With its green-blue colors, the Ciane river crosses the salt mine reserve and emerges into the Porto Grande harbor of Syracuse.
The river is named after the color – cyan – of its blue waters combined with the papyrus plants that spontaneously grow along its bank.
Paper reed was brought to Sicily around the 3rd century B.C. by an explorer returning from Egypt. Since then, the Syracuse landscape is tinted in a tropical blue-green.
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