Get rock and pop concerts out of the Greek Theater in Syracuse, Sicily, near the Ionian coast in 2023. A petition signed by Italy Nostra, the Italian group for the preservation of cultural, artistic, and natural heritage, addressed to the government of Sicily's Syracuse region, requesting that it take measures to protect the city's ancient ruins. "A venue that is evidence to the highest cultural peaks that Antiquity has represented in the West is obviously not the most congruent to host pop-rock concerts," Italy Nostra argued in the appeal. The local administration's announcement of the 2023 performance schedule sparked the debate. The theater, a symbol of the city's Greek heritage, came under the scrutiny of historians, archaeologists, and petrographers, who all agreed that it needed a conservative restoration and better upkeep. Worrying the scientists even more is the stone's honeycomb: precipitation stagnates in it, slowly but steadily affecting the limestone of which the rock is comprised; also, a lush spontaneous plant develops between alveoli and fractures. For this reason, the Association for the Protection of Heritage, has asked for a different allocation for the scheduled events, both for the historical-cultural incongruity, and for the impact that a crowd of people pouring on the steps of the theater could have on the structure of the historical monument itself, preventing the stone from "breathing".