Paestum was a major ancient Greek city on the Tyrrhenian coast of southern Italy, founded around 600 BCE by settlers from Sybaris under the name Poseidonia. It is famous for three Doric temples of about 550 to 450 BCE that survive in extraordinary condition, alongside largely intact city walls and an amphitheatre. Seized by the Lucanians and later taken by Rome in 273 BCE, this World Heritage site preserves paved roads and standing walls to this day.
Parmenides of Poseidoniaborn hereancient Olympic victor
Pictured through the ages
Artworks that portray Paestum
Temples of PaestumAntonie Sminck Pitloo · 1,824 CEPaestumBaldomero Galofre Jiménez · 1,889 CEPaestum Temple in Morning LightJules Coignet · 1,860 CEPoseidon Temple in PaestumJules Coignet · 1,844 CEShepherd boy in the temple, PaestumConstantin Hansen · 1,854 CEPaestrum in the StormJ. M. W. Turner · 1,830 CETempelområdet, PaestumJohan Christian Dahl · 1,820 CERuins of PaestumAlbert Bierstadt · 1,858 CEThe Temples in PaestumChristoph Heinrich Kniep · 1,787 CETemples of PaestumLouis Spangenberg · 1,881 CEA View of PaestumAntonio Joli · 1,759 CEView of the Basilica and Poseidon Temple of PaestumCharles Gore · 1,777 CETemple of Ceres at PaestumWilliam Stanley Haseltine · 1,858 CEItalian LandscapeJacob Philipp Hackert · 1,778 CETemples in PaestumThéodore Gudin · 1,897 CEView of the temples of Paestum in the evening light / Water buffalo in the CampagnaEdmund Hottenroth · 1,854 CEThe Temples in the Plain of PaestumGeorge Edwards Hering · 1,850 CEPaestumGioacchino La Pira · 1,870 CEView of the Magnificent Ruins of the Ancient City of PaestumIsidro González Velázquez · 1,837 CEHera Temple in PaestumMarie Ertl · 1,878 CE
