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Thursday, May 8, 2008

Siracusa, Sicily

We are visiting Siracusa today. Tomorrow we will go for a few hours to Di Vendicari nature reserve nearby to see waterbirds. Saturday we meet our amigos from Austin here in Siracusa.


Located near the southeastern corner of Sicily on the Ionian coast, Siracusa (Syracuse) is built on an ancient Greek settlement founded by Corinthians in 734 BC. More than any other modern city in Sicily, Syracuse manifests a visible continuity from its ancient Greek past. It was the most important city in Magna Graecia, with a population of around 300,000, and for a time rivaled Athens as the most important city of the Greek world.

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