In August 1948, the city of Syracuse celebrated its centennial. The celebration was going to be the largest civic event in the city's history. Syracuse streets and buildings were decorated, a ...

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 ...

Reporting from Syracuse, Italy — Back when Plato was philosophizing about virtue and Archimedes was defining pi, the most beautiful corner of the sprawling Greek Empire was Syracuse. That is Syracuse ...

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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Discover why Ortigia is the glittering jewel of southeastern Sicily.

A shipwreck carrying rare Roman pottery has surfaced three miles off the coast of Syracuse, Sicily—among the Vendicari Wildlife Oasis Orientata Nature Reserve. Two fishermen initially noticed strange ...

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SYRACUSE, Sicily, July 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The European project LemOn brings a slice of Sicily to Poland and Romania with the PGI Syracuse Lemon, an excellent Italian fruit grown exclusively ...