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The metopes (carved space on a Doric frieze) around the entablature depict the legendary feats of Heracles and Theseus.
Of the 34 Doric columns only 15 are still in situ, and the ornate frieze on the pediment and entablature has been ravaged by the salty air, but the whole effect of the building combined with the setting — with beach on one side and sheer drop on the other — is magnificent.
North of Temple Valley, next to the 13th-century Norman church of San Nicola, the small but important Archaeological Museum has a fine marble statue of Ephebus (fifth century b.c. ), a gigantic telamon, a 25-ft sculpted male figure used to hold up a temple roof’s entablature, and some superb Greek wine vessels.
The exterior of the temple is well-preserved and uses the same curved lines as the Parthenon, though the columns are more slender and the entablature (horizontal platform above the columns) sturdier.
The roof has gone, but with its entablature and 14 fluted columns still standing, it is, with Athens’ Theseion, the best preserved of all Greek temples.