Siracusa was a Greek colony. Aeschylus premiered here and Archimedes ran down the street shouting 'Eureka'.One picture is on his reputed tomb. Clever and arty people lived here a very long time ago.
This is where Arethusa was turned into a spring in order to escape some demanding god's attentions. The spring has papyrus growing in it.
Carravaggio escaped here from prison on Malta. He apparently named this cave as the 'Ear of Dionysus'. Certainly the acoustics are great in it. I think you could hear a whisper.
There is a Carravaggio in the Basillica of St Lucy. It is of her internment after her beheading but Carravaggio has kindly given her only a nick on her neck. The pillar in the Basillica is supposed to be the actual one she died next to. The Siracusa cathedral has a relic of her arm. Most of the other bits of her were stolen and ended up in Venice
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