Temple of Hera I

This Doric temple, a style preferred in the western Greek colonies, still has the colonnades of the peristyle and part of the central interior colonnade. A monumental temple (about 80 x 170 feet), it has nine columns at the ends and eighteen on the side--a ratio of 1:2. It was made of local stone, since marble was rare in this part of Italy, and stuccoed. Today it has lost all of its stucco.