Agrigento (Girgenti in Sicilian) is a town on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy, capital of the province of Agrigento. The city is renowned as the site of the ancient Greek city of Akragras (also Acragas, Agrigentum in Latin, Kerkent in Arabic), one of the leading cities of Magna Graecia.
Ancient Akragas covers a huge area— much of which is still unexcavated today— but is exemplified by the famous Valle dei Templi ("Valley of the Temples". This comprises a large sacred area on the south side of the ancient city where seven monumental Greek temples in the Doric style were constructed during the 6th and 5th centuries BCE. The best preserved of the temples are two very similar buildings traditionally attributed to the goddesses Juno Lacinia and Concordia.
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