The Temple of Concordia

The Temple of Concordia or Tempio della Concordia as it’s known in Italy, is the jewel of the largest island in the Mediterranean, Sicily and is part of the Valle dei Templi, or the Valley of the Temples. The Valley of the Temples includes six other impressive structures: the Temple of Juno, the Temple of Heracles, the Temple of Olympian Zeus, the Temple of Castor and Pollux, the Temple of Vulcan, and the Temple of Asclepius.

Built circa 440–430 B.C., the Temple of Concordia consists of a peristasis (i.e. a four-sided porch or hallway of columns surrounding the cella in an ancient Greek peripteral temple) of six feet high columns on a crepidoma (i.e. multilevel platform on which the superstructure of the building is erected) of four steps.