Phigalia

Phigalia, an ancient town of Arcadia, situated in its extreme south-west corner. From its temple of Apollo, at Bassæ, 5 to 6 miles distant, a sculptured frieze representing the contests between the Centaurs and Lapithæ, and the Amazons and Greeks, was brought to the British Museum in 1812. The temple was first described by Chandler in 1765. Next to the Theseum at Athens it is the most perfect architectural ruin in all Greece, being built of fine gray limestone and white marble. It was designed by Ictinus, one of the architects of the Parthenon at Athens, and measured originally 125½ feet long and 48 broad, and had 15 columns on each side and 6 at each end, in all 38, of which 34 still stand. See Cockerell, Temples of Ægina and Bassæ (1860).