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It is a burgeoning resort, though it is much more laid back than those on the northern coast, making the most of its somewhat faded architecture, including a Venetian castle and a dilapidated mosque.
The presence of whites, especially affluent ones, in once all-black schools lifted those schools' quality, since white parents' complaints about outdated textbooks, sub par teachers, and dilapidated facilities were heeded by school officials.
To the south, the more dilapidated Temple of Hera (also known, mistakenly, as the Basilica) is a hundred years older and is Paestum’s oldest, predating Athen’s Parthenon by one hundred years.
Along the main street, Calle José Martí, low-rise neoclassical buildings in blues, yellows, greens, and orange have a stately but dilapidated quality.
Perched on a ridge at the junction of the River Guadiana and the smaller Oeiras, the town is protected by Moorish walls and topped by a rather dilapidated castle with a profusion of storks’ nests.