La Via della Giudecca

Syracuse


A charming, family-run B&B whose amenities include crisp white interiors, wood and stone floors, timber-beamed ceilings and spacious rooms, three of which come with sea-view balconies. Bathrooms tend to be on the small side, though the rooms are clean and the beds comfy. Another bonus: the property enjoys a prime location on a picturesque Giudecca piazza.


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Nearby Syracuse attractions

1. Miqweh

0.06 MILES

Buried 20m beneath the Alla Giudecca hotel in Ortygia's old Jewish ghetto (known as the Giudecca) is an extraordinary ancient Jewish miqwe (ritual bath),…

2. Museo dei Pupi

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The small Museo dei Pupi chronicles the history of Sicilian puppetry, with a particular focus on the role local puppeteers Alfredo and Saro Vaccaro played…

3. Museo del Papiro

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Ortygia's Museo del Papiro offers a fine collection of papyrus documents and products, including artefacts from antiquity. There's also an English…

4. Palazzo Lanza-Bucceri

0.16 MILES

Syracuse's 'drawing room', Piazza Archimede is flanked by Catalan-Gothic palazzi, including Palazzo Lanza-Bucceri.

5. Duomo

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Built on the skeleton of a 5th-century BC Greek temple to Athena (note the Doric columns still visible inside and out), Syracuse's 7th-century cathedral…

6. Fontana di Artemide

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At the heart of Ortygia is handsome Piazza Archimede, home to Giulio Moschetti's Fontana di Artemide. Constructed between 1906 and 1907, the fountain's…

7. Artemision

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Loitering beneath Palazzo Municipale are the scant remains of a 6th-century-BC Greek temple dedicated to the goddess Artemis, as well as the modest traces…

8. Palazzo Municipale

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The Palazzo Municipale or Palazzo Senatoriale was built in 1629 by the Spanish architect Juan Vermexio, who was nicknamed 'Il Lucertolone' or 'the lizard'…