The southernmost part of eastern Sicily not only offers breathtaking natural landscapes, thanks to the light colors of the limestone typically used for construction and the fine white sand that characterizes this stretch of coast, but it also preserves the most beautiful and evocative traces of Sicilian Baroque and right here in the Ragusa area the film “Inspector Montalbano” was set.
Skipping along the “Piana di Catania”, the coastline of the Ionian Sea and the Iblei mountains, we will arrive in Ragusa which preserves its historic center intact, separated from the new city. In Ragusa Ibla you can admire the beautiful Piazza Duomo dominated by the Cathedral of San Giorgio, the patron saint of the city.
From here we will move to reach Modica, a baroque city famous for its architecture, but also for being the city where the Nobel Prize winner for literature Salvatore Quasimodo was born – whose house you can visit – and for its famous and delicious cold-worked chocolate!
We will continue to Punta Secca, where we will discover the “Montalbano house in Marinella” with its terrace overlooking the sea. We will then continue to the Donnafugata Castle, in the middle of the wonderful Ragusa countryside, made famous by the novel “The Leopard” by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
