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Agrigento. Sicily. Italy. View of the reconstructed northwest corner of the Temple of Castor and Pollux (Dioscuri) at the Valley of the Temples. Dating from the 5th century BC, the Temple originally had 34 local shell limestone columns in a peripteral hexastyle plan of 6 by 13 columns. Four columns and portion of the architraves were reconstructed around 1850 with elements incorporated form other nearby buildings. The Temple is located in the Sanctuary of the Chthonic Divinities.
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