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The topography of the ancient city, described by Cicero in the Verrines, he/she understood the island of Ortigia, among the two harbors, and on the dry land the districts of Akradina, Tyche, Neapolis and Epipole, contained inside the vast entourage of boundaries made to build from Dionisio I at the end of the sec. V TO. C. In Ortigia they are the rests of the most important sacred buildings: the temple of Atena of the sec. V TO. C., dorico, englobed in the cathedral, and nearby, under building Vermexio, been incomplete an archaic ionic temple. Near Pancali plaza it is the sanctuary of Apollo with the rests of the templedorico of the beginnings of the sec. YOU TO. C. On the dry land, near the station, they are the ruins of the Roman grammar school, with small theatrical cavea. In the district of Neapolis the famous Greek theater is found: the actual aspect, with the ample cavea semicircolare (the vast of all the theaters Greek survivors), is that of Hellenistic age with additions of Roman age; there are then the Roman amphitheater and the monumental altar of Gerone II, of which the long plinth almost stays 200 meters. In the same zone it is her/it "cave of the cordaris", the most famous among the latomies. The most important military monument in Syracuse is the castle of Eurialo, mighty trapezoidal mastio with five towers and three ditches. Near Syracuse, to the mouth of the Anapo, it is the temple archaic dorico of Zeus Olimpio. Numerous the Christian catacombs; the most notable are those of S. Giovanni and of S. Lucy. The actual Syracuse is composed of two parts: on the islet of Ortigia the most ancient nucleus rises, with various monuments and buildings; on the dry land the inhabited area developed him in our century. The cathedral was raised in the sec. VII, adapting the temple of Atena (sec. V TO. C.), of which notable traces stay. The pompous façade, of Baroque aspect, it is due to the remaking (1728-54) than To. Palm. To the inside, basilical to three aisles, notable works of art are found, among which a table to fund gold attributed to Antonello by Messina. Of Norman origin

Residence Siracusa rental apartments Sicily S. Martin, S. Nicolò and S. Lucy, this last rehandled in the sec. XVII (to the inside, Burial of S. Lucy of the Caravaggio). To the sec. XIII (ca. 1239) it goes up again the imposing castle Maniace, erected by Fred II: you/he/she has cried square, with four towers and a notable Gothic portal. Severe construction of origin sveva is the building Bellomo (sec. XIII, rehandled in the XV). Numerous the constructions tardogotiche (building Montalto, ca. 1397), Renaissance (church of S. Maria of the Miracles, second half sec. XV) and Baroque (church of the College, 1635-87). The plaza of the cathedral, to plant semiellittica, is a meaningful complex of Baroque architecture. The archaeological Museum, the richest and important of oriental Sicily, picks up above all notable material of the prehistoric age and protostorica of the island, over that Greek-Roman. Of maximum importance an archaic kûros (sec. YOU TO. C.), a statue fittile with Goddess in throne (530 to. C. ca.), a torso efebico (500 to. C.) and the rich numismatic collection. The regional Museum, that has center in the building Bellomo, preserve sculptures and medieval and Renaissance paintings, among which the Annunciation of Antonello from Messina.

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