Surroundigs

Landscape, tradition, art, history makes of the “Ragusano” a mirrow reflecting the concept of Sicilianity, without obscure the originality of its own beauty.
Ragusa, Modica and Scicli, for example, are casket of monuments lately recognized “Umanity Patrimony” from the UNESCO organization.

Few kilometers away you can visit:

THE DONNAFUGATA CASTLE with a gothic-venezian facade. The internal leans out on a big garden rich of various species of trees and plants, a small temple, artificial caves and a stone labirint.

RAGUSA capital of provence, located on the south part of the Iblei Monts, is divided in two: modern Ragusa, with a net-shape plant and Ragusa Ibla, rich of medieval remembers and elegant barocco style palaces. More ancient, fashionable and picturesque centre, Ibla springs in a hill, on which follows the profile in an harmonic way.
Elected land for the architects of the eighteenth century, whose love to valorize the natural irregularity, creating monumental scenical effects that give the Barocco an unic pecularity.

MARINA DI RAGUSA part of the administrative territory of Ragusa, Marina is the more equipped from all the bathing centres of the provence.
In the last 15 years, in particular, it has developped as urban small town.

MODICA one of the most picturesque town of the province, situated on the hills of the Southern Iblei, it is tracked by two small rivers. This town is divided in three nucleus: Modica Alta, climbed on the Monts with its houses made of rocks, Modica Bassa, that sits on the valley crossed by the two small rivers and Modica Sorda, area under expansion. Town to disover by walking around narrow streets and up and down staircases with its houses climbed on the rocks that gives the idea of a “crib town”.

SCICLI 8 km. Away from Modica, this town is located under limestone caves that seems to protect it. In the horizon you can see the Mediterranean Sea.

ISPICA pretty small town of about 14.000 inhabitants, at the border with the Siracuse provence. This town is 6 km. Away from the Sea. The urban centre, rebuilded after the hearthquake of the 1693, is one of the most functional and modern centre of the provence, with very characteristic large and straight streets.

POZZALLO The only Sea Common of the provence, with very busy beaches. This town has started to being important on the forteenth century as end to the sea for the Contea of Modica, when the Chiaramonte family builded a “Caricatore”, around which the first quarters of the town had rise. For this reason, only in this part of the town has very narrow streets proper of the mediterranean centres. Talking about the rest, this small town has a modern apparence. Some houses have their entrance from the balcony above the road which makes them highly characteristics.