The photo taken on Sept. 5, 2013 shows the ruins of the Temple of Apollo in Ortigia, the old town of Syracuse in Sicily, Italy. Located in the southeast corner of the island of Sicily, Syracuse is a ...

Sigmund Freud described Sicily as ‘the loveliest region of Italy: a stunning orgy of colours, scents, and lights… a great delight’, and Siracusa (as the locals call it) in the south east of the island ...

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There are few places where the cultural layer cake that is Sicily’s Ionian coast is more evident than in Syracuse, where Greek and Roman ruins share blocks (and even buildings) with flourishes left by ...

Every Sicilian city has its centro storico (historical centre), but none comes quite so neatly packaged as that of Ortigia An island off an island: there's something inherently lovely about that, and ...

This well-equipped family apartment with panoramic roof terrace occupies the top two floors of a seafront townhouse. Ortigia's Piazza Duomo is a few minutes walk away. On the seafront at the heart of ...

In the tenth iteration of the Rome Global Seminar, Environmental Design students embarked on a summer field course, exploring the rich culture and historic urban landscapes of both Rome and Syracuse, ...