Syracuse
Syracuse is a former province in southeastern Sicily, Italy. Syracuse includes two UNESCO world heritage sites: the city of Syracuse and the rock necropolis of Pantalica and the baroque cities of the Val di Noto.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Syracuse and Noto.
Syracuse
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Syracuse is a city of 122,000 people on the eastern coast of Sicily. The city has a rich Greek and Roman history, culture, amphitheatres, and architecture.
Noto
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Noto is a city in Sicily, Italy, one of the eight world heritage listed "Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto".
Augusta
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Augusta is a town and comune in the province of Syracuse, located on the eastern coast of Sicily. The city is one of the main harbours in Italy, especially for oil refineries which are in its vicinity.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Palazzolo and Pantalica.
Palazzolo
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Palazzolo is a town of 8,000 people in the Syracuse province in the Hyblean Mountains. The town is listed as a world heritage site by UNESCO. The city has a lovely historic center.
Pantalica
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The Necropolis of Pantalica is a collection of cemeteries with rock-cut chamber tombs in southeast Sicily, Italy. Dating from the 13th to the 7th centuries BC, it was thought that the site held over 5,000 tombs, although the most recent estimate suggests a figure of just under 4,000.
Syracuse
- Type: former province of Italy with 399,000 residents
- Description: province of Italy
- Also known as: “Province of Syracuse”, “provincia di Siracusa”, “Siracusa province”, and “Syracuse province”
- Neighbors: Ragusa
- Location: Sicily, Italy, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Syracuse” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة سرقوسة”
- Aragonese: “Provincia de Siracusa”
- Armenian: “Սիրակուզա”
- Asturian: “Provincia de Siracusa”
- Azerbaijani: “Sirakuza əyaləti”
- Azerbaijani: “Sirakuza”
- Basque: “Sirakusako probintzia”
- Belarusian: “правінцыя Сіракуза”
- Belarusian: “Сіракуза (правінцыя)”
- Belarusian: “Сіракуза”
- Bengali: “সায়রাকুস-র প্রদেশ”
- Bosnian: “Sirakuza”
- Breton: “Proviñs Siracusa”
- Breton: “proviñs Sirakuza”
- Bulgarian: “Сиракуза”
- Catalan: “Província de Siracusa”
- Cebuano: “Provincia di Siracusa”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای سیراکوزێ”
- Chinese: “Siracusa Séng”
- Chinese: “錫拉庫薩省”
- Chinese: “锡拉库萨省”
- Croatian: “Sirakuza”
- Czech: “Provincie Siracusa”
- Danish: “provinsen Siracusa”
- Danish: “Siracusa”
- Dutch: “Syracuse”
- Esperanto: “provinco Sirakuzo”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Sirakuzo”
- Estonian: “Siracusa provints”
- Finnish: “Syrakusan maakunta”
- French: “province de Syracuse”
- French: “Province de Syracuse”
- French: “Syracuse”
- Galician: “Provincia de Siracusa”
- Georgian: “სირაკუზის პროვინცია”
- German: “IT-SR”
- German: “Provincia di Siracusa”
- German: “Provinz Siracusa”
- German: “Provinz Syrakus”
- German: “Syrakus”
- Greek: “Επαρχία των Συρακουσών”
- Greek: “Συρακούσες”
- Gujarati: “સિરેક્યુજ પ્રાંત”
- Hebrew: “סירקוזה”
- Hindi: “सायराक्रूस प्रांत”
- Hungarian: “Siracusa megye”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Sirakusa”
- Interlingua: “Provincia de Syracusa”
- Interlingua: “provincia Syracusa”
- Irish: “Cúige Syracuse”
- Italian: “provincia di Siracusa”
- Italian: “Provincia di Siracusa” (historical)
- Italian: “Siracusa”
- Italian: “Siracusano”
- Japanese: “シラクーザ県”
- Javanese: “Provinsi Siracusa”
- Kannada: “ಸಿರಾಕ್ಯೂಸ್ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Korean: “시라쿠사도”
- Ladin: “Provinzia de Siracusa”
- Ladino: “Provinsia de Sirakuza”
- Latin: “Provincia Regionalis Syracusana”
- Latin: “Provincia Syracusana”
- Latvian: “Sirakūzu province”
- Ligurian: “provinsa de Siracusa”
- Lithuanian: “Sirakūzų provincija”
- Lombard: “Pruvincia de Siracusa”
- Luxembourgish: “Provënz Syrakus”
- Macedonian: “Сиракуза”
- Malay: “Wilayah Siracusa”
- Malay: “Wilayah Syracuse”
- Maltese: “Provinċja ta‘ Sirakuża”
- Maltese: “Provinċja ta’ Sirakuża”
- Marathi: “सिराक्यूज प्रांत”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Siracusa Séng”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Provinsen av Syracuse”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Siracusa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Provinsen Siracusa”
- Norwegian: “Siracusa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Província de Siracusa”
- Persian: “استان سیراکوز”
- Piemontese: “Provincia ëd Siracusa”
- Polish: “Prowincja Syrakuzy”
- Portuguese: “Siracusa”
- Romanian: “Provincia Siracuza”
- Russian: “Сиракуза”
- Sardinian: “provìntzia de Siracusa”
- Sardinian: “Provìntzia de Siracusa”
- Scots: “Province o Syracuse”
- Serbian: “Сиракуза”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Siracusa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sirakuza”
- Sicilian: “Pruvincia di Sarausa”
- Sinhala: “සයිරකුස් පළාත”
- Slovenian: “pokrajina Siracusa”
- Slovenian: “pokrajina Sirakuze”
- Slovenian: “Pokrajina Sirakuze”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Siracusa”
- Spanish: “Siracusa”
- Swedish: “Siracusa”
- Swedish: “Syrakusa”
- Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Siracusa”
- Tagalog: “Siracusa”
- Tamil: “சிரகூஸ் மாகாணம்”
- Telugu: “ప్రావిన్స్ ఆఫ్ సైరాక్యూస్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดซีราคูซา”
- Turkish: “Siraküza ili”
- Turkish: “Siraküza”
- Ukrainian: “Провінція Сиракуза”
- Ukrainian: “Сиракуза”
- Urdu: “صوبہ سرقوسہ”
- Uzbek: “Siracusa”
- Venetian: “Lìbaro consòrsio comunałe de Siracuxa”
- Venetian: “Provincia de Siracuxa”
- Vietnamese: “Siracusa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Siracusa”
- Welsh: “Talaith Siracusa”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع سائراکیوز”
- Wu Chinese: “锡拉库萨省”
- “Provinge de Siracusa”
- “Provinge de Siracuse”
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