Travel Reference
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Regions at a Glance
Syracuse & the Southeast
Baroque Beauty
Devastated by a 1693 earthquake, southeastern Sicily's hill towns rose like a phoenix from
the ashes, adopting the appealing baroque aesthetic you see today in the Unesco-listed
towns of Noto, Modica, Ragusa and their smaller sisters throughout the southeast.
Ancient Greek Echoes
Modern-day Syracuse still glows with the glory of its Greek past, in the repurposed temple
columns of Ortygia's cathedral, the papyrus-fringed pool at the heart of town and the cycle
of Greek dramas that still draws crowds to the city's ancient amphitheatre each summer.
Sweet Temptations
From Modica's chocolates to Noto's
granite
to the wine-flavoured ice creams of Ragusa,
this is a region that any sweet tooth will love.
