Heraclea Minoa

Heraclea Minoa
	The remains of a house in Heraclea Minoa
	Shown within Sicily
Location	Cattolica Eraclea, Province of Agrigento, Sicily, Italy
Coordinates	37°23′38″N 13°16′51″E / 37.39389°N 13.28083°E
Type	Settlement
History
Founded	Middle of the 6th century BC
Periods	Archaic Greek to Roman Imperial
Cultures	Greek, Roman
Site notes
Condition	Ruined
Website	Area Archeologia e Antiquarium Eraclea Minoa (in Italian)

Heraclea Minoa (Greek: Ἡράκλεια Μινῴα, Hērákleia Minṓia; Italian: Eraclea Minoa) was an ancient Greek city of Magna Graecia situated on the southern coast of Sicily near the mouth of the river Halycus (modern Platani), 25 km west of Agrigentum (Acragas, modern Agrigento). It is located near the modern town of the same name in the comune Cattolica Eraclea in Italy.

Excavations have revealed several parts of the city which are now open to the public.

Archaeology has shown that the city was founded in the middle of the 6th century BC as an outpost of the Greek colony of Selinus (modern Selinunte) and was finally abandoned around the beginning of the 1st century AD.