Apr 23
Paestum
Paestum, a town just a few miles south of Salerno and Amalfi, is the site of another set of ruins, quite a bit older, and quite a bit less covered by voncanic ash. The town was first part of a Greek colony, then became Roman, then was abandoned because of a little malaria problem at around 600 B.C., and finally was discovered by road builders in the late 1800s, who somehow didn’t let a little 2500 year old city get in the way of progress. Today, there are three massive, impressive, and well preserved temples there, along with enough of the city to feel again like you have some idea what was doing way back when. Here are a handful of pictures from our visit there.
