Parco Archeologico di Elea - Velia Admission Ticket

Visit: Parco Archeologico di Elea - Velia, Contrada Piana di Velia, 84046 Marina di Ascea, Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park, Ascea Italy

Parmenides and Zenone were born in Elea, where they founded the Eleatic school, which brought no little innovation on the philosophical and mathematical level the culture of his time. Elea was nothing but the old name of the city of Velia, the area that has now become a UNESCO site for his works and his historical importance. Of this magnificent city, swarming with philosophy, Mathematics with a flourishing mercantile bustle left the port area Porta Marina, Terme e Ellenistiche the Romanesque Term, the Agora, the Acropolis, the Southern District and the District Archaic, and finally Porta Rosa, prestigious monument that held the dual function of connecting the two parts of the city and the viaduct joining the two top of the acropolis.