Perhaps due to its double circular shape, a closed ring inside a larger circle which is found at the Fonte Aretusa and is one of the most suggestive monuments in the city today.
The water which fills it comes from a subterranean fountain of sweet water that runs into the salty sea. Due to this feature, the fountain contains aquatic plants, fish and ducks above all it hosts the only spontaneous papireto in Europe. It is hard to imagine that in the past the water basin was used
Nowadays Fonte Aretusa is the mirror of Siracusa.
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