The Latomie were originally quarries from which you extracted the material necessary to meet the huge demand for building material for temples and masonry. But Latomie, also served as prisons and in one of these seven thousand prisoners were locked up by the Syracusans defeated the Athenians in 413 BC. In Syracuse, there are approximately 12 Latomie, one of the most interesting of Paradise with the artificial cave known as the Ear of Dionysius with an acoustic guitar that amplifies sounds up to 16 times. Just after the Rope Makers Cave, so called because in the favor of moisture, it worked for the production of hemp ropes.