The island is just the beginning.
Step outside the palazzo and choose a street. Pause in a square, enter a museum, make your way to the sea. You can get to know Ortigia without a packed programme: a walk can take as much time as you wish to give it.
Inside the cathedral, the columns of the Temple of Athena remain part of the space you walk through. Among palazzi, courtyards and passageways, this is how Ortigia reveals its history: one age held within another.
Discovery continues beyond the island, among Syracuse’s archaeological park, museums and catacombs. Then, during the classical theatre season, comes the moment to take your seat at the Greek Theatre and let the performance draw you in.
A swim, salt on your skin, time to linger. Spend a day on the coast or let the wind carry you aboard a sailing yacht.
Another moment in the courtyard, an aperitivo, the comfort of your room. Coming back is part of the holiday, too.
Look at the city. Recognise its stories.
In the breakfast room, the chart Ortigia, struttura e dinamiche traces the island’s transformations through maps, historic cartography and a timeline. Explore it before you go out, then look for the traces that caught your interest as you walk.
Maps and traces reveal the island’s transformations, inviting you to look at it afresh.
Preview in Italian
A single zoomable chart — not an up-to-date street map.
Original title: Ortigia, struttura e dinamiche.
The chart traces the island’s transformations: maps and historic cartography follow one another in chronological order, and a timeline sums up the ages that have layered over time.
It is not an up-to-date street map: it is a single chart, made to be zoomed into, and it requires no previous/next controls.