An enviable position, between the sea of the great harbour, the only natural shelter of Sicilian coast and the mountains Iblei, Siracusa was founded by a group of Greek settlers from Corinth and led by Archia in the eighth century BC But the area was already inhabited, as evidenced by the findings came to light in the area of Piazza Duomo, already in the XIV century BC Today Syracuse (the name derives from the greek Sirako, which means swamp) counts 127 thousand inhabitants living in five districts of Pentapolis Dionisio of the Greek names (as Akradina, Tike, Neapolis, Ortigia) and Saint Lucia, more fractions Cassibile, to the south, near dell'omonimo river that the Greeks called Kakiparys, and Belvedere, a short distance from the Castle Euryalus.