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