The canal linking the Porto Grande with the Porticciolo, Ortigia, Syracuse, Sicily. The photographer is looking north from on the Umbertino Bridge showing the Riva della Posta on the Ortigia side. small sailing craft are moored to the Ortigia bank and a single masted, lateen sailed vessel is entering the canal with the crew using sweeps. A wooden hulled steam tug, seen from fine off her port quarter, is in the foreground and she has R6 stencilled on her stern.