Guidebook for Syracuse
Food Scene
really good and big panini! cheeses and ham, salami and typical products
Perfect for lunch
138 locals recommend
Caseificio Borderi
6 Via Emmanuele de Benedictisreally good and big panini! cheeses and ham, salami and typical products
Perfect for lunch
one of the best restaurant in town, fresh fish and pasta, very good but quite small place so booking is recommended!
53 locals recommend
Ristorante Sicilia in Tavola
28 Via Cavourone of the best restaurant in town, fresh fish and pasta, very good but quite small place so booking is recommended!
Kaos Pizza
7 Piazza Minervaa nice location and a good pizza together , not easy to find
Comari
really close to the apartment, vegetarian sicilian food.
good and original
A Putia
8 Via Romafamiliar sicilian food,
Street food not a real restaurant but good and convenient. Fish and chips the sicilian way
Via Roma, 123
123 Via RomaStreet food not a real restaurant but good and convenient. Fish and chips the sicilian way
Via Roma, 39
39 Via Romagood genuine ice cream made with excellent local ingredients
excellent food in a charming and elegant location, a magnificent historical building, with a top service.
21 locals recommend
Ristorante Regina Lucia
6 Piazza Duomoexcellent food in a charming and elegant location, a magnificent historical building, with a top service.
La Cambusa
9 Passeggio AretusaGood fresh fish and real Sushi!
Wonderful fresh granite, cremolate and ice cream. All of that to taste with a big traditional Brioche.
The Owner is really nice, frendly always there to help you. It worth a visit!
14 locals recommend
Foro Vittorio Emanuele II
Foro Vittorio Emanuele IIWonderful fresh granite, cremolate and ice cream. All of that to taste with a big traditional Brioche.
The Owner is really nice, frendly always there to help you. It worth a visit!
Essentials
fresh food market, colorful and full of the best vegetables fish and typical products, it worth a visit to taste the real sicilian mood
16 locals recommend
Via del Mercato
Via del Mercatofresh food market, colorful and full of the best vegetables fish and typical products, it worth a visit to taste the real sicilian mood
Via della Maestranza, 80
80 Via della Maestranzaclose to the apartment
Gusto Ortigia Market
80 Via della MaestranzaShopping
A really creative shop art-gallery, everything is made by the international artist Angela Matera.
L'Arte Per Inciso Di Matera Angela
34 Via CavourA really creative shop art-gallery, everything is made by the international artist Angela Matera.
Via Capodieci, 42
42 Via Capodiecireally eccentric and different pottery
Drinks & Nightlife
Via Dei Mergulensi, 39
39 Via dei Mergulensia nice location to take your breakfast or a coffe or a good aperitivo
Nice lounge bar with great cocktails also with fresh fruit and non alcoholic
Via Pompeo Picherali, 10
10 Via Pompeo PicheraliNice lounge bar with great cocktails also with fresh fruit and non alcoholic
Sightseeing
The Castello Maniace is a citadel and castle, It is situated at the far point of the Ortygia island promontory, Here, during the summer , there are in concerts and events
198 locals recommend
Maniace Castle
51 Via Castello ManiaceThe Castello Maniace is a citadel and castle, It is situated at the far point of the Ortygia island promontory, Here, during the summer , there are in concerts and events
The gallery illustrates the development of figurative Syracuse and more generally in the south-eastern Sicily, with particular regard to paintings and decorative arts.
115 locals recommend
Bellomo Palace Regional Gallery
14 Via CapodieciThe gallery illustrates the development of figurative Syracuse and more generally in the south-eastern Sicily, with particular regard to paintings and decorative arts.
Piazza Duomo in Syracuse is strongly suggestive, and is considered among the most beautiful squares in Italy.
190 locals recommend
Piazza Duomo
Piazza DuomoPiazza Duomo in Syracuse is strongly suggestive, and is considered among the most beautiful squares in Italy.
This is a nice church on its own, but the prize is the Caravaggio "Burial of Santa Lucia" -
9 locals recommend
Via Santa Lucia alla Badia
Via Santa Lucia alla BadiaThis is a nice church on its own, but the prize is the Caravaggio "Burial of Santa Lucia" -
The right place to go swimming and to cool off in ortigia, very close to the apartment
32 locals recommend
Solarium Forte Vigliena
The right place to go swimming and to cool off in ortigia, very close to the apartment
In the basement of the Residence "Alla Giudecca" is located, at 18 meters of depth, the biggest and oldest Jewish ritual bath in Europe.
guided tour possible everyday from 9:00 to 19:00.
44 locals recommend
Bagno ebraico - Mikveh
52 Via G.B. AlagonaIn the basement of the Residence "Alla Giudecca" is located, at 18 meters of depth, the biggest and oldest Jewish ritual bath in Europe.
guided tour possible everyday from 9:00 to 19:00.
a set of underground tunnels used during the Second World War as a refuge from bombing (Siracusa was bombed first by the Allies and then by the Germans). The exit from the tunnels is on the waterfront
58 locals recommend
Ipogeo di Piazza Duomo
Piazza Duomoa set of underground tunnels used during the Second World War as a refuge from bombing (Siracusa was bombed first by the Allies and then by the Germans). The exit from the tunnels is on the waterfront
the Fonte Aretusa (on the western shore) is a fresh-water spring whose history goes back to the earliest Greek colonists.
97 locals recommend
Arethusa Spring
Largo Aretusathe Fonte Aretusa (on the western shore) is a fresh-water spring whose history goes back to the earliest Greek colonists.
Duomo
Siracusa's Duomo is one of the town's most celebrated sights. The building records the many ages of the town. Once it was the Greek Temple of Athena
164 locals recommend
Cathedral of Syracuse
5 Piazza DuomoDuomo
Siracusa's Duomo is one of the town's most celebrated sights. The building records the many ages of the town. Once it was the Greek Temple of Athena
The Ionic Temple or Artemision is located in the area where can be identified the deepest roots of ancient Syracuse.
12 locals recommend
Artemision
11 Piazza MinervaThe Ionic Temple or Artemision is located in the area where can be identified the deepest roots of ancient Syracuse.
Interesting museum to get acquainted with the story of papyrus, its uses and new research. You can visit in less than an hour.
maybe a little bit expensive
40 locals recommend
Museo del Papiro Corrado Basile
14 Via NizzaInteresting museum to get acquainted with the story of papyrus, its uses and new research. You can visit in less than an hour.
maybe a little bit expensive
This vast archaeological park contains Siracusa's greatest concentration of ruins, Latomie, Greek theater, The Roman Amphitheater and "Ear of Dionysius"
230 locals recommend
Archaeological Park of Neapolis
This vast archaeological park contains Siracusa's greatest concentration of ruins, Latomie, Greek theater, The Roman Amphitheater and "Ear of Dionysius"
This is what remains of the early 6th-century BC Temple of Apollo, the first Doric temple in Sicily.
151 locals recommend
Temple of Apollo
Largo XXV LuglioThis is what remains of the early 6th-century BC Temple of Apollo, the first Doric temple in Sicily.