Ours Bed And Breakfast is in the Ortigia Island,
historic city centre of Syracuse, fascinating island, full of history
and culture, where has happened for three thousand years in some occurrence wars and historical events of the mediterranean sea.
We can access in Ortigia by across the new Saint Lucia bridge
(dedicated to the Saint protector of the Syracuse) here starts ours itinerary that will bring us uncovering the monuments treasures
and preserved architecture in the historical centre of Syracuse,
we will leave from the dedicated Dorian Temple of Apollo
with his monolithic columns and then we will continue the main road
of the historical centre across Matteotti street that will lead
us in the suggestive Archimede square that on its centre shows the circular fountain that it calls Artemis myth again, we will continue to Rome street and to about 300 mt on the right there is Minerva street that it leads in an area more prestigious than Syracuse
the Cathedral square, drawing-room of Syracuse where
we will be able to admire the Dorian Temple of Athena today Syracuse Cathedral and the church of Saint Lucia to the abbey, besides we will continue to road of Virgins and a street Capodieci arriving to the Bellomo Museum that given hospitality, in to the homonym palace of the XIII century, at the Regional Gallery
of Bellomo Palace.
Inside of it there's a lot of masterpieces such as The Annunciation
of Antonello da Messina and the Sepulture of Saint Lucia
of the Caravaggio and besides a vast painting collection
of the 600 and 700 in Sicily; continuing from here we can reach
the Arethusa Fountain his report because, moreover as Egypt,
the only one locations in the world where the Papiro plant grows spontaneously.
Adjoining to the Arethusa Fountain there is the Alfeo Seafront,
a place of a fascinating above all beauty with the artistic lighting,
this one is meeting place of the young in the summer evenings
to spend a pleasant evening admiring the pleasure boats that can moor to it, in the past destination of some Hollywood's stars
such as Tom Cruise, Madonna, George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, the singer Rod Stewart, the stylist Giorgio Armani...
Continuing, we'll arrive at the extreme of the "Ortigia" island
where we can see on the rocks the Maniace Castle that testifies
the Sveva Architecture from the Frederick the Second age.
Outside by the historic city centre of Syracuse, having gone through Umberto street and Gelone street we will arrive to the Neapolis Archaeological Park where is preserved large part of the main monuments of the oldest Syracuse that they testify the presence
of the Graeco-Roman period:
the Greek Theatre, a place where every year they unwind
the Classics Representations, now famous event in all the world, the Roman Amphitheatre, Dionigi Ear, the Grotticelle Necropolis, the Tomb of Archimede and the Catacombs
of Saint Giovanni with the primeval Crypt of Saint Marziano, Archeological Museum P. Orsi and the Madonna of the tears Sanctuary.