Ortygia, the historic heart of Syracuse, is one of Sicily's most beautiful gems. This enchanting island, connected to the mainland by two bridges, boasts a rich history spanning thousands of years, with ancient ruins, baroque splendor, and vibrant street markets.

The "Cathedral of Syracuse", formally the Cattedrale metropolitana della Natività di Maria Santissima, is an ancient Catholic church in Syracuse, Sicily, the seat of the Catholic Archdiocese of Siracusa. Its structure is originally a Greek doric temple, and for this reason it is included in a UNESCO World Heritage Site designated in 2005.

The "Fountain of Arethusa" is a natural spring on the island of Ortygia in the historical centre of the city of Syracuse in Sicily. According to Greek mythology, this freshwater fountain is the place where the nymph Arethusa, the patron figure of ancient Syracuse, returned to Earth's surface after escaping from her undersea home in Arcadia.Virgil, Georgics 4.344

Hidden within the ancient Latomia del Paradiso lies this remarkable limestone cave - 23 meters high and 65 meters deep. For centuries, it has captivated people with its exceptional acoustics and poignant history. It was Caravaggio, in 1608, who bestowed its name, inspired by the cave's ear-like shape and the legends surrounding Dionysius.

The Archaeological Park of Neapolis showcases the grandeur of ancient Greco-Roman history. At its heart lies the monumental Greek theater, one of the largest of its kind, built in the 5th century BC. The park also features the Orecchio di Dionisio, a striking man-made cave renowned for its acoustics. Completing the park’s highlights is the Roman amphitheater from the 3rd century AD, once a venue for gladiatorial contests.

The Temple of Apollo, constructed in the early 6th century BC, stands as the oldest Doric temple in Sicily. Originally crafted from massive monoliths, it marks the transition from wooden to stone structures and showcases unique architectural features like a double colonnade on the east side.

The "Greek theatre of Syracuse" lies on the south slopes of the Temenite hill, overlooking the modern city of Syracuse in southeastern Sicily, Italy. It was first built in the 5th century BC, rebuilt in the 3rd century BC and renovated again in the Roman period. Today, it is a part of the Unesco World Heritage Site of "Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica".

The "Fountain of Diana" is a monumental fountain from 1907, created by Giulio Moschetti with the collaboration of his sculptor son Mario Moschetti, located in Piazza Archimede in Syracuse.

Perched atop Ortygia Island, the fortress is a stunning example of medieval military architecture, offering expansive sea views. Built between 1232 and 1240 by Emperor Frederick II, its massive walls, four cylindrical towers, and magnificent marble entrance adorned with intricate arches and sculptures are truly impressive.

The Basilica of the "Madonna delle Lacrime", also called "Madonnina delle Lacrime" is a 20th-century Roman Catholic Marian shrine church in Syracuse in Sicily, Italy. The modern building, derided by some as an inverted ice-cream cone, dominates the skyline of the approach to Ortigia.

The "Catacombs of Syracuse" are among the largest known catacombs, second only to those in Rome. They are located in the new town of Syracuse in Sicily, near the Parco Archeologico della Neapolis and the Archaeological Museum. They consist – arranged by age – of the Catacombs of Santa Lucia, the Catacombs of Vignia Cassia, and the Catacombs of St. John the Evangelist, each with different entrances.

The "sanctuary of Santa Lucia al sepolcro" is a sanctuary.

The "Grand Hotel Villa Politi" in Syracuse is the oldest hotel in Italy; in fact, it is the oldest building in Italy specifically designed for this purpose.

The "Roman amphitheatre of Syracuse" is one of the best preserved structures in the city of Syracuse, Sicily, from the early Imperial period.

The "Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi" of Syracuse, Sicily is one of the principal archaeological museums of Europe.

The "Temple of Athena" is a hexastyle peripteral Doric temple built in Syracuse, Magna Graecia, in the 5th century BC by the tyrant Gelo after his victory over the Carthaginians at the Battle of Himera. The temple was preceded by a cult site which dated back to the 8th century BC, with an altar discovered in excavation at the beginning of the twentieth century, and by an earlier temple from the middle of the sixth century BC.

Hidden beneath the Residenza Alla Giudecca Hotel in Ortigia is the oldest Jewish ritual bath in Europe, built in the 6th century. Rediscovered in 1989, this fascinating mikveh lies 18 meters underground and features five basins carved into the rock, fed by a natural spring. Visitors descend a steep stone staircase into a room with a vaulted ceiling, surrounded by four limestone columns. Once a sacred site for ritual purification, the mikveh remained hidden for centuries after being filled with rubble and sealed during the Inquisition in the 15th century.

"Bellomo Palace Regional Gallery" is an art museum in Syracuse, Sicily.

"Santa Lucia alla Badia" is a baroque-style, Roman Catholic church, now deconsecrated, located on the south corner of the piazza duomo, located to the south of the facade of the Cathedral of Syracuse), located in the island of Ortigia, the historic city center of Siracusa in Sicily, Italy. The church building and adjacent former monastery is now used for special exhibitions and functions.

The "Church of San Filippo Apostolo" is a Catholic church built in 1743 and located in the Giudecca district of Ortigia, the historic center of the city of Syracuse.

The "Teatro Comunale di Siracusa" is a building located in Ortigia and is dedicated to theatrical performances. It was inaugurated in 1897 and remained in operation until 1962, when it was closed for maintenance work, and officially reopened for performances on December 26, 2016. "Siracusa Teatro contributo alla storia del Teatro Siciliano" by Giuseppe Guarraci, published by LAPS Siracusa in 2004.

"Capo Murro di Porco Lighthouse" is an active lighthouse located at the end of the on the south eastern tip of Sicily in the , municipality of Siracusa on the Ionian Sea.

The "Euryalus Fortress" located in the frazione of Belvedere, was the key point in the fortifications of the ancient Greek city of Syracuse, Magna Graecia. It is located on the highest point of the hill of Epipolae, around 7 km northwest of Syracuse.

The "Altar of Hieron" or the "Great Altar of Syracuse" is a monumental grand altar in the ancient quarter of Neapolis in Syracuse, Sicily. It was built in the Hellenistic period in Magna Graecia by King Hiero II and is the largest altar known from antiquity.

The alleged "tomb of Archimedes" is an artificial cave carved into limestone, located within the Grotticelle necropolis, which in turn is situated in the northernmost part of the Neapolis archaeological park, located in the urban area of Syracuse. Its fame is due to popular tradition, which suggests that the burial of the famous Syracusan Archimedes, killed by a Roman soldier during the capture of Syracuse in 212 B.C., took place in this cavity.

The "Church of San Giovanni alle Catacombe" in Syracuse still retains traces of that charm that drew travelers in the 18th and 19th centuries to visit it.

The "Latomia dei Cappuccini" is the largest of the quarries in Syracuse; in Sicilian, it is also called "sibbia."

The "Grotta del Ninfeo" is an artificial cavity in the rock of Temenite Hill located in the Archaeological park of Neapolis in Syracuse.

The "Borgia Palace of Casale" is located in Piazza del Duomo in Syracuse, on the island of Ortigia.

"San Giovanni Battista," also known as "San Giovannello," is a Roman Catholic church located at the "piazza del Precursore" on the island of Ortygia in Syracuse, Sicily, dating back to the 4th century. The current structure was built around 1380 and is largely a ruin today, lacking a church roof, although services have been held there again since 2015 during the summer months.

The "Monument to the Fallen Italians in Africa" is a Fascist era monument, dedicated to the Italians who died during the Ethiopian War, and assembled only in the 1960s on the seashore in Siracusa, region of Sicily, Italy. The monument, sculpted and designed by Romano Romanelli, was initially meant to be shipped in 1940 and assembled in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia; however, the Second World War prevented the transport, and led to its installation more than two decades later at this site, chosen because Syracuse had been a center for embarcation of troops for the African wars.

The "Palazzo Beneventano del Bosco" is a large urban palace, located on piazza Duomo, across from the present city hall and diagonal to the Cathedral of Syracuse, in the island of Ortigia in the city of Syracuse in Sicily, Italy.

"Palazzo Vermexio" is a 17th-century Baroque monumental building, located facing Piazza Duomo in the island of Ortigia in Siracusa, region of Sicily, Italy. It presently serves as city hall.

"San Martino" is a mainly gothic and baroque-style, Roman Catholic church located on Via San Martino in the island of Ortigia, in the historic city center of Siracusa in Sicily, Italy.

The "Temple of Artemis" in Syracuse on the island of Ortygia is today the only known temple in Sicily that was built in the 6th century BC in Ionic style in honor of the goddess Artemis. The remains are located on an area where, in the 7th century BC, at the beginning of the Greek colonization, alongside remnants of prehistoric huts, there was also an archaic sanctuary of Athena in the form of a megaron. Over the foundations, which were discovered in 1910 by the archaeologist Paolo Orsi, stands the town hall of Syracuse today. In the 1960s, archaeologist Gino Vinicio Gentili was able to excavate fragments of an Ionic column that are comparable to the columns of the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus in present-day Turkey.

The "Archbishop's Palace" of Syracuse is the seat of the Syracuse archdiocese and the seminary. Inside, there is also the ancient Alagonian library. The building is located in Piazza del Duomo, next to the Cathedral of Syracuse.

"Palazzo Montalto", also known as "Palazzo Mergulese-Montalto", is a late 14th-century palace on the island of Ortygia in Syracuse, Sicily.

The "Dionysian walls" or "walls of Dionysius" are a fortification built by the tyrant Dionysius I of Syracuse between 402 BC and 397 BC to fortify the Epipoli plateau of Syracuse, which was still lacking defenses, thus allowing for greater control of the city even under siege. The walls completely encircled the ancient city of Syracuse with a perimeter of 21 km and converged at the highest point near the Eurialo Castle. The walls are considered the most extensive in the Classical World, even surpassing the Aurelian Walls of Rome.

"Syracuse War Cemetery" is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of World War II located near Syracuse on the island of Sicily.

The "Necropolis of Cassibile" is a large archaeological site in the Province of Syracuse, near the towns of Avola and Cassibile. The site contains a very large graves system situated inside several ravines; the largest of them is called "Cavagrande". About 2,000 graves carved out of the rock have been found; they are dated from the 11th to the 9th century BC. This necropolis gives the name to a precise period of the Sicels' civilization.

The "Syracusan forum," now identified with the term "villini," is a green area in Syracuse located between Piazzale Marconi and the roadway of Corso Umberto I. In ancient times, it was the city's agora and, during the Roman era, the forum.

"San Paolo Apostolo" is a baroque-style, Roman Catholic parish church located on via dell'Apollonion on the island of Ortigia, in the historic city center of Siracusa in Sicily, Italy. It serves as a parish church for the "Quartiere di la Graziella", once the quarter housing the families who worked in the fishing trade. Alongside the church are the ruins of the Temple of Apollo.

The "Church of the Carmine" with the primitive convent of the Carmelite Order constituted the monumental center located on Via San Pietro in the historic center of Syracuse. Belonging to the Archdiocese of Syracuse, the vicarage of Syracuse under the patronage of Saint Lucia. Since 2023, the church has hosted the Parish of Saints Peter and Paul due to the transfer desired by Archbishop Mons. Francesco Lo Manto.

The "Venere Landolina" is a headless marble sculpture, a Roman copy of a Greek original from the first half of the 1st century BC, preserved at the Archaeological Museum of Syracuse.

The "Church of San Giuseppe and Sant'Ignazio di Loyola" - otherwise known as the "Church of the Jesuit College" - along with various structures, constituted the monumental hub of the Society of Jesus, with a façade on Via Saverio Landolina in the historic center of Syracuse. It belongs to the Archdiocese of Syracuse, the Vicariate of Syracuse under the patronage of Saint Lucia, the Archpriesthood of Syracuse, and the parish of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The fragments of the ancient city gate "Porta Urbica" on the island of Ortygia in Syracuse are today the only archaeological evidence of the insular city walls, which were built under Dionysius I at the end of the 5th century BC. The tyrant preemptively fortified Ortygia with a ring of walls after the first war against Carthage, as the core city was to serve him in the future as an armed base for offense and retreat. The fortified Ortygia, due to its island location, was the self-sufficient base of a comprehensive fortification system that Dionysius I expanded on the mainland around Syracuse in anticipation of future confrontations with Carthage. Diodorus "LacusCurtius" [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/14A*.html 14, 7, 2]

"Stentinello" is a Neolithic village located in the Targia plain, near the northern entrance of Syracuse, the eponymous site of the Stentinello culture dating back to the 5th millennium BC, contemporary with the Castellaro Vecchio culture of the Aeolian Islands and the Ghar Dalam culture of Malta. A variant of this culture is the Kronio culture of western Sicily.

The "Ciane River and Saline Nature Reserve of Syracuse" is a protected natural area established by the Sicilian Region that includes the course of the Ciane River and the wetland area of the Saline on the southern outskirts of the city of Syracuse [http://www.minambiente.it/opencms/export/sites/default/archivio/allegati/vari/elenco_ap_2003.pdf Official list of protected areas] 5th Update approved by the Resolution of the State-Regions Conference on July 24, 2003, and published in the Ordinary Supplement No. 144 to the Official Gazette No. 205 of September 4, 2003. The reserve is managed by the eponymous province.

The "Thermae of Daphne," also known as the "Baths of Daphne," are part of an archaeological complex in Syracuse, where the so-called Greek arsenal of Syracuse was already discovered, located near the small port of the city, specifically between the foundations of a civil building to the west of the Greek arsenal.

The "Via dei Sepolcri" is an evocative street 150 meters long that leads to the top of the "Colle Temenite," located within the Archaeological Park of Neapolis in Syracuse. As you walk through it, you can see the high rocky walls that surround it on both sides and the votive niches that have been carved along the entire route.

The "Augustan Arch of Syracuse" is a Roman architectural work from the Augustan era located within the Archaeological Park of Neapolis in Syracuse.

The "Temple of Olympian Zeus," also known as "Olympeion," was built in the early decades of the 6th century BC and stands on a hill overlooking the surrounding plain.

"Santa Maria dei Miracoli" is a Roman Catholic church located on via dei Miracoli and via dei Cordari, on the island of Ortigia, in the historic city center of Syracuse in Sicily, Italy.

The "Palace of the Superintendency of Cultural Heritage of Syracuse" is a building located in Piazza del Duomo in Syracuse, on the island of Ortigia. It houses the Superintendency of Cultural and Environmental Heritage of Syracuse [http://www.regione.sicilia.it/beniculturali/dirbenicult/database/page_soprintendenze/pagina_soprintendenze.asp?ID=9&comune=8657&struttura=5&areaservizio=65 www.regione.sicilia.it/beniculturali]. This palace is also known as the "Numismatic Cabinet," as it hosts a permanent exhibition of ancient coins.

"Spirito Santo" is a baroque-style, Roman Catholic church located on Lungomare Ortigia #4, facing towards the Ionian sea, on the island of Ortigia, in the historic city center of Siracusa in Sicily, Italy.

The "Grotta Monello Integral Nature Reserve" is a protected natural area located in the municipality of Syracuse, bordering Avola and not far from Canicattini Bagni. It was established in 1998 by the Department of Territory and Environment of the Sicilian Region and is managed by the University of Catania [http://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/do/gazzetta/downloadPdf?dataPubblicazioneGazzetta=20100531&numeroGazzetta=125&tipoSerie=SG&tipoSupplemento=SO&numeroSupplemento=115&estensione=pdf&edizione=0 Official list of protected areas] 6th Update approved on April 27, 2010, and published in the Ordinary Supplement No. 115 to the Official Gazette No. 125 of May 31, 2010. It covers an area of about 60 hectares and is located in the eastern sector of the Iblean plateau.

The "Hypogeum of Piazza Duomo," located in Syracuse, is an underground path that starts from the highest point of Ortigia, specifically from Piazza del Duomo, and then emerges at the Foro Italico where the Marina walls are located.

"San Filippo Neri" is a baroque-style, Roman Catholic church located on via Vittorio Veneto, facing seaside, on the island of Ortigia, in the historic city center of Siracusa in Sicily, Italy.

The "Antico Mercato" of Syracuse is a building from the 1900s located on Via Trento, adjacent to the Temple of Apollo in Ortigia.

"San Giuseppe" is a baroque-style, Roman Catholic church located in the piazza of the same name, across the street from the church of San Domenico, on the island of Ortigia, in the historic city center of Siracusa in Sicily, Italy.

The "Scea Gate" is one of the ancient access gates from the Greek era to the north of Syracuse.

The "Roman Gymnasium" is a monumental complex in Syracuse, likely dating back to the second half of the 1st century A.D., but mistakenly identified as a gymnasium that includes a theater, a portico, and a temple.

The "Corrado Basile Papyrology Museum" in Syracuse is located on Via Nizza, in the former convent of Sant'Agostino in Ortigia.

The "Grand Hotel Des Etrangers" is a historic 5-star hotel in Ortigia, Syracuse.

The "Tropical Aquarium of Syracuse" was a place, currently closed to the public, where various fish, mostly from the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, including the coasts of Aretusa, as well as lakes and rivers from tropical environments such as South America and Africa, could be found.

The "Impellizzeri Palace" is one of the Rococo noble buildings in Syracuse; located on the island of Ortigia.

The "Church of San Nicolò ai Cordari" was one of the first churches built in Syracuse.

The "Church of San Benedetto" - currently the "Romanian Orthodox Parish of Saint Apostle Paul and Saint Lucia Virgin and Martyr" - along with the original monastery of the Benedictine Order, constituted the monumental center located on Via Capodieci in the historic center of Syracuse. Belonging to the Archdiocese of Syracuse, the Vicariate of Syracuse under the patronage of Saint Lucia, the Archpriesthood of Syracuse, Romanian Orthodox Parish of Saint Apostle Paul and Saint Lucia Virgin and Martyr.

The "Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore" was a sanctuary in ancient Syracuse in Sicily, Magna Graecia, dedicated to Demeter and Kore.