U sarausano è lisciu (Siracusa’s man is calm), no other sentence could better describe the soul of people of Siracusa.
People in Siracusa are welcoming and joyful like all Sicilians, but they have the peculiarity of being lisci, this means slow, calm like tired.
The sun of Siracusa beats like in no other Sicilian place and this apparent flatness of life derives from the exposure to strong sun rays.
Siracusa’s man spends his summer days warming his bones in the sun and cooling his skin at the sea. After a dive near one of the many cliffs, it is not rare to see the man resurfaces holding a padedda (clam) or a knife with a couple of sea urchins, that he enjoys sitting on some flat rock having a lot of laughs with friends and telling his great underwater exploits.
You can not take away Siracusa’s people of their almond granita, eaten together with the famous brioche with the tuppo.
The Siracusa’s man loves relaxation and elegance, he can spend several hours sitting motionless in a bar table to expose his designer clothes and enjoying the sweet summer doing nothing.
At night in Siracusa people have fun, but without exceeding, they laughs and jokes, but always trying to maintain a certain aplomb, which they betray systematically drinking the third glass of wine.
Siracusa’s man is spoiled. Spoiled by beauty.
The beauty of the landscapes that Siracusa offers, the light that emanates its monuments, its sea, its history. All the extreme beauty that this city offers makes every person in Siracusa almost snooty, but always open, hospitable and ready to boast and share all this wonder with anyone lucky enough to find it.