Road station
Agris
near Palazzolo Acreide
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Agris is Acrae, the hill fortress near Palazzolo Acreide that Syracuse founded around 664 BC. Inscriptions name its sanctuaries of Artemis, Aphrodite and Kore, and a gate called the Selinuntine gate; south of the town lies a strange cemetery with figures carved into the living rock, and in late antiquity a Christian community buried its dead in catacombs here. On the map the distance to Syracuse is split, part on the road line and part above it.