Syracuse and Ortigia : Tour with App and 19 Audioguides

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Syracuse and Ortigia : Tour with App and 19 Audioguides

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6h
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Overview

Discover Syracuse with an immersive and flexible experience that combines culture, technology and wellness. Thanks to the i-Tourist app and 19 audio guides, you can explore the city in total freedom directly from your smartphone, following an immersive path through history, art and myth.

From the enchantment of the island of Ortigia to the majesty of the Duomo built on the ancient temple of Athena, to the Archaeological Park of Neapolis with the famous Greek Theatre, each stop tells centuries of Mediterranean civilisations. The audio narration will accompany you step by step through baroque alleys, views of the sea and symbolic places such as the Fonte Aretusa.

The experience also takes a holistic approach: the pace of the tour is free and invites you to experience the city with greater awareness, letting yourself be guided by the stories, atmosphere and energy of the places. An authentic and personal way to connect with Syracuse, perfect for all ages.

Activity location

Church of Saint John Baptist
- Piazza del Precursore
- 96100, Siracusa, Sicilia, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

Piazza Duomo
- Piazza Duomo
- 96100, Siracusa, Sicilia, Italy

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Syracuse and Ortigia : Tour with App and 19 Audioguides

6h
English

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NZ$22.32 x 1 AdultNZ$22.32

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25% off

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Support / technical assistance in case of problems during use
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Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Public transport options are available nearby
Transport options are wheelchair accessible
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Church of Saint John Baptist

This complex was born in the early centuries of Christianity, above a vast funerary area carved into the rock. Here the ancient city had already left a mark: originally it was a ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Maniace Castle

20m
Admission ticket not included

This castle was founded between 1232 and 1240 by Frederick II of Swabia, a cultured, visionary emperor, fascinated by the order of the universe, astronomy and the harmony between rationality and spirit. It's not a minor detail: every wall you see has been... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Chiesa dello Spirito Santo

You are about to enter a place that is not just a church, but a threshold. The Church of the Holy Spirit overlooks the sea of Ortigia as if it wanted to remind you that every authentic journey is always a dialogue between inside and outside, between what you see and what ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Chiesa di San Filippo Apostolo

This church was born in the eighteenth century, in the midst of the great reconstruction after the earthquake of 1693. The date that is handed down is 1743. But as often happens in Syracuse, the true age of the place is not measured only in years : here the time is ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Chiesa di Santa Lucia alla Badia

His storey is a storey of falls and rebirths. A women's monastery already existed here in the fifteenth century, but everything changed after the great earthquake of 1693, when Syracuse was deeply wounded. The church you see today was born from that wound: rebuilt between the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, under the Guide of the architect Luciano Caracciolo, it became part of the ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Duomo di Siracusa

You are walking on a ground that in the fifth century BC was home to the Temple of Athena, goddess of wisdom and protection. A temple so powerful that it crosses the centuries without being demolished, but absorbed, integrated, transfigured. When in the 7th century AD the building became a Christian church, the past was not erased: it was ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Fonte Aretusa

This fresh water that flows a few metres from the sea was already sacred in Greek times. For the ancients it was not a curious Superstar, but a sign of the divine emerging from the earth. Here the water was not only used to quench thirst ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Lungomare Alfeo

Lungomare Alfeo with Meditation “The Call of Alfeo”. You are walking along the Lungomare Alfeo, one of the oldest and thinnest places in Syracuse. Time doesn't run here: breathe. Every step you take rests on almost three thousand years of history, of civilisations that have looked at the same sea, with the same inner questions that perhaps you too bring ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Palazzo Bellomo

15m
Admission ticket not included

You are in one of the most significant medieval palaces of Ortigia, now home to the Regional Gallery of Palazzo Bellomo. Its history begins between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, at a time when Syracuse was a crossroads of power, faith and trade. The palace takes its name from the Bellomo family, who transformed and expanded it, leaving visible traces of ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Palazzo Benevantano del Bosco

15m
Admission ticket not included

The palace was built on older structures, already in the fifteenth century, when Syracuse was a crossroads of civil and religious power. Over the centuries it has been the seat of the city Senate, the Queen's Chamber, a place of government and decision-making. After the great earthquake of 1693, which deeply wounded the city and the soul of eastern Sicily, this building, like many others, knew ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Palazzo Montalto

15m
Admission ticket not included

We are at the end of the fourteenth century. It is 1397 when a Syracusan noblewoman, Macciotta Mergulese, decided to build this house. It does so by engraving a Latin dedication on the stone : not for vanity, but to leave a trace. In a time when everything was fragile, stone became ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Palazzo Vermexio

This building was born between 1629 and 1633, at a time when Syracuse felt the need to affirm order, stability, identity. It is attributed to Giovanni Vermexio, a cultured and attentive architect, and from the beginning it was thought of as ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Parco Archeologico della Neapolis

20m
Admission ticket not included

Here, more than two thousand years ago, the life of the Greek Syracuse flowed intensely. This space, then outside the city walls, was a threshold: no longer an urban centre, not yet untouched nature. Perhaps that is why even today the Neapolis conveys a feeling of ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Piazza Archimede

Piazza Archimede welcomes those who arrive with a subtle feeling of balance, as if here space and time have found a silent agreement. Its name recalls Archimedes, the great Syracuse scientist, symbol of harmony between rational mind and invisible laws of the universe. It is no coincidence that this square is a ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Basilica Santuario Santa Lucia al Sepolcro

15m
Admission ticket not included

This shrine houses one of the oldest and most intense places of Sicilian Christianity: the tomb of Saint Lucia, a Syracusan martyr who lived between the third and fourth centuries after Christ. According to tradition, Lucy suffered martyrdom in 304 AD.C., during the persecutions of Emperor Diocletian. His body was laid to rest... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Temple of Apollo (Tempio di Apollo)

The temple was built in the first decades of the sixth century BC and is considered the oldest Doric temple in Sicily. When the Greek colonists arrived in this land, they felt the need to consecrate space, to give a ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Via Cavour

Via Cavour was born as a noble residential axis between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when the most influential families chose this stretch to build their homes. It was not a commercial street, nor a noisy passageway: it was a space designed for ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Via della Maestranza

This street was born as the home of the workers, the artisans, the custodians of manual knowledge. Each stone tells the repeated, patient gesture of those who built not only to live, but to leave a trace ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Via Roma 44, Ortigia

Via Roma was born between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, during a period of profound transformation of Ortigia. It was designed as an elegant, orderly, almost solemn axis, to connect the centre of civil and religious power with the ... Listen to the Full Audio Guide!

Location

Activity location

Church of Saint John Baptist
- Piazza del Precursore
- 96100, Siracusa, Sicilia, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

Piazza Duomo
- Piazza Duomo
- 96100, Siracusa, Sicilia, Italy

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