Ragusa, the baroque Sicily for your holidays.
In the Sicilian country, among dry-stone walls, olive and carob trees and
locusts pursue themselves. In the midst, farms and patrician villas. On the one hand the
sea, on the other splendid Baroque cities reconstructed after the 1693 earthquake, three
centuries ago. To the center it detaches Ibla with his Baroque, inserted by the Unesco,
together with Modica, Noto and Scicli, among the sites patrimony of the humanity. Many
among these splendid houses they are let to rent to the tourists that come to discover
this unknown country of the Sicily. Numerous they are the hotels, the "bed &
breakfast" in the residences of the historical center of Ragusa, the holiday houses,
the agritourism.
The hinterland offers, then, itineraries of great cultural interest: Kamarina
with its interesting museum, the castle of Donnafugata; the Baroque cities of Modica and
Noto; Piazza Armerina with Roman "Villa del casale" and so many other, all
testimonies of endless dominations and cultures.
And, near, Syracuse (80 kms) with its Greek theater where every
year, in the summer, the classical representations are developed; Agrigento (110 kms) with
itsr splendid Greek temples; Taormina (150 kms) famous all over the world in its beauty
and so many other cities full of history and of culture.
The tourism, the agriturism are exploded and many people now, for their trips and their
vacations, choose more and more this extended earth between the sea and the country,
illuminated by a sun that it revives the extraordinary of its colors. (in the photo the
castle of Donnafugata)
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The sea of Ragusa. Marina
di Ragusa and over.
Wonderful coasts in Marina di Ragusa, with wide sunny beaches of thin gilded
sand, endowed with first rate tourist services, tourist villages of Kamarina and Kastalia,
Marispica and Baia Samuele included, completes the image of the Ragusa's province, an
Italian land that certainly deserves to be visited. continue
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In the country among Ragusa, Ragusa Ibla (the ancient
part of the city, with churches and noble buildings, with narrow alleys and suggestive
stairways) and Marina of Ragusa (seaside center of oriental south Sicily), few kilometers
from the sea, there are many villas with the characteristic structure with a great
farmyard inside, the baglio, where they give on the house of the "massari" and
both the whole villa (in the photo, the baglio of Villacarcara,
one of the most prestigious vacations villas in the Sicily). continue >>>
The agriculture
Iblean Mountains Extra virgin olive oil, Cerasuolo
wine and Caciocavallo cheese are the world widely famous produce of the Ragusa
agricultural area, the most southern Sicilian province (it sets below the 37th parallel
and, therefore, below Tunis). Here, the nature has been respected more than elsewhere and
the farmers have been able to draw the best out of this land, which is warmed by the hot
Mediterranean sun. continue >>>
- Ragusa and Ragusa Ibla. Ragusa, that develops on the
highland, was entirely planned according to a chessboard scheme after the 1693 earthquake
and is characterized by long parallel streets and scenographies of late baroque buildings.
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- TOURISM. Twenty-five percent
tourists more in Sicily in the first four months of 2005 than the same period of the last
year, with 40% points in the Val di Noto. After Taormina it is the province of Ragusa the
more one visited of Sicily. continue >>>
THE MODICA SHIRE CHOCOLATE
If the Piemonte,
with its 24 traditional specialties, it is the country of the Italian chocolate, the true
crib is instead, surprise, Sicily. continue >>>
In the country among Ragusa, Ragusa Ibla (the ancient
part of the city, with churches and noble buildings, with narrow alleys and suggestive
stairways) and Marina of Ragusa (seaside center of oriental south Sicily), few kilometers
from the sea, there are many villas with the characteristic structure with a great
farmyard inside, the baglio, where they give on the house of the "massari" and
both the whole villa (in the photo, the baglio of
Iblean Mountains Extra virgin olive oil, Cerasuolo
wine and Caciocavallo cheese are the world widely famous produce of the Ragusa
agricultural area, the most southern Sicilian province (it sets below the 37th parallel
and, therefore, below Tunis). Here, the nature has been respected more than elsewhere and
the farmers have been able to draw the best out of this land, which is warmed by the hot
Mediterranean sun. 
If the Piemonte,
with its 24 traditional specialties, it is the country of the Italian chocolate, the true
crib is instead, surprise, Sicily. continue