Syracuse during the wars of the modern era
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English: To explore the history of Syracuse, its role as a fortress during the modern age, read the pages on Wikipedia (for now available only in Italian language): Siracusa in età spagnola: da Carlo V al Grande assedio di Malta (Syracuse in the Spanish age: from Charles V to the Great Siege of Malta); Dalla guerra contro l'Impero ottomano al terremoto del 1693 (The war with the Ottoman Empire and the great earthquake); La guerra di successione e l'ultimo Asburgo (The Spanish War of Succession and the Last Habsburg); Siracusa in età borbonica (1735-1815) (Syracuse during the Napoleonic Wars)
Military Order of Malta and Syracuse (1529-1798)
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The island of Malta and Syracuse as seen by satellite
The places where landed the soldiers of the Sublime Door (Ottoman Empire) in the year 1573
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Melilli, Fontane Bianche, Avola
Map with imprinted the sea battle occurred between Spanish and British soldiers in the waters of Syracuse (1718)
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On the right was depicted the city of Syracuse
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The map with the image of the battle (Gerard van Keulen 1720)
Horatio Nelson in Syracuse
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Admiral Horatio Nelson and Lady Hamilton at river Anapo, 1800
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Detail of the watercolor by Ellis Cornelia Knight, Nelson and Emma Hamilton at Stracusa, april 1800