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\nA group of Corinthians<\/strong>, lead by Archia, arrives at Ortigia island and, after having shooed, establishes the polis of Syrakousai.<\/strong><\/p>\n The city is besieged by the Romans guided by the consul Marco Claudio Marcellus<\/strong> and, after a very long time, succumbs. It became the capital of Roman Sicily.<\/p>\n Lucia is born in Siracusa. The young girl\u00a0will be made martyr after the persecutions of the Christians with the edict of the Roman emperor Diocleziano; Saint Lucia, will become one of the more loved saint in the world.<\/p>\n During the empire of Dioclezianus, on 13h December<\/strong>, there is the martyrdom of Saint Lucia<\/strong>, who immediately becomes the protector of the city.<\/p>\n Siracusa becomes\u00a0capital of Eastern Roman Empire<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The city is taken by the Arabs,\u00a0<\/strong>after a long siege called The Siege of Siracusa<\/strong>\u00a0led by Governor Giafar Ibn Muhammed and narrated by the Syracusan monk Teodosio.<\/p>\n Byzantin general Giorgio Maniace takes the city<\/strong> with some Italian and Norman comrades. Among them, William Iron Arm.<\/p>\n Siracusa becomes headquarters of the Queens of Sicily<\/strong>, and is ruled by them for a long period.<\/p>\n The painter Caravaggio<\/strong>, who painted The Burial of Saint Lucia<\/em>, arrived in the city, fleeing from Malta.<\/p>\n After the terrible heartquake of Val di Noto<\/strong>, the city is rebuild in a Baroque style<\/strong>, that has a great flowering in all the south-eastern Sicily.<\/p>\n212 a.C.<\/h3>\n
283 a.C.<\/h3>\n
304 a.C.<\/h3>\n
663-669 d.c.<\/h3>\n
878<\/h3>\n
1040<\/h3>\n
1302<\/h3>\n
1609<\/h3>\n
1693<\/h3>\n
1798<\/h3>\n