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Among the so many beauties in Siracusa the characteristic latomìes can be enumerated, from the Greek latomìa or rather cut of stone, great cave of stone that furnished the material for the construction of the greatest buildings in the greek city and that as jails were also used.  

Between them the vast is that said of the Heaven, in which the famous called cave is found, for its form, the ear of Dionisio. 

The ear of Dionisio is an artificial cave, imbutiforme, dug in the limestone, tall around 23 ms. and wide from the 5 to the 11 ms., with an unusual form, vaguely similar to an ear tent, that develops him in depth for 65 ms., with an unusual course to S and with sinuous walls that converge aloft, in an unusual acute order. The cave is, besides, endowed with exceptional acoustic (the sounds are amplified up to 16 times).  

These acoustic characteristics and the form induced Michelangelo of Caravaggio, that visited Syracuse in 1608 together with the historical siracusano Vincent Mirabella, to denominate her/it Ear of Dionisio, giving so strength to the sixteenth-century legend according to which the famous tyrant Dionisio had made to build this cave as jail and it confined you its prisoners to listen, from an opening from the tall one, the words magnified by the echo.  

Fascinated by the acoustics and by the suggestion of the place, the Caravaggio ambientò the famous picture "The burial of Saint Lucy. 

In effects, even if against the suggestions and of the legend, it is opportune to know that the form of the cave is simply due to the fact that I dig him/it it began from the tall one, following the plan leading of a serpentine aqueduct, and went widening more and more himself/herself/itself in depth, a good quality of rock being recovered. To test of this on the walls they are clearly observable the traces of the tools of the quarrymen of stone and, in horizontal sense, the plans of I detach some drawn out blocks.

 

Toward east, adjoining to the ear of Dionisio, we find the Cave of the Cordaris, so said because here, beginning from the XVII° century, some artisans worked the hemp and they produced ropes of every type, favored by the natural damp (the tradition is extinguished ago only few decades). Of amplissime proportions, with a succession of walls and spaces, from the time supported by tall rocky pillars, this cave is surely the most suggestive of the latomia of the Heaven.These effects mostly come excited when the fund is covered of meteoric waters or of stratum that you/they originate from infiltrations of the time. Notable and particular they are the signs of the extraction of the stone, on the walls and on the ceilings the succession of the plans is observed of I detach some blocks removed by the rocky bench.  

And' a lot of scenografica for the effects of light, for the policromia of the rock and for the varied kind of plants that you/they grow you.

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