The Temple of Apollo stands in a sunken archaeological area at the entrance to Ortigia, across from the mainland bridge. Two columns and fragments of the temple wall are what survives of what was once a fully peristylar temple, completed around 565 BC. The ruin is not dramatic — it is small and hemmed in by later buildings — but its age is extraordinary: this is the earliest known Doric temple in Sicily.
The site is enclosed and visible from the street. The surrounding Piazza Pancali gives a sense of the gradual reclamation of Ortigia's ancient layers: the Arab, Norman, and Baroque buildings that crowd the modern street are themselves built on Greek foundations. The morning fish market operates in the streets immediately north of the temple and is well worth arriving for by 8am.