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Secrets of Syracuse Ortigia Self Guided Walking Tour
(3) Reviews
Free municipal consortium of Syracuse
Important Information
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Service animals allowed
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Public transportation options are available nearby
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Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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Please carry a charged smartphone and headphones with you for the best experience
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This tour does not follow the wheelchair accessible route to all points and hence we are not recommending it for those travelers who require wheelchair access.
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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Syracuse keeps losing its greatest treasures. The largest ship of the ancient world, given away. Its patron saint, carried off to Venice. Temple doors of ivory and gold, bronze rams, magnificent statues, all gone. The one thing no one could steal was the stories, and this self-guided audio tour hands them to you, one stop at a time. Walk Ortigia, the island where the city began, from a harbour that swallowed an Athenian fleet to a cathedral built inside a Greek temple older than the Parthenon. Meet Archimedes, a killer painter named Caravaggio, a Jewish community who sealed their ritual bath in the rock, hoping to return one day, and a saint whose eyes made her the patron of light. The app g...
Highlights
From 2 hours to 3 hours
Offered in German (Deutsch) & 8 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 2 hours to 3 hours
Offered in German (Deutsch) & 8 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
100% Satisfaction Guarantee: If you don’t love the tour, write to us for a full refund.
Audio and written guide included
Offline access to the tour (no internet connection needed) once tour is downloaded
Images to identify stops and in app interactive map for navigation
1-year access on iOS & Android. Listen to the tour anytime, as many times as you like
Check or search your inbox for an email from “Tourific” with tour access instructions.
Any physical devices or headphones
Human tour guide at location
Meeting Points
Departure
Porto Grande Siracusa
This is a self-guided audio tour on the "Tourific self-guided tours" app. To activate the tour, check your email for instructions from Tourific or your booking platform sent right after booking. Can’t find it? Search for “Tourific” in your email inbox and spam folder. OR contact us via support.
Return
Arethusa Spring
Itinerary
1
Porto Grande Siracusa
Stand above the bay that swallowed the largest fleet Athens ever sent to war.
12 minutes
2
Statue of Archimedes
Meet the man who sank Roman warships with nothing but his mind.
12 minutes
3
Ortigia Street Market,
Trace a market ritual that has sounded the same since the first Greek ships tied up here.
10 minutes
4
Peer beneath a plain Baroque church whose floor hides quarries, catacombs, and a wartime shelter.
8 minutes
5
Alla Giudecca
Search for what a vanished Jewish community sealed in the rock, hoping someone would return.
6
Palazzo Vermexio
Hunt for the tiny lizard an architect carved into the town hall to answer an insult.
7
Duomo di Siracusa
Look up at Doric columns older than the Parthenon, hidden inside the cathedral walls like fossils.
8
Follow a tunnel where families hid from bombs, guarding the silver saint the city kept losing.
9
Chiesa di Santa Lucia alla Badia
See the altarpiece a fugitive painter made while wanted for murder, its darkness swallowing the canvas
10 minutes
10
Fonte Aretusa
Find the freshwater spring where a hunted nymph surfaced, still growing Europe's rare wild papyrus.
8 minutes
Secrets of Syracuse Ortigia Self Guided Walking Tour
(3) Reviews
Free municipal consortium of Syracuse
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Syracuse keeps losing its greatest treasures. The largest ship of the ancient world, given away. Its patron saint, carried off to Venice. Temple doors of ivory and gold, bronze rams, magnificent statues, all gone. The one thing no one could steal was the stories, and this self-guided audio tour hands them to you, one stop at a time. Walk Ortigia, the island where the city began, from a harbour that swallowed an Athenian fleet to a cathedral built inside a Greek temple older than the Parthenon. Meet Archimedes, a killer painter named Caravaggio, a Jewish community who sealed their ritual bath in the rock, hoping to return one day, and a saint whose eyes made her the patron of light. The app g...
Highlights
From 2 hours to 3 hours
Offered in German (Deutsch) & 8 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 2 hours to 3 hours
Offered in German (Deutsch) & 8 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
100% Satisfaction Guarantee: If you don’t love the tour, write to us for a full refund.
Audio and written guide included
Offline access to the tour (no internet connection needed) once tour is downloaded
Images to identify stops and in app interactive map for navigation
1-year access on iOS & Android. Listen to the tour anytime, as many times as you like
Check or search your inbox for an email from “Tourific” with tour access instructions.
Any physical devices or headphones
Human tour guide at location
Meeting Points
Departure
Porto Grande Siracusa
This is a self-guided audio tour on the "Tourific self-guided tours" app. To activate the tour, check your email for instructions from Tourific or your booking platform sent right after booking. Can’t find it? Search for “Tourific” in your email inbox and spam folder. OR contact us via support.
