Posts on ‘August 13th, 2011’

From Siracusa, we drove West to Ragusa Ibla.  It was destroyed by an earthquake in 1693 and rebuilt.  Most of the architecture seems to be from around that period.  It is quite beautiful and definitely worth a visit. Ragusa has an upper city and a larger lower city, called Ragusa Ibla.  The latter is gotten […]

The next day we drove South and stopped in Siracusa, also known as Syracuse.  It was a major Greek city-state and the home of the famous mathematician and engineer Archimedes (of Eureka in the bathtub fame).  It has a huge Greek amphitheater and great architecture.  Here are a couple of pictures.  Unfortunately, we were there […]