This is a huge site which contained a remarkable number of temples. One has been restored to something like its ancient beauty and at the other extreme some are no more than piles of masonry blocks. Selinunte made the mistake of getting involved in the Pelloponesian war on the side of one of Sparta's allies and was sacked.
I was there for several hours in wonderful sun - February remember - and I doubt I saw twenty people in total. There was already a real profusion of wild flowers. There are three areas. One is the necropolis, some way from the entrance and the main car park, though there is another one at the site of the acropolis, which contains not only temple ruins but the ruins of houses and civic buildings - not much more than foundations now but fertile ground for the imagination.
It is the area near the main carpark where the restored temple is situated and there are quite substantial ruins of two of the other three temples which were originally situated here.