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2. The best luxury and boutique hotels in Sicily for spa ... - AOL

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   Best hotel in Taormina: San Domenico Palace. Best hotel in Syracuse: Hotel Des Étrangers. Most beautiful hotel: Q92 Noto. Best hotel for families: Grand Hotel Timeo. Best hotel for couples: The ...

3. Syracuse, Sicily - Wikipedia

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   Syracuse is located in the southeast corner of the island of Sicily, next to the Gulf of Syracuse beside the Ionian Sea. It is situated in a drastic rise of land with 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) depths being close to the city offshore although the city itself is generally not so hilly in comparison.

4. Fountain of Arethusa - Wikipedia

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   The Fountain of Arethusa (Italian: Fonte Aretusa, Ancient Greek: Ἀρέθουσα [1]) is a natural spring on the island of Ortygia in the historical centre of the city of Syracuse in Sicily. According to Greek mythology , this freshwater fountain is the place where the nymph Arethusa , the patron figure of ancient Syracuse, returned to Earth ...

5. Ortygia - Wikipedia

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   Ortygia (/ ɔːr ˈ t ɪ dʒ i ə / or-TIJ-ee-ə; Italian: Ortigia [orˈtiːdʒa]; Ancient Greek: Ὀρτυγία, romanized: Ortygía) is a small island which is the historical centre of the city of Syracuse, Sicily. The island, also known as the Città Vecchia (Old City), contains many historical landmarks.

6. Greek Theatre of Syracuse - Wikipedia

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   Théatre de Syracuse, end of the eighteenth century At the end of the eighteenth century, interest in the theatre revived and it was mentioned and depicted by the erudites of the period (Arezzo, Fazello , Mirabella, Bonanni) and by famous travellers (d'Orville, von Riedesel , [ n 1 ] Jean-Claude Richard , Houel , Denon , [ n 2 ] etc.).

7. Temple of Apollo (Syracuse) - Wikipedia

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   Floor plan. The temple's stylobate measures 55.36 x 21.47 metres, with its very squat columns in a 6 x 17 arrangement. It represents the moment of transition in the Greek west between temples with a wooden structure and those built completely out of stone, with a hexastyle front and a continuous colonnade around the perimeter which surrounds the pronaos and a naos divided into three aisles by ...