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Testimonials
Hi
Michele! I want you to know that all of us on the tour think highly of Salvo,
you and Sicily TravelNet. I will be certain to recommend your tours to other cruisers
on a website for cruisers that I visit a lot. Thanks
again for all the help you gave us in planning this tour. We hope to return to
Sicily and tour with you again because there's still so much to see.
Bev
Shugg Barbeito | | | | | | 
Syracuse:
Ear of Dionysos
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Siracusa tour
Siracusa,
a World Heritage Site, was the second Greek colony to
have been founded in
Sicily in the second half of the 8th century B.C.
In its hey- day, Siracusa
rivaled Athens in size, importance and
prestige before falling to the Romans
in 212 AD. Described by Cicero
as ‘the greatest Greek city and the
most beautiful of all’, the city of Archimedes boasts one of the largest
concentration of Greek ruins outside of Greece. Ortigia's historic centre bear
witness to the
troubled history of Sicily, from the Byzantines to the Bourbons,
interspersed with the Arabs, the Normans, Hohenstaufen dynasty,
the Aragons
and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. | | | | |
The day
begins at the archeological park of the Neapolis where we can see the monolithic
Greek Theatre (its cavea is one of the largest ever built by the ancient
Greeks and still in use today for classical represantations), the sacrificial
Altar of Hieron II, the Ear of Dionisyus (an artificail limestone
quarry named by the painter Caravaggio) and
the Roman Amphitheatre.
We will then continue on to the island of Ortygia to see the temple of Apollo,
the oldest Doric style temple built in Sicily, the Cathedral which is one
of the most extraordinary buildings in the world due to the different architectual
styles overlapping one another. The tour ends at the fresh water spring of
Aretusa where the papyrus still grows abundantly. 
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Tour
type: private tour from Siracusa/Taormina/
Catania/ Messina hotel or a shore trip from Siracusa/ Messina/ Giardini Naxos/
Catania ports of call.
Chauffer- driven. On demand we can provide English
speaking driver/ guide and/or licensed tour guide. Time
duration: 7 hours Driving
time: from Giardini Naxos 1 hour 15 minutes, from Catania 50 minutes Departure
time: on demand Meeting
place for cruisers: Port of call pier: The guide/ driver will hold a sign
with clients' name.
Meeting place for travellers: your selected hotel
in Siracusa/ Taormina/Catania/ Messina Tour
cost: depends on the services requested (driver,
English speaking driver, licensed tour guide, driver/guide). Please ask for a
quote info@sicilytravel.net
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