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Pass through the historic centre to get to the Duomo, walking up from Via Ateneo via alley ways and passing artisans’ workshops and women pausing from their daily chores to chat.

The abbey dates from around 1290 and the resident Cistercian nuns still practise the centuries-old tradition of pastry-making, which was once the exclusive work of the convents.

Amid olive and almond trees lie the ruins of this hexastyle temple dating from around 500 BC. It is the oldest of the temples still standing in Agrigento. Cross over the ancient street and walk over the stones to see the parts of the cella wall and Doric columns – particularly beautiful at sunset.

The hexastyle Temple of Concord remains intact because it was usurped for use as a church. It dates from 430 BC.

Patches of red at this temple to the queen of the gods (c.450 BC) indicate fire damage, perhaps from the Carthaginian siege of 406 BC.

This jumble of massive stones is all that remains of what was the largest known Greek temple in the world.

There are various jumbled remains of what was the walled sanctuary of the underground earth goddesses Demeter and her daughter Persephone.

Walking from temple to temple throughout the valley one can see what is left of the infrastructure of the Greek city: roads with ruts, and city walls bearing the marks from later ages, when gaps were carved in to them to make room for new Byzantine tombs and gates.

The front of the church has an interesting 13th-century portal that incorporates materials from a Roman ruin, and a nicely arched interior in plain stone.

Among knee-high ruins make out basins, columns, door jambs in walls, mills, steps, remains of the elaborate drainage system, and mosaic flooring in geometric designs.