At the top of a magnificent, imposing flight of 250 steps rises the majestic church of S. Giorgio, a masterpiece of the Hyblaean Baroque, eighteenth-century gem of upper Modica. The airy, narrow front of the building, its central part soaring into a ...

Near the ex-monastery of the Mercedarian monks stands the huge church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, built at the beginning of the seventeenth century, to a plan by the architect Vincenzo Mirabella, following the mysterious discovery in 1615 of an imag...

The lovely town of Modica in the Province of Ragusa is known as the town of a hundred churches. The church of Santa Maria di Betlem, built on the ruins of 4 previous churches in the fifteenth century, was damaged by the 1600 earthquake, but rebuilt i...

The noble town of Modica is known throughout Sicily for its production of home-made chocolate, the most delicious on the island. The Modica area is fertile and rich, its main produce being olives, carobs, wheat, cereals and legumes, outstanding among...

A Baroque gem set among the hills near Modica, Scicli is a town with very ancient origins, which some believe was indeed founded by the Siculans between 1500 and 800 BC. In fact, the oldest archaeological evidence found on the S. Matteo hills, comes ...

The Civic Museum of Modica is housed in the rooms of the magnificent Palazzo dei Mercedari, an eighteenth-century building, once the monastery of the Mercedarian monks, and nowadays also the seat of the Municipal Library, containing many incunabula a...

Illustrious son of Modica, where he was born on 20 August, 1901, Salvatore Quasimodo spent his infancy and adolescence between the noble town of the Province of Ragusa and some of the main centres in eastern Sicily, including Gela, Licata and Messina...

Not far from Modica lies the Cava d'Ispica, a surprising valley with about 13 km of spectacular canyon dug out of the rocky limestone of the Hyblaean plateau. A place of great historical-archaeological interest and of incredible naturalistic fascinat...