Temple of Apollo
Baroque balconies - Ortygia
Anthony Blunt admired the Palazzo Benevenuto del Bosco, whose courtyard this is. It’s across the street from the Duomo, so the owner must have been moderately important. Later occupants included Horatio Nelson.
The courtyard
A more modest courtyard, no less seductive.
The greek theatre
The Roman Theatre
The chapel of the Maltese knights
The port – where Ortygia is separated from the rest of the pentepolis.
And here is the bridge that joins Ortygia to the mainland.
Lunch – well, it’s in the post.
And it’s still in the post
The church of St John the Baptist in Syracuse.