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Statue of Archimede

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Right at the entrance of Ortigia, located between the two bridges, stands a beautiful bronze statue of the Syracusan genius Archimede

Siracusa is the city of birth of the great Archimede. Between the costructions dedicated to Archimede, the beautiful Bronze statue stands out, located right at the entrance of Ortigia. 
You find it between the two bridges and you will notice it for his magnificence - High 2 meters and 60 cm, it is only the most conspicuous part of a monument much more complex and of a total height of 3 meters and 20 cm.
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​The artists who created the work are the Syracusan sculptor Pietro Marchese and the Genoese architect Virginia Rossello, It does not want to represent only the figure of Archimedes but also his thought: The statue represents Archimedes standing looking at the sea holding a mirror to represent the famous enterprise of the burning mirrors, with which Archimedes burned the ships that were invading Siracusa.

Stay focused: the stone base of Comiso (eight meters by eight), reproduces the famous "game" Stomachion, giving you an interesting perspective effect.
The fourteen dowels of which the Stomachion is composed have been designed on different heights and in each of them is engraved in inseway a study of Archimedes in the form of a symbol: the machines, the physics of solid and liquid bodies, the mathematics of large numbers, astronomy. 

In the evening the base lights up and, in concert with the lights of the port, gives the statue a truly suggestive effect!

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96100 - Siracusa (SR)