# Monte Lauro

- **Country:** Italy
- **Coordinates:** 37.116974, 14.819615
- **Range:** Hyblaean Mountains
- **Location:** Ragusa/Syracuse, Italy
- **Map Size:** 250
- **Elevation M:** 986
- **Easiest Route:** Mountain walk from the road at Buscemi.

Mount Lauro is a mountain reaching 986 metres located in south-eastern Sicily belonging to the chain of Hyblaean Mountains, stretching between the three provinces of Catania, Ragusa and Siracusa. Monte Lauro is part of a complex of extinct volcanoes having formed under the sea during the Miocene epoch.

![Photo of Monte Lauro](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Monti-Iblei-map-bjs.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Lauro (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)