ortygia

The Cathedral of Syracuse

By |2018-01-19T09:34:24+02:00May 20th, 2015|Conoscere Ortygia, Senza categoria, TAG E|

"Take a greek temple, incorporate it in full in a Christian building, to which you add later a Norman façade that is struck by the great earthquake of 1693. Without discouraging you, and put back to work, completely changing direction, replace the old facade with a delicious Baroque composition of roughly 1728-54. And the [...]

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The island of Ortygia

By |2018-01-19T09:34:24+02:00May 20th, 2015|Conoscere Ortygia, Senza categoria, TAG E|

The island of Ortygia Ortygia has a link, due to its name, with the Greek island in the Aegean Sea, Delos (Delo in Italian). The Greek island is part of Unesco's World Heritage List, just like Ortigia in Syracuse, Sicily. Their bond is identical in their name; In fact, both in antiquity they were [...]

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The fountain of Diana

By |2018-01-19T09:34:24+02:00May 20th, 2015|Conoscere Ortygia, Senza categoria, TAG E|

    The fountain of Diana The fountain, built in 1906 by the sculptor Giulio Piceno Muskets, tells the story of the nymph Arethusa, who escapes from Alfeo, protected by the goddess Diana. The buildings overlooking the square sum up all of the island's history, from the Middle Ages to the present day. Clockwise [...]

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The temple of Apollo

By |2018-01-19T09:34:25+02:00April 3rd, 2015|Conoscere Ortygia, Senza categoria, TAG E|

  (APOLLONION) is one of the most important monuments of Ortigia, in front of the square Pancali in Syracuse, it is dated in early sixth century BC and is therefore the oldest Doric temple in Sicily or at least the first corresponding to the model that was firmed across the Hellenic world of peripteral temple [...]

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