From the Academy

Girgenti: Built for the Ages

Upon great barren ridges in the south of Sicily, looking across the African Sea toward Carthage, stands Girgenti —which the Greeks called Akragas, and the Romans called Agrigentum, and Mussolini called Agrigento. But the Saracen and medieval name, Girgenti, endures; and the town itself, a place of fifty thousand people, is medieval still, crowned by the sirocco-worn cathedral of golden stone on the site of a great Greek temple.