Top Things to do in Syracuse
Top 5 Concerts & Shows in Syracuse, Sicily
Once one of ancient Greece’s most important cities, today Syracuse (Siracusa in Italian) is a lively town of about 125,000 on Sicily’s southeast coast. The city overflows with amazing remnants from its long history. Romans, Vandals and Normans are but a few of those who ruled here after the Greeks. In Syracuse’s harbor, Ortygia Island (also called Città Vecchia or Old City) is the site of many of the main attractions, including the seventh-century cathedral and the Fountain of Arethusa.
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1. Puppet Theatre - Siracusa
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4.5 based on 391 reviews
Reviewed By veronica59
If you're on holiday in Sicily, especially the Syracuse area, the "Opera dei Pupi" of Ortigia is not to be missed. For over a hundred years the same puppeteer family have been making their beautiful puppets (over 2 feet high), producing fascinating marionette plays which adapt medieval legends from Charlemagne to Crusaders, enacting battles between Saracens and Christians, giants and dragons, fair maidens and chivalrous knights. The magical charm of these plays is mesmerising. Though in Italian with some Sicilian dialect, the plays can be understood clearly by the action and are suitable for any age, including young children who will be swept into the fantastical kingdoms of long ago. (Each play is less than an hour long.) The adjoining puppet museum is also well worth visiting, a treasure-trove of beautiful workmanship and historical tradition.
2. Teatro Comunale Di Siracusa
3. Syracuse 3D Reborn
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4.0 based on 63 reviews
A VIRTUAL TOUR IN THE GREEK SYRACUSE: we would like to invite you to a 30 minutes show, made by IBAM (Institute for Cultural Heritage and Monumental Buildings of the National Council for Research), where you can see the foundation of the city by Corinthinans in 733 b.C. and his development until the end of the Greek Age. Detailed and accurated recostructions shows the main temples, the urban structure and the historical events of the old city. And in the last part you can see the mighty "Syracosia", an enormous ship designed by Archimedes, the famous scientist and mathematician of the ancient times, who born and lived in Syracuse. The show is available in 7 languages (Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Russian), winner of the "Cultural Heritage and New Technologies Conference of Wien" prize.
