sentences:  The ancient Greek city of Side was in Pamphylia, a former region on the southern Mediterranean coast of Asia Minor (modern-day Antalya province, Turkey).Within the Heraion at the mouth of the Sele, near Paestum, Magna Graecia, is a chapel devoted to the "Madonna del Granato", "Our Lady of the Pomegranate", "who by virtue of her epithet and the attribute of a pomegranate must be the Christian successor of the ancient Greek goddess Hera", observes the excavator of the Heraion of Samos, Helmut Kyrieleis.In modern times, the pomegranate still holds strong symbolic meanings for the Greeks.