Agrigento is the ancient Greek city of Akragas, named for the river that runs to the Mediterranean.  It is protected on the East by a natural wall of volcanic stone.  In antiquity grottoes and tombs were carved into the stone.  On the hilltop site of the ancient city, the Greeks built temples to their gods, including the world's largest remains of a Greek temple, the Temple of Hercules. 
          The temples are in the Valley of Temples, which is actually on a hill!  The Arabic word "val" means "area or region", and was transformed to the Italian "valle", which means valley.

       Girgenti é la città Greca antica chiamata Akragas, numinata pi u fiumi chi la traversa al'Mar Mediterrenu.  E prutiggiata al Est ccu nu muru naturali di petra vulcanica.  In tempi antici i grotti e i tombi eranu scavati in la petra.  Ncapu lu munti chi é lu postu dalla citta antica, i Greci faciru templi a sui dei, cu i ruvini cchiu granni dellu mundu, u Tempiu di Ercule.
          I templi sunnu a nu postu chiamatu la Valla dei Templi, chi é pi daveru nu munti.  La palora Arabica "val" voli diri "area o zona", e era trasfurmatu allu Sicilianu "valla".