Latomia St. Venera, Necropolis Grotticelle and Archimedes’ Grave

Culture, Monuments
Viale Teracati - 96100 Siracusa

    Monday to Saturday from 9.00 am until one hour before sunset
    Sundays and holidays from 9.00 to 13.45

    The ticket office closes one hour before the closing time

    Closing at 16.30 during the Classical Plays

    Entrance € 10.00
    Reduced price (for young people aged 18 to 25 years) € 5.00
    Free admission the first Sunday of the month
    Free for members of the European Union under the age of 18

    Archeological Park of Neapolis and Museum “Paolo Orsi” € 13.50 – reduced € 7.00
    Archeological Park of Neapolis and Villa Tellaro € 12.00 – reduced € 6.00
    Archeological Park of Neapolis and Galleria Bellomo € 13.50 – reduced € 7.00
    Archeological Park of Neapolis, Museum “Paolo Orsi”, Galleria Bellomo and Villa Tellaro € 24.00 – reduced € 12.00

    Large Greek and Roman burial ground located in the Park of Neapolis. It can be reached through a suggestive stairway leading to the bottom of latomia St. Venera, rich in green and vegetation.

    There are still some traces of the noble imprint nineteenth century garden that was built within the latomia when it was still privately owned. On the walls there are numerous small square niches with votive pictures, in terracotta (tile) or painted wood, portraying the deceased as a knight or a warrior in the act of offering sacrifices.

    On the rocky hillside overlooking the north latomia, it extends the necropolis “of Grotticelli”. Here stands a building labeled by tradition, without any foundation, as the Archimedes’ grave. The so-called “Archimedes’ Grave”, although in the imagination of citizens represents the grave of the scientist from Syracuse, is actually a Roman Catacomb born a few centuries after the death of Archimedes.

    In the building there are arched niches that housed the cinerary urns with, most likely, the ashes of prominent personalities of the Roman time.

    The Necropolis can also be admired even from outside the Archaeological Park, at the intersection of Avenue Teracati and Via Saverio Cavallari and along Viale Rizzo, which borders the northern part of the archaeological park.

     

    Area subject to the entrance fee of the Archaeological Park.