Syracuse City Ballet

File:SIRACUSA_VISTA_DALLAEREO_CON_LETNA_SULLO_SFONDO.FOTO_Di_Angelo.jpgFile:Neapolis_Archaelogical_Park,_with_the_The_Basilica_of_the_Madonna_delle_Lacrime_in_the_Background,_Syracuse,_Sicily.jpgFile:Theatre_at_Syracuse,_Sicily.jpgFile:Palazzo_dell'orologio,_Ortygia,_Syracuse,_Province_of_Syracuse,_Sicily,_Italy_-_panoramio.jpgFile:Monument_to_Archimedes_in_the_Syracuse._Sicily,_Italy.jpgFile:Cattedrale,_Syracuse,_Province_of_Syracuse,_Ortygia,_Sicily,_Italy_-_panoramio.jpgFile:Ortygia_bridges,_Syracuse,_Province_of_Syracuse,_Sicily,_Italy_-_panoramio.jpgFile:Fountain_of_Diana_(39548913321).jpgFile:Flag_of_Syracuse.svgFile:Siracusa-Stemma.svgCoin with the inscription ΣΥRAKOΣION ("of the Syracusans"), 5th century BCArchimedes drawing his circles as a Roman soldier prepares to strike him (from the famous account of the scientist’s death, work by Thomas Degeorge, 19th century)In the foreground, the totem recalling the Hohenstaufen origin of the Maniace Castle (built by Frederick II in 1240 and named in memory of the Byzantine general George Maniakes)Bust of Charles V in the 1520s (National Sculpture Museum, Spain, Valladolid)Top: The Pillars of Hercules with the motto Plus Ultra and the terrestrial globe; the personal symbols of Charles V—adopted following the discovery of the Americas—still adorn the entrance to Syracuse’s Maniace Castle (the plaque was commissioned by him in 1542).Bottom: The same symbols at the Palace of Charles V

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