Syracuse Photos

It is the fourth largest city in Sicily by number of inhabitants, after Palermo, Catania and Messina.

Already defined by Cicero, “the largest and most beautiful of all Greek cities,” from 2005, along with the necropolis of Pantalica rock, has been declared World Heritage by UNESCO.

The name derives from the Sicilian Syracuse Syraka (plenty of water) for the presence of many streams and a wetland. Both in greek which in Latin is the plural Siracusae because the city was founded by Archie, a noble of Corinth in 734 BC, became the Pentapolis few years since the original core, comprising the island of Ortigia were added as other four nuclei: Acradina, Tyche, Neapolis and Epipoli.