Selinunte, one of the oldest greek colony and the most important city before the punique wars was founded around the sixteen century b.C. , by a group of Megara Hyblea colonians, destroyed around the 409 b.C. by a heartquake. This was the end of one of the biggest greek colony from the west side. Its fallen columns and dismantled tours, proud of the doric temples, Selinunte shows to fascinated visitors its great past. It is evident "Lu fusu di la vecchia", so called by the hand workers and by the fisherman of the place, with its perfect architectonics propotions. It is an impressive column, sixteen meters tall with a circumference of ten meters: It is impressive and to understand how great it is; it is necessary to touch it with your hands and look at it from the base. Selinunte is an archeological park with colossal temples refined on place. The sand stones from which the columns were refined came from a place called " cave di   Cusa" about therteen chilometers from it. Even today we can notice the various phases of the work for the columns extration which had to be transferred and located from Cusa to Selinunte. Its climate and its sky are always clear blue, making everything splendid around its place in which is Spring and Summer time all year around. People thought it was Zeus home and it was called mediterraneum pearl.

Selinunte's name comes from a plant which grows spontaneausly near the river: wild celery called "Sèlinon" from the greek.