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Caravaggio in Siracusa Wheelchair Accessible Tours

In this case, our Caravaggio Sicily accessible tours Syracuse disabled transport proposes a first visit to Syracuse at the St Lucia Church to see the Burial of St Lucy (1608-1609).

After the precipitous escape from Malta, Caravaggio took refuge in Syracuse, and was probably thanks to his friend, Mario Minniti, a talented painter, who managed to get the commission of this work.

The scene appears set at the entrance of the latomies or, more likely, in the underground and dark environments of the catacombs underlying the Church of St Lucia at the Sepulcher for which the painting was performed and in which the martyr's sepulcher is located.

Two huge gravediggers in the foreground are beginning to dig the pit, while shriveled and almost printed on the broken background only by a blind arch ( easily interpretable as a reminder to the "arcosolio" in which the tomb of the saint is located ) are attending the funeral, with the bishop giving the last rites to the decapitated Saint.