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The Daily Excursions

The geographical position of Scicli allows to visit interesting places with daily and/or short trips.
The sites you can visit with a 30 minute ride by car:

  • Modica is a city built on the steep walls of a “cave” of extraordinary scenic and imposing grandeur with steep paths, long and fascinating spiral staircases interspersed with sudden insights. The dominant style of the monuments is the Late Baroque characterized by the towers of a hundred churches, but also masks, putti and grotesques that support the balconies of many noble palaces.

  • Ragusa Ibla, a city within the city, where the breath of history captures the visitor at every moment in the heart and in the eyes. The baroque colors, the steep descents and unexpected extensions of this city that rises through tight corners of a fish-shaped tray with an amazing visual effect.

To visit: the churches of San Giuseppe, Santa Maria delle Scale, Santa Maria Idria and the Cathedral of San Giorgio which is the masterpiece of the imposing artistic Baroque period.

  • The Castle of Donnafugata, famous through the novel “The Leopard” by Tomasi di Lampedusa, is 20 km away from Scicli. It is a residence that Baron Donnafugata Corrado Arezzo had built in the second half of the XIXth century. The style is not really defined, however it is a lovely place, completed with a beautiful park with old trees and an amazing maze.

  • Cava d’Ispica,city of caves that stretches itself over a length of 13 km in northwest/ southeast direction in the territory of Modica and Ispica. This is an archaeological site of great historical palaeontologic interest. In the Cava d’Ispica there are traces of the history of Sicily, Sicilians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, French, Spanish, Vice Kings and Counts. In this place are present prehistoric and early Christian sites as well as rupestrian churches.

  • The Oasi di Vendicari and Macchia Forest River Irminio are designed with appropriate trails for those who prefer walking in nature. The period from September to November is ideal for this kind of tourism. It is advised to take along a picnic and a bottle of water, and wear suitable shoes, a jacket and a hat.

  • In the footsteps of Sicilian writers

The journey is an opportunity to get to know some famous Sicilian writers of the early XXth century, of national and international fame. You can visit the places where they lived most of their lives, walking in the streets, squares and paths on which they used to love walking and strolling.

In Modica, birthplace of Nobel Prize Salvatore, where there are the “Quasimodoteca” and the House Museum. In front of them there is the house where Thomas Campailla was born. It has given its name to the museum showing the famous mercury stoves for the treatment of syphilis. We indeed recommend a visit.
Still in Modica was born the writer Raffaele Poidomani who spent part of his youth in the house of Via Santa Teresa.

In Ragusa in a house of the current via Roma was born Giovanni Antonio Di Giacomo, known as Vann’Antò, a leading figure of the Sicilian poetry of the XXth century.

In Pozzallo was born Giorgio La Pira, an illustrious politician and man of culture. It is possible to visit the House of Memory, which recounts the life and social politic commitment of La Pira.

Comiso, birthplace of Gesualdo Bufalino, who himself defined it as a Theatre City: “Because in every corner, you can see or attend a show.”

In Syracusa, birthplace of Elio Vittorini. It is pleasant to walk in the historical district Mastrarua, and admire the many historic buildings and visit the house where the writer spent his youth.

Vizzini, Catania and Acitrezza. Places of the realism of Verga. In Vizzini you can see the house where Giovanni Verga lived part of his life, the square of Santa Teresa and the ancient village of Cunziria, “Cavalleria Rusticana” and many other places of the region still existing which gave the context of his stories (The home of Lola, The tavern ‘Nunzia GNA, The Trao Palace and City Hall).

A Catania you can visit the birthplace of Giovanni Verga, headquarters of the Verga Museum.

In Acitrezza pour revivre l’atmosphère du roman “I Malavoglia” qui est empreint de tout le pays: les rues, la place, la fontaine, l’église et le Museo Casa del Nespolo.