Segesta
During the Bronze Age and Classical Antiquity, the western part of Sicily represented a target for a people named the Elymians. From Anatolia to Sicily, these descendants of the Trojans travelled through tough environments in order to inhabit this part of the Italian island. One of the major cities of the Elymians and also the political center of the same people, Segesta is a North- Western Sicilian city equally important, in those times, as Eryx and Entella.
The inhabitants of Segesta resumed Greek features since its Hellenization, although at the beginning they represented a union between Elymians and Ionian Greeks.
The mirage of the city resides in its beautiful scenery but also in its Doric- style constructions that make up an efficient means of discovering ancient peoples of this area. Situated in the province of Trapani, the city advances elementary historic assets that confirm the presence of eclectic ancient occupations.
Since 430 BC the city has been crowned with a Doric Temple which makes the heart of Segesta. Over sixty meters long and twenty-six meters wide that incorporate thirty-six Doric columns, the temple is an unfinished historic wonder that determines specialist to quarry over the origin and the heterogeneous features. With an absent roof and the non-fluted pillars, the temple is rather unusual for a Hellenic frame, inside a town that was not ultimately populated by Greeks. Though unfinished, the temple serves as the core of an archaeological area.
A second ancient remnant is the theatre of Segesta, situated on the Monte Barbaro hill. Not only this is an amazing highlight of features that characterized peoples from long ago, but it also offers an once-in-a-lifetime panorama. While sitting in the center of the theatre one may actually travel through time and witness dramatic scenes performed inside the bourns of this site.
Actually, each summer the theatre hosts a cavalcade of classical Greek dramas performed in Italian. Though an attempt of recreating emotions more than three millennia old, the actors and actresses do not complete the image by wearing classical costumes, instead they choose casual contemporary clothes that do not really fit the story that they are trying to recreate. Nevertheless, those who get the chance to become a part of at least one artistic event of this kind will surely desire to return for more.
As highlights of Doric ages, the temple and the theatre of Segesta are an accurate introduction into the world of ancient inhabitants, along with other Doric testimonies spread over Sicily.