Neapolis Archaeological Area Aerial view of the archaeological park
		It includes the northern part of the Neapolis district (one of the five that made up Syracuse in the Greek and Roman ages), in which the most famous monuments of the city are found: the Greek theater (datable, in its current aspect, to the III century BC but existing since the second half of the V century BC), the Roman amphitheater (of controversial dating, attributed by some to Augustus, by others to Septimius Severus), the altar of Jerone II (a grandiose altar for the city's public sacrifices ) and the Via dei Sepolcri, of Hellenistic structure, deeply embedded in the rock and flanked by Byzantine hypogeums. At this extraordinary complex of monuments is the backdrop of the spectacular arc of the latomie del Paradiso and of S. Venera: ancient stone quarries that still bear the marks of extraction and in which they open, in a luxuriant vegetation of orange and secular trees, evocative and very large caves, including the Grotta dei Cordari and the Orecchio di Dionisio.
		Latomia (stone-quarry) of Paradise   Greek Theatre of Syracuse   Necropoli Grotticelli: area of the so-called Tomb of Archimedes
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