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' "In this island is very great source Aretusa à that time, and full of fish, and fortified with large stones, why is not covered by the sea, the waves here are pigliano freshwater fish, apart from salsa"
C. M. Arezzo '
"At the extreme of this island there is a source of freshwater whose name is Aretusa, incredible breadth pienissima fish, whose flow would be submerged if everything was not separated from the sea by a massive stone wall.
Cicero '
La Fonte Aretusa is a mirror of water on the island of Ortigia, in the oldest part of the city Sicilian meeting place between reality and legend, one of the most beautiful monuments of Syracuse.
Its origin is the development of one of the many sfoghi ground water which is located in Syracuse, the aquifer that also supplies the river Ciane on the opposite side of the port. It has a circular double, with inside a circular structure, or a double concentric circle.
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Monuments