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 The information about this location have been automatically translated with Microsoft Translator. Rank : 10.0 (average on 2 votes)Coordinates : 40.42371470293404, 15.005536562369157 ( Open in Google Maps) Subjects : The wonderful temples of Magna Graecia and in the adjacent museum: the Tomb of the Diver, the bronze vases from the Heroon and many other finds. The park includes another site (archaeological park of Velia) located in the hamlet of Velia of the municipality of Ascea (SA), or about 44 km from Paestum (SA), where you can visit the tower of Velia and other excavations and finds dating back to the same era.Recommended equipment : A wide angle may come in handy. Best months : spring-summerHow to get there : From Salerno take the A3 Salerno-Reggio Calabria towards Reggio C., then exit at Battipaglia and take the State Road 18 towards Agropoli (SA), continue for about 20 km going straight ahead even passing various roundabouts of small towns (in order: Bivio Cioffi, Bivio Santa Cecilia, Ponte Barizzo, Capaccio Scalo), arrived at the last roundabout of Capaccio Scalo take the Provincial Road 276 and pass the small town of Cafasso-borgo New, at this point you are a few hundred meters away, so just follow the signs to the archaeological site.Visits : There is a ticket for the entrance that also allows you to visit the Museum located a few steps away.Notes : ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE... it is the essence of archaeology and as historical anthropology, and of Paestum in particular. By discovering the architecture, art, rituals, culture of ancient Greece – a world so far from our way of living and thinking – we can realize the variety of human life in history. When, in the '700, the first travelers visited the site of Paestum, they did not know what to think of the Doric temples, their severe and archaic style. But precisely the otherness of these buildings, and of the community that built them, are the basis of the charm that the Magno-Greek site has exercised since then. The amazement experienced by eighteenth-century travelers in front of the testimonies of the classical world was destined to be repeated until the present: the sculpted frieze of the first temple of Hera on the Sele river, the Tomb of the Diver, the bronze vases from the Heroon ... works now on display in the museum that question and irritate the observer, speaking of a vanished world, "totally foreign" to our gaze, as Johann Wolfgang Goethe wrote. A world, however, that also reserves a message aimed at the future: the variety of forms of life, art, politics, thought, love that we find in history, demonstrates: another world is possible. | | Nearby:   Agropoli 8 km
 Castellabate 16 km
 Oasi WWF Serre-Persano 23 km
 Acciaroli 27 km
 Roscigno Vecchia 29 km
 Parco Regionale dei Monti Picentini 34 km
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