Siracusa - Piazza Santa Lucia

The center of the thickly populated Tyche quarter of Syracuse, now known as Santa Lucia, is the large Piazza Santa Lucia, a square studded with rows of trees and lawns. Its northern end is filled by the church of the same name and - to its right - the octagonal 17th century Chiesa del Sepolchro, with the Tomb of St Lucia, the patron saint of Syracuse who, accompanied by her sick mother, went on a pilgrimage to St Agatha in Catania.