Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #4 in Syracuse, Italy
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6.4 km
99 m
Explore Syracuse in Italy with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in SyracuseIndividual Sights in SyracuseSight 1: Area Monumentale della Neapolis
The Archaeological Park of Neapolis is a natural area full of archaeological finds belonging to several eras of Syracuse's history. Due to the quantity and importance of its monuments, it is considered one of the most important archaeological areas in Sicily, as well as one of the largest in the Mediterranean.
Sight 2: Arco Augusteo di Siracusa
The Augustan Arch of Syracuse is a Roman architectural work of the Augustan era located within the Archaeological Park of Neapolis in Syracuse.
Sight 3: Basilica Santuario della Madonna delle Lacrime
The Basilica of the Madonna delle Lacrime, also called Madonnina delle Lacrime is a 20th-century Roman Catholic Marian shrine church in Siracusa in Sicily, Italy. The modern building, derided by some as an inverted ice-cream cone, dominates the skyline of the approach to Ortigia.
Sight 4: Basilica Santuario di Santa Lucia al Sepolcro
The sanctuary of Santa Lucia al sepolcro is a sanctuary erected on the place where the Syracusan saint was martyred in 304, during the great persecution wanted by the Roman emperor Diocletian.
Sight 5: Arsenale greco
The Greek arsenal of Syracuse is a part of the small port, called Lakkios, where boats were once manufactured and repaired. To facilitate the work, they could be pulled ashore when they suffered breakdowns or to be able to renovate the hulls.
Sight 6: Terme di Dafne
The Baths of Daphne, also known as the Bath of Daphne, are part of a Syracusan archaeological complex, inside which the so-called Greek arsenal of Syracuse was already found, located near the small port of the city, precisely among the foundations of a civil building to the west of the Greek arsenal.
Sight 7: Tempio di Apollo
The Temple of Apollo is one of the most important ancient Greek monuments of Magna Graecia on Ortygia, in front of the Piazza Pancali in Syracuse, Sicily, Italy.
Sight 8: Isola di Ortigia
Ortygia is a small island which is the historical centre of the city of Syracuse, Sicily. The island, also known as the Città Vecchia, contains many historical landmarks.
Sight 9: Fountain of Diana
The Fountain of Diana is a monumental fountain of 1907 by Giulio Moschetti, with the collaboration of his sculptor son Mario Moschetti, located in Piazza Archimede in Syracuse.
Sight 10: Porta Urbica
A city gate or city gate is an architectural element that is part of the circle of walls that surrounded, or surrounded, a built-up area.
Sight 11: Ginnasio romano
The Roman Gymnasium is a monumental complex in Syracuse, probably dating back to the second half of the first century AD but mistakenly identified as a gymnasium that includes a theater, a four-sided portico and a temple.
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