Siracusa - Fonte Arethusa

From the Cathedral Square in Syracuse the tour continues through Via Picherali down to the Spring of Arethusa, a pond surrounded by papryus reeds and formed by a freshwater spring near the sea. An ancient myth, handed down to us by Ovid in his "Metamorphoses", states that the nymph Arethusa fled from the Greek river-god Alpheios, fell into the sea on the east coast of the Peloponnese and surfaced again on Ortygia in the old town of Syracuse.