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| The town of Tusa
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The archaeological area Halaesa Arconidea It is some vestiges of a Sicilian town founded in 403 B.C. by Arconide, tyrant of Herbita. It has enjoyed splendour in Roman period and in Christian age, when it has been bishop’s seat, and later it has been destroyed by Arabs. The excavations have brought to light magnificent buttresses of the acropolis and the seat of the ancient Agorà. This shows imposing walls and ashlar-works of Hellenistic period, the base of a temple dedicated to Apollo. Further researches have shown the presence of a regular chess-board town-planning, which gets streets paved with bricks and parallel to a large middle road which from the southern gate of the town got to the Agorà.
Such street system belongs to Christian-byzantine period. On the top of the hill raised a temple, now no more visitable.
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