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See Jewish Quarter- GALLERIA REGIONALE DI PALAZZO BELLOMO

ARA DI IERONE
The largest altar of greek world and one of the most important monuments desired by Hieron Il in the III century BC

Syracuse is a city on the Ionian coast of Sicily, Italy. It's known for its ancient ruins. The central Archaeological Park Neapolis comprises the Roman Amphitheater, the Teatro Greco and the Orecchio di Dionisio, a limestone cave shaped like a human ear. The Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi exhibits terracotta artifacts, Roman portraits and Old Testament scenes carved into white marble

The Ear of Dionysus, before the collapse of the gigantic stone quarry vault, guarded a darkness so deep that we cannot imagine it. In that darkness, for centuries, were confined the prisoners.and slaves condemned to work in the quarry and die there. The great face of "Tindaro", legendary King
of Sparta, becomes the tympanum of this gigantic ear, stretched out to listen to the world, and to try to understand its pain and hope. The statue emerges from the darkness to be the symbol of all the multitudes who have dreamed of flying away from that prison, like Icarus, and who have left their voices, their dreams of freedom, their labours, but also the imprint of their courage and dignity in there. Daedalus is the unwitting builder of a prison that ultimately imprisoned him, and Tindarus represents his humiliated and wounded but not
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