Paestum let you take a look in the past of ancient Greece. The tradition says that the ancient city should be seen the first time under the warm light of the sunset, when the picturesque sky is colored of yellow, red and soft pink, the columns of the temples are tinged of a light red like a burning fire. The blossomed meadows create a frame around the area giving a surreal atmosphere.
Paestum, sacred to Neptum, had an animated destiny. It was erected in the 700 b.C. and under the Roman influence became a prosperous city. But Paestum was abandoned for the spread of an epidemic. Was only in 1700 that the city was discovered again from some emissaries of Carlo Borbone, and they found these glorious buildings, the largest testimony Greek in Italy.
For the first temple they gave the name of Neptum's Temple the most beautiful and the biggest, the Basilica the most ancient and finally Cerere's Temple the most solitary. Two centuries later, it has been discovered that the first two temples were sacred to Hera, goddess of love.
