The island heart of Syracuse, a dense knot of Baroque lanes ringed by the sea.
Its cathedral was built around the columns of a Greek temple of Athena, and the freshwater spring of Arethusa still rises beside the harbor with its papyrus reeds.
What to see first
Syracuse Cathedral
The cathedral built inside a Greek temple of Athena, its Doric columns still holding up the walls.
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