Panorama Photo

Paestum 360°.
This time we leave aside Byron and follow the footsteps of Goethe. Goethe arrived in Paestum in March 1787 and wrote in his "Italienische Reise":
« Endlich, ungewiss, ob wir durch Felsen oder Trümmer führen, konnten wir einige große länglich-viereckige Massen, die wir in der Ferne schon bemerkt hatten, als überbliebene Tempel und Denkmale einer ehemals so prächtigen Stadt unterscheiden. »

And Paestum a magnificent city it had been really.
Paestum was a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea in Magna Graecia. After its foundation by Greek colonists under the name of Poseidonia, it was eventually conquered by the Lucanians and later the Romans. The Lucanians renamed it to Paistos and the Romans gave the city its current name.

The ruins of Paestum are notable for their three ancient Greek temples which are of considerable dimensions (among the greatest of all) and in a very good state of preservation. In the pano you see two temples. The third is in a different area.