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Where in the world
Italy
Segesta
Greek · Italy
Field notes
- civilizations
- Greek
- types
- City
- occupied
- 700 BCE — 400 BCE
- visitors
- 300,798 / year
- country
- Italy
The site
Segesta was one of the major cities of the Elymians, an indigenous people of Sicily, located in the northwest of the island near modern Calatafimi-Segesta in Italy. Occupied between roughly 700 and 400 BCE, it was hellenized very early, a process that deeply shaped its people. Today its ruins draw hundreds of thousands of visitors to the Sicilian hills.
