Costa Piazza Cappuccini - The Monument to the Fallen Italians in Africa is a Fascist era monument, dedicated to the Italians who died during the Ethiopian War (1935-1936), and assembled only in the 1960s on the seashore in Siracusa, region of Sicily, Italy. The monument, sculpted and designed by Romano Romanelli, was initially meant to be shipped in 1940 and assembled in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia; however, the Second World War prevented the transport, and led to its installation more than two decades later at this site, chosen because Syracuse had been a center for embarcation of troops for the African wars.
In June of 1940, at the outbreak of Italian intervention in World War II, the bronze statues and sculpted marble reliefs were loaded on to ships for transport to Ethiopia. The outbreak of war prevented their shipment through the Suez canal, and the items were mothballed in storage. In 1952, the sculptor Romano Romanelli proposed its placement in Siracusa, at the present scenographic locale in the piazza dei Cappuccini overlooking the Ionian sea. The assembly of a Fascist monument was not without controversy.
The monument recalls Ancient Roman monuments. Set atop a plinth, from the front it is approached by broad staircases. Towards the land is a larger-than-life bronze statue of a robust modern soldier on foot leading a horse, recalling the statues of the Dioscuri in the Quirinale fountain. Flanking the portal are the years and Ethiopian battle sites. The front of the monument has a boat prow, and faces the Ionian Sea towards Africa. Surrounding the monument are bronze sculptures of elements of the army, including infantry, navy, air force (with bomb), and local African muslim mercenaries, known as Askari. Bas-reliefs depict battles and a tank used in the war. The interior, mainly kept shuttered has a votive chapel. The monument is prone to vandalization and graffiti.
In 1999, veterans of the paratroop regiments place a plaque in memory of the second world war Lieutenant Coronel Giovanni Alberto Bechi Luserna. In 2012, the Siracusan cultural association, Lamba Doria, placed a plaque recalling the victims of the sinking of the Conte Rosso transport ship in 1941, while in the Siracusa port.

Chiesa di San Giovanni alle catacombe - For a long time in this church was recognized an ancient cathedral of Syracuse, built in Acradina (extra moenia) in the area above the Catacombs and in the place where, according to tradition, the protovescovo of Syracuse san Marciano was buried, martyred under Gallieno and Valeriano (half of the third century);
The south facade of the church as seen, destroyed by the earthquake of 1693 (the Grand Basilica rode), is the one rebuilt in the '700 with considerable changes to the same facade and to the portico for whose reconstruction fifteenth-century elements were used. On the left you can see the ancient Norman facade marked by the rose window and the decorated portal.
In this same place there was a chovorche in the classical Greek age, in which in the late Hellenistic age was installed a posassei workshop pertaining to a pagan cult area. While in the late imperial age it became a Christian cemetery area in use until at least 423. Around the middle of the sixth century (perhaps in relation to the stay of Pope Vigilius in Syracuse) the burial ground was tampered with to make way for the crypt of San Marciano which was to accommodate the sarcophagus with the relics of the saint. So above the crypt was built the apse church, with three naves, divided by 12 Doric columns (with reference to the apostles), so that the burial of the Saint was in the axis with the altar, placed in the center of the nave, limited by a balustrade.
In 878, during the Arab siege of Syracuse, Commander Giafar ibn Muhammad placed his encampment in the church.
After the probable devastation of the Arab age, the church underwent innovations with the reconstruction of the perimeter walls.

The Basilica of the Madonna delle Lacrime , also called Madonnina delle Lacrime is a 20th-century Roman Catholic Marian shrine church in Syracuse in Sicily, Italy. The modern building, derided by some as an inverted ice-cream cone, dominates the skyline of the approach to Ortigia.
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An international competition was held to design the church, and the design by Michel Andrault and Pierre Parat was selected. The main engineer for construction was Riccardo Morandi. Construction of the shrine began in 1966, but was only complete by 1994. During construction, the foundations were found to contain a crypt, likely a paleo-christian mausoleum, now in the inferior rooms of the church. The building initially was planned to be larger, but at 103 metres high, it was truncated some 30 metres. The church is adjacent to the Catacombs of San Giovanni and the Basilica of San Marziano.