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138  SICIL Y AREA B Y AREA

Exploring Southern Sicily

An excellent starting point for any visit to Sicily’s southern tip is Syracuse, with
its exceptional artistic and cultural heritage. It lies about 60 km (37 miles) from
Catania airport and is a two-hour drive from Messina, along a scenic route with
the Ionian Sea to your left and Mount Etna to your right. Other popular sights in
this area are the old cities in the interior – those in Val di Noto (Caltagirone,
Modica, Noto, Palazzolo Acreide, Ragusa and Scicli, along with Militello Val di
Catania and Catania itself) have all been named UNESCO World Heritage sites.
The mountains conceal an impressive testimony to the ancient history of Catania
southern Sicily in the crevices of Pantalica, Ispica and Lentini. Gornalunga P i a n a
Ramacca d i C a t a n i a
Ferro Golfo di
Catania
Calttanissetta
Mirabella Palagonia Agnone Bagni
Imbaccari
Scordia Capo Campolato
San Cono
San Michele LENTINI
di Ganzaria Militello
Mineo Carlentini Capo Santa
Croce
CALTAGIRONE Francofonte
AUGUSTA
Lago di Grammichele MEGARA HYBLAEA Golfo di
Disueri Augusta
Butera Sortino Melilli
Licodia
Niscemi Eubea VIZZINI Penisola
Gela
Ceramic plate produced Lago di PANTALICA Magnisi
in Caltagirone Diriillo Buccheri Ferla
Agrigento Maróglio Santo Pietro Anapo Solarino Castello
Eurialo
Disshiara Monterosso M o n t i I b l e i
Almo Buscemi Florídia SYRACUSE
GELA Ortygia
Ficuzza Acate o CHIARAMONTE PALAZZOLO Canicattini
Giarratana
Dirillo
Bagni
ACREIDE
GULFI
Acate
Ognina
Diligenza Cassibile
Golfo Lago di
di Gela Rosalia V a l d i N o t o Cassibile
Noto Antica
Cómiso Casa Nobile
VITTORIA RAGUSA Avola
NOTO
Sights at a Glance Scoglitti Tellaro Calabernardo
1 Syracuse pp140–47 Donnafugata
2 Noto pp148–51 Irminio MODICA CAVA D'ISPICA
3 Pachino Modica Grande Golfo
4 Capo Passero Rosolini di Noto
5 Cava d’Ispica Punta Secca SCICLI
6 Scicli Marina Ispica
7 Ragusa pp154–5 di Ragusa Marzamemi
8 Modica Donnalucata Pozzallo
9 Vittoria Sampieri PACHINO
0 Gela
q Chiaramonte Gulfi Religione Portopalo di Capo Passero Isola Capo
Punta
Passero
w Vizzini CAPO PASSERO
e Palazzolo Acreide Capo delle
r Caltagirone pp158–9 Isola delle Correnti
t Lentini Correnti
y Megara Hyblaea
u Augusta The Baroque façade of the Basilica di
i Pantalica San Giorgio in Ragusa
For hotels and restaurants in this region see p204 and pp214–16
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