Latomia dei Cappuccini

The Latomia of the Capuchins is the biggest of the latomie of Syracuse, in the Sicilian dialect it is likewise called sibbia .

It was utilized since the VI century BC as a quarry to improve the city with landmarks and houses.

Among the soonest declarations of the place Hippolytus of Rome in the Refutatio contra omnes haereses composes that for Senophanes, in Syracuse, in the latomie, have discovered engravings of fish and seals.

After the triumph of Syracuse on the Athenian troops, the caught fighters were bolted up and left amazing the latomie.

There are likewise hints of utilization after the Greek age hypogeum as a position of love and agnostic and Christian necropolis.