Situated on a tall lowland around 30 meters on the level of the sea, Selinunte takes the name from the Selinon, the wild parsley. You was founded by farmers of driven Megara Hyblaea dall' ecista Pammilos, in the VII century a.C. Following immigrations of farmers megaresi siceliotis were had both in the last decades of the VII and for everything the of You century up to the beginnings of the V. Selinunte tried to found some colonies in western Sicily (Eraclea Minoa). It had numerous and strong contrasts with Segesta up to 409, year of his/her happened destruction really to work of the Carthaginian ones. Selinunte so it was found subdued to the dominion of the Punicis that they strengthened it and they reconstructed it, in the area where first the acropolis rose: the archaeological rests introduce a mixed inhabited area, punico and Greek. The Carthaginian dominion, lasted up to her/it The war punica. A violent earthquake, in the century X or XI, ended up perhaps reducing to a heap of ruins the monuments of the ancient city. In the second halves the XVI century, the city was rediscovery at the historian Tommaso Fazello. In 1823 the English undertook some archaeological excavations. And' in phase of realization a vast program of studies and searches of the archaeological park and preparation museografico.