We arrived in Agrigento to stay at the Hotel Athena. This hotel is the closest to the
Valle dei Tempi and has fabulous views of the temples and is also within walking distance, allowing us to be among the first there in the morning, before tour buses started arriving. And also before it became too hot!
Arriving at the hotel we were happy to find that there was plenty of parking in front of the main door. We went in to check in and immediately were asked to have the keys for the car in order to move it to the car park area. Had never before encountered such eagerness! My initial reaction was a little negative as I had not decided exactly what I needed from it... we were spending a month touring around and did not need to take all of our stuff into hotels each time! Then I decided they wanted to remove us quickly as the car needed a carwash after the dirt roads we had just traversed, having missed the freeway signs! Turned out they were expecting....but didn't know when..... the marketing team for a new model BMW! They were photographing around the temples for future advertising. We saw their car lights up by the temples as we were having dinner on the terrace and the team did turn up eventually around 10pm! We never did get to see the new BMW.... under wraps??
The site was having a very interesting sculpture exhibition.
The sculptures were by Igor Mitorj .
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