Inside the cathedral has been built using the Doric Columns of an antic Greek temple dedicated to Athena!!!! Wikipedia translated: Temple of Athena (Syracuse Cathedral) The temple of Athena, South of the island of Ortigia, is Doric peripteral, 6 x 14 columns, 22 x 55 m, more recent than the previous and dated to the early 5BC; The columns have 20 splines, are 8.70 m high, have a diameter less than 1, 90 m; They still have a slight bulge; The conflict is solved classically at angles by the contraction of intercolumniations end; This building combines local limestone and Cycladic marble and succeeds another temple of 6BC, found during excavations in 1912; The plan this time is canonical, with pronaos and opisthodomos in antis arranged symmetrically; The entrance was to the East; The temple was converted into a mosque in the seventh century, and Christianized in the eleventh century, with the entrance from the West; It is now incorporated in the building of the cathedral (Duomo di Siracusa), which forms the nave (the ancient walls of the cella pierced berries) and the aisles (former peristyle); The Doric columns can be observed both within and outside the cathedral, especially since the dismantling of Baroque interior ornaments, made ​​in 1925; This transformation is very similar to that experienced by the Temple of Concord in Agrigento; Italy Sicily Mediterranean Island Syracuse Province Syracuse town UNESCO World Heritage.