Identifier: southernitalysic00karl (find matches)
Title: Southern Italy and Sicily, with excursions to Malta, Sardinia, Tunis, and Corfu : handbook for travellers
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker London : Dulau New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ut monotonous district: cross the railway at the S.E. angle of thetown; 2 M. farther on, between two mills, cross the Modione; 2^/4^ M.the road to Partanna diverges on the left; 1 M. farther on the high-road to Sciacca bends to the left (comp. p. 330), while a fleld-roaddiverges on the right. The Selinus road leads straight on towards theS., and 2^4 M. farther on turns to the right and passes the ruinedtemples on the E. hill (p. 323), near which is the large Casa Florio(good wine). After wet weather, the valley between this hill andthe Acropolu on the W. hill is very marshy and can be crossed bythe carriage-road only. The carriage should be engaged to drive to the Acropolis, which shouldbe visited first; then if time (1 hr.) and strength permit the Necropolis,to the W., beyond the Modione (p, 323), may be inspected ^ and finally weproceed to the temples on the E. hill, where the carriage waits at the CasaFlorio. The company of a guide or custodian is needless, as our Map i tScdfLCca.1
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1» ■- to Trapani. SELINUS. 26. Route. 321 will be found quite sufficient, especially as a path made by Prof. Salinas(p. 2G6j winds through the ruins to all the points of interest on the E. hill.None of the buildings is enclosed in any way. (Good walkers may go onfrom the Kecropolis towards the W., crossing the Modione, to Campobello(p. 324).J A custodian (Cuatode dei Monumenti) will be found at the E.temples, and at the Acropolis. A room (sala dei visitatori) in the Casadella Commissione (Torre di PoUuce), on the Acropolis contains a planof Selinus for the use of visitors; but no refreshments are to be had andthere are no facilities for spending the night here. — If a stay of somedays is contemplated, Prof. Salinas, at Palermo (p. 296), should be con-sulted beforehand. ^Selinus, among whose ruins are the grandest ancient temples inEurope, was founded in B.C. 628 by colonists from Megara Hyblaeaunder Pammilus, and was the westernmost settlement of the Hel-lenes in Sicily. On an em

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