A trip to the Necròpolis of Pantalica is like a path through time. Wherever the landscape is dominated by the limestone rock in a labyrinth of caves, caverns, ravines, canyons pierced by more than five thousand sepulchres. Even today you can enter the necropolis and see the walls of ancient tombs...

Visitors to the remains of ancient Greek Syracuse will be impressed by the enormous amount of stone used to build the city. Syracuse, like most of south-eastern Sicily, is rich in large strata of white limestone. This material was widely used for civic, religious and military constructions. For ...

Among the waters of the Arethusa spring, you can spot the papyrus plant (Cyperus papyrus): an aquatic plant imported from Egypt. [dettaglio_immagine id="18769"] Papyrus plants are formed of tall, stiff stalks, whose stem appears very hard and woody to the touch. Inflorescences with a radius from ...

A trip to the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica is like a journey through time. The landscape is dominated by limestone rock in a labyrinth of caves, caverns, ravines and canyons containing more than five thousand tombs. Even today it is still possible to access the inside of the necropolis and touch ...

"Giuggiulena" is a dialectal term used by Sicilians to refer to the white stone of Syracuse: a sedimentary rock typical of the quarries of the Hyblaean Mountains. This type of stone was formed in the Miocene (a geological era that began around 20 million years ago). Its colour is defined by severa...

Among the waters of the Fountain of Arethusa you can spot the papyrus plant: an aquatic plant that comes from Egypt. Papyrus plants have a thin, hard and woody stem. Inflorescences with a radius from 10 to 30 centimetres stick out from the stems, carrying strawcoloured spikes. If you pass your han...

In the Latomie, the Cordari (rope makers) of Syracuse carried out a craft deeply rooted in Sicilian culture: they made rope by working vegetable fibres with their hands. The work of the rope maker was silent and repetitive, using always the same gestures, the same steps back and forth from dawn to ...