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    Paestum (/ˈpɛstəm/ PEST-əm, US also /ˈpiːstəm/ PEE-stəm, Latin: [ˈpae̯stũː]) was a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, in Magna...
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    Capaccio Paestum (formerly only Capaccio) is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy. The ruins of...
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    Temple of Neptune or of Poseidon), is a Greek temple of Magna Graecia in Paestum, Campania, Italy. It was built in the Doric order around 460–450 BC, just...
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  • National Archaeological Museum of Paestum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Paestum) is a museum in Capaccio-Paestum (Salerno, southern Italy) that houses...
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  • Paestum (Italian: [ˈpɛstum]) is a frazione of the comune (municipality) of Capaccio in the Cilento area of southern Italy. It lies in the province of...
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    Paestum station is a train station in Italy of the Salerno–Reggio di Calabria railway located near the Paestum archaeological site and about one kilometre...
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    Hera (Paestum)—also known as Temple of Hera I and the Basilica—is an archaic Doric order Greek temple in the ruins of the ancient city of Paestum, Italy...
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    and Roman influence was extended by the colonies of Venusia (291 BC), Paestum (273), and above all Tarentum (272). Subsequently they were sometimes in...
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    Temple of Athena is a Greek temple of Magna Graecia found at Paestum, in Capaccio Paestum, a comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of...
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    needed] and Roman influence was extended by the colonies of Venusia (291), Paestum (Greek Posidonia, refounded in 273), and above all Roman Tarentum (refounded...
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    temple at Olympia and two of the great fifth and sixth-century temples of Paestum, the termagant of Homer and the myths is an "almost... comic figure," according...
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  • The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pesto (or Paëstum or Pæstum) was a bishopric, later under the name of Capaccio, and became a Latin Catholic titular see...
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    The coast of Cilento is located on the Tyrrhenian Sea, stretching from Paestum to the Gulf of Policastro, near the town of Sapri. Most of the touristic...
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    population was of 1,301. On September 9, 1943, the beaches of Laura and Paestum were the landing points of the U.S. Fifth Army during the Operation Avalanche...
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    a World Heritage Site of UNESCO, also with the ancient Greek towns of Paestum, Velia and the Padula Charterhouse. The other natural reserves instituted...
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  • example, in the Doric order temples in Segesta, Selinus, Agrigento, and Paestum. It was used less frequently in Hellenistic and Roman period architecture...
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    The Temples of Paestum is an 1824 painting by Antonie Sminck Pitloo. It shows two of the temples at Paestum, probably during an excavation. It was produced...
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  • Paestum Airfield Paestum Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in Italy, located approximately 9 km north-northeast of Agropoli, in the...
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    bufala campana PDO is produced in the area reaching from Rome in Lazio to Paestum near Salerno in Campania, and there are also production areas in the province...
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    and yellow. The Laghetto and Caivano Painters appear to have moved to Paestum later. The AV Group also had its workshop in Capua. Of particular importance...
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  • placed in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the coast of south-western Italy near Paestum or between Sorrento and Capri: "three small islands on the southwest coast...
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    center of the plan, such as the Parthenon and the Temple of Apollo at Paestum. The Romans favoured pseudoperipteral buildings with a portico offsetting...
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    on the facade. "Basilica" (Paestum): three columns on the potch, nine columns in the pteron facade :Robertson, p.73 Paestum, second temple of Hera: two...
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  • Campania [it]. The club had yet another name A.S.D. Paestum Città dei Templi, based in Paestum frazione, Capaccio-Paestum (not to be confused with S.S. Akragas Città...
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    Major General Fred L. Walker's U.S. 36th Infantry Division approached the Paestum shore at 03:30 a loudspeaker from the landing area proclaimed in English:...
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    depicted on a fresco in the Tomb of the Diver from the Greek colony of Paestum in Italy. The man on the right tries to kiss the youth with whom he is...
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    archaeological and ancient sites—such as Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis, Paestum, Aeclanum, Stabiae, and Velia. The name "Campania" is derived from Latin;...
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  • December 2011). "Archaeological magazines in Europe – and America: the Paestum experience". Current Archaeology. Retrieved 6 October 2013. Official website...
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    Tomb of the Diver (category Paestum (ancient city))
    Tomb of the Diver (Italian: Tomba del tuffatore), now in the museum at Paestum, Italy, is a frescoed tomb of the 5th century BCE, famous for the mysterious...
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    Tiberius and his mother Livia, AD 14–19, from Paestum, National Archaeological Museum of Spain, Madrid...
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