A week on the coast in the old town of Castellabate in the Parco Nazionale del Cilento meant we were a short drive from Paestum or, as the original Greek settlers called it, Poseidonia.

Paestum is a place of quiet, green fields filled with the remains of a city dating back around 2,500 years with three remarkably intact Greek temples of the Doric order. It is a serene place and on a warm evening, an atmospheric journey beneath huge stone columns and remnant walls. This classic architectural style and its later orders were the inspiration for Andrea Palladio (see for example his Villa Barbaro) and his many subsequent adherents; so these crumblings towers of stone in a green field in Campania that were forgotten about for centuries now echo around the globe.

The Tomb of the Diver is the most imaginative image and the most famous artefact in the adjacent Museum: the deceased dives perfectly into his new world. The other frescoes are men greeting the deceased with music and laughter.