Valley of Temples

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Leaving the heart of Agrigento in Sicily, Italy, and walking along the mountain ridge, the scenery grows gradually quieter, and traces built of stone reveal themselves like the shadows of time. The round columns of the temples cast quiet black shadows depending on the direction of the sun, letting you feel that the light and sound once used to honor the gods of old still remain here. The sunlight lingering upon the decayed stone at the corner of the Temple of Concordia seems to try to swallow an ancient myth within the swirl of night. The moment the foundation of the Temple of Heracles rings with the wind, this place becomes not merely a ruin, but a scene from a history in which myth once lived. The traces of the Temple of Asclepius still preserve the footprints of those who sought healing from illness, and within that stillness, the wishes of people from long ago grow deeper still.