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Syracuse

Syracuse

Syracuse is a city of 122,000 people on the eastern coast of . The city has a rich Greek and Roman history, culture, amphitheatres, and architecture.
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  • Type: City with 116,000 residents
  • Description: Italian municipality
  • Also known as: “Siracusa”, “Syracus”, “Syracusa”, “Syracusae”, and “Syracuse, Sicily”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include City gate and Ear of Dionysius.

Archaeological site
Photo: CrniBombarder!!!, Public domain.
A is a gate which is, or was, set within a city wall. It is a type of fortified gateway.

Cave
Photo: fpalazzi, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is a limestone cave carved out of the Temenites hill in the city of Syracuse, on the island of in . Its name, given by the painter Michelangelo da Caravaggio, comes from its similarity in shape to the human ear.

Theater building
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The lies on the south slopes of the Temenite hill, overlooking the modern city of Syracuse in southeastern Sicily, Italy. It was first built in the 5th century BC, rebuilt in the 3rd century BC and renovated again in the Roman period.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ortygia and Santa Panagia.

Quarter
Photo: Codas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a small which is the historical centre of the city of Syracuse, . The island, also known as the Città Vecchia, contains many historical landmarks. The name originates from the Ancient Greek órtyx, which means "quail".

Neighborhood
Photo: fotovideomike, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a neighborhood.

Syracuse

Latitude
37.0646° or 37° 3′ 53″ north
Longitude
15.2907° or 15° 17′ 27″ east
Population
116,000
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
IATA airport code
QIC
United Nations Location Code
IT SIR
Open location code
8F9Q377R+R7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1932675079
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2523083
Wiki­data ID
Q13670
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Syracuse” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sirakuse”
  • Arabic: “سرقوسة”
  • Arabic: “سَرَقُوسَة”
  • Arabic: “سيراقوسة”
  • Arabic: “سيراكوز”
  • Aragonese: “Siracusa”
  • Armenian: “Սիրակուզա”
  • Armenian: “Սիրաքյուս”
  • Asturian: “Siracusa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sirakuz”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sirakuza”
  • Basque: “Sirakusa”
  • Belarusian: “Сіракуза”
  • Belarusian: “Сыракуза”
  • Belarusian: “Сыракузы”
  • Bengali: “সিরাকুজা”
  • Breton: “Siracusa”
  • Breton: “Sirakuza”
  • Bulgarian: “Сиракуза”
  • Burmese: “ဆီရာကျုစ်”
  • Catalan: “Siracusa”
  • Cebuano: “Siracusa”
  • Chechen: “Сиракуза”
  • Chinese: “Syracuse, Sicily”
  • Chinese: “叙拉古”
  • Chinese: “敘拉古”
  • Chinese: “斯拉古薩”
  • Chinese: “錫拉庫薩”
  • Chinese: “锡拉库扎”
  • Chinese: “锡拉库萨”
  • Chuvash: “Сиракуза”
  • Corsican: “Siracusa”
  • Cree: “Siracusa”
  • Croatian: “Sirakuza”
  • Czech: “Syrakusy”
  • Danish: “Siracusa”
  • Danish: “Syrakus”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Sirakuza”
  • Dutch: “Syracuse”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سرقوسه”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سيراكوزا”
  • Esperanto: “Sirakuzo”
  • Estonian: “Siracusa”
  • Finnish: “Syrakusa”
  • French: “Siracusa”
  • French: “Syracuse”
  • Galician: “Siracusa”
  • Georgian: “სირაკუზა”
  • German: “Saraùsa”
  • German: “Syracus”
  • German: “Syracusae”
  • German: “Syrakus”
  • German: “Syrakusai”
  • Greek: “Συρακούσες”
  • Guarani: “Sirakúsa”
  • Gujarati: “સિરેક્યુસ”
  • Hebrew: “סירקוזה”
  • Hindi: “सेराक्युस”
  • Hungarian: “Siracusa”
  • Icelandic: “Sýrakúsa”
  • Ido: “Siracusa”
  • Indonesian: “Sirakusa”
  • Interlingua: “Syracusa”
  • Irish: “Sioracús, an tSicil”
  • Irish: “Sioracús”
  • Italian: “Siracusa, Sicilia”
  • Italian: “Siracusa”
  • Italian: “Syracusae”
  • Japanese: “シラクサ”
  • Kannada: “ಸೈರಕುಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Сиракузы”
  • Korean: “시라쿠사”
  • Kotava: “Siracusa”
  • Kurdish: “Syracuse, Sîsîlya”
  • Kurdish: “Syracuse”
  • Ladin: “Siracusa”
  • Latin: “Syracusae”
  • Latvian: “Sirakūzas”
  • Ligurian: “Siracusa”
  • Lithuanian: “Sirakūzai”
  • Lombard: “Siracüsa”
  • Luxembourgish: “Siracusa”
  • Macedonian: “Сиракуза”
  • Malay: “Siracusa”
  • Malay: “Syracuse”
  • Maltese: “Siracusa”
  • Marathi: “स्यराक्यूज”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Syracuse”
  • Mingrelian: “სირაკუზა”
  • Neapolitan: “Siracusa”
  • Northern Frisian: “Syrakus”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Siracusa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Siracusa”
  • Norwegian: “Siracusa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Siracusa”
  • Ossetian: “Сиракузæ”
  • Persian: “سیراکوز”
  • Piemontese: “Siracusa”
  • Polish: “Syrakuzy”
  • Portuguese: “Siracusa”
  • Quechua: “Siracusa”
  • Romanian: “Siracuza, Sicilia”
  • Romanian: “Siracuza”
  • Russian: “Сиракуза”
  • Russian: “Сиракузы”
  • Sardinian: “Siracusa”
  • Scots: “Syracuse, Sicily”
  • Scots: “Syracuse”
  • Serbian: “Сиракуза”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sirakuza”
  • Sicilian: “Saragusa”
  • Sicilian: “Sarausa”
  • Silesian: “Siracusa”
  • Sinhala: “සයිරකුස්”
  • Slovak: “Syrakúzy”
  • Slovenian: “Sirakuze”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سیراکوز”
  • Spanish: “Siracusa”
  • Spanish: “Zaragoza”
  • Swahili: “Siracusa”
  • Swedish: “Syrakusa”
  • Swiss German: “Syrakus”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Siracusa”
  • Tagalog: “Siracusa”
  • Tamil: “சிரகுசே”
  • Tamil: “சிரக்கூசா, சிசிலி”
  • Tamil: “சிரக்கூசா”
  • Tamil: “சைரக்யூஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Сиракуз”
  • Telugu: “సైరాకస్”
  • Thai: “ซีรากูซา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Syrakus”
  • Turkish: “Siracusa”
  • Turkish: “Siraküza”
  • Turkish: “Syracusae”
  • Twi: “Siracusa”
  • Twi: “Syracuse, Sicily”
  • Ukrainian: “Сиракуза”
  • Ukrainian: “Сіракуза”
  • Urdu: “سرقوسہ، صقلیہ”
  • Urdu: “سرقوسہ”
  • Uzbek: “Siracusa”
  • Venetian: “Siracuxa”
  • Vietnamese: “Siracusa”
  • Volapük: “Siracusa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Siracusa”
  • Welsh: “Siracusa”
  • Western Panjabi: “سائراکوز”
  • Wu Chinese: “锡拉库扎”
  • Yue Chinese: “敘拉古”
  • “Siracusa”
  • “Siracuse”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Syracuse”. Photo: Salvo Cannizzaro, CC BY-SA 3.0.