The sense of wonder that the ruins of Selinus arouse is proverbial.

For Guy de Maupassant, Selinus was “an immense heap of fallen calumns, now aligned and placed side by on the ground like dead soldiers, now having fallen is a chaotic manner.

Actually, what is exceptional about Selinus is the vast quantity of its ruins, their size and their quality, elements which it is difficult to find all together in other parts of the Western world.