It’s everyone’s favorite temple. Few monuments from antiquity have elicited as much praise for their sheer beauty and gorgeous setting as the temple in Segesta. Goethe, perhaps predictably, fell absolutely in love with the building. John Henry Newman called it “the most perfect building anywhere” and added that the day he visited Segesta was “the best day of his life.” When Walter Gropius toured Segesta in 1967, he described the building with one word--“perfect.”