4 Day - Syracuse, Palazzolo Acreide and return home

And now, start your visit from this incredible church: the Cathedral of Syracuse, where Saint Lucy is worshipped! This is a unique monument, an ancient Greek Temple, transformed in a Christian Church. You can easily distinguish the doric columns on the external side of the Church and inside: it's great! Here in Duomo square, during the Greek times there was the main religious space of the city, with two temples built: the temples of Athena and Arthemis. If you want to imagine how this space could appeared in the past, here is a 3D reconstruction!

This fountain celebrates a great myth, on which the foundation itself of Syracuse is based: Arethusa, in Greek mythology, was a nymph who gave her name to this spring on the island of Ortygia.