IMG_2127 - This passage and pit under the floor were for the stage machinery used during the shows.
IMG_2129 - In 287 BC Archimedes was born in Syracuse and died in 212 BC, at the end of the Roman siege that captured it.
IMG_2137 - The aptly named "bottle brush" shrub.
IMG_2138 - Statue of Archimedes, on the Ponte Umbertino to Ortygia, site of the original Greek settlement in Syracuse.
IMG_2142 - The flag and triskelion symbol of triangular Sicily. Buildings on the island of Ortygia.
IMG_2144 - Ortygia was the first of the "pentopoli", the 5 cities of Syracuse, so has many layers of remains.
IMG_2147 - Dating from 610 BC, the Temple of Apollo on Ortygia was the most ancient Doric temple in Western Europe.
IMG_2148 - In 640 AD it became a Byzantine church, then in turn, an Islamic mosque, and a Norman church.
IMG_2150 - The narrow streets of the Cittą Vecchia (Old City) of Ortygia near the Temple of Apollo.
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