Sfincione soft focaccia with tomato, onion, anchovies and caciocavallo
Tall, soft bread dough, tomato, onion, anchovies, oregano and caciocavallo: sfincione is Palermo's focaccia, cut into squares.
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Ragusa is the southernmost provincial capital in Italy, and the province around it, together with Syracuse next door, is where the country runs out of land. The southern edge faces the open Mediterranean, while inland the ground rises into the Hyblaean uplands. Only twelve municipalities make up the province, the fewest in Sicily, home to a little over three hundred thousand people between them.
Ragusa, Modica and Scicli once belonged to the Val di Noto, a district of the old Kingdom of Sicily, and UNESCO listed them together in 2002: the baroque churches are what most visitors come for, from San Giorgio cathedral to Santa Maria delle Scale. Away from the towns, the Castello di Donnafugata rewards the drive out, the Museo archeologico ibleo covers the older layers, and the province ends at the sea in Pozzallo.
Towns in the province of Ragusa
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The top 20 places in Ragusa
Our editors' ranking: the area's most important places, drawn from the individual town guides. See the national rankings →
1 🏰 Castles & palaces castello di Donnafugata 📍 Ragusa A 19th-century aristocratic residence near Ragusa featuring over 120 rooms, a historic park, and a stone labyrinth. 
2 ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries cattedrale di San Giovanni Battista 📍 Ragusa The late Baroque cathedral of Ragusa Superiore, recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Val di Noto. 
3 ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries chiesa di San Francesco all'Immacolata 📍 Ragusa Built in the 13th century, Ragusa's Church of San Francesco all'Immacolata retains its original Gothic portal. - 4 chiesa di San Giuseppe Ragusa · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 5 chiesa di Santa Maria dei Miracoli Ragusa · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 6 chiesa di Santa Maria dell'Itria Ragusa · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 7 chiesa di Santa Maria delle Scale Ragusa · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 8 chiesa di Santa Maria di Gesù Ragusa · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 9 duomo di San Giorgio Ragusa · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 10 Giardino Ibleo Ragusa · 🌿 Gardens & spas
- 11 Grotta delle Trabacche Ragusa · 🏺 Archaeological sites
- 12 Museo archeologico ibleo Ragusa · 🖼️ Museums
- 13 Museo archeologico regionale di Kamarina Ragusa · 🖼️ Museums
- 14 Torre Cabrera Ragusa · 🏰 Castles & palaces
- 15 Castello dei conti di Modica Modica · 🏰 Castles & palaces
- 16 chiesa del Carmine Modica · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 17 chiesa di San Domenico Modica · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 18 chiesa di San Giovanni Evangelista Modica · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 19 chiesa di Santa Maria del Gesù Modica · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
- 20 chiesa di Santa Maria di Betlem Modica · ⛪ Churches & sanctuaries
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🍝 At the table: Sicily
Arancina fried rice ball stuffed with meat ragù
Saffron rice, ragù with peas and caciocavallo cheese inside a golden crust. Round and feminine in Palermo, pointed and called arancino in Catania: the quarrel is serious.
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Arancino fried rice cone stuffed with ragù, pointed like Etna
Saffron rice, ragù with peas and caciocavallo inside a golden cone-shaped crust: in Catania it is masculine and pointed, and the quarrel with Palermo over the name is serious.
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Saint Blaise, patron of a town called Biscari until 1938
📅 Every year, on 3 February
Acate celebrates Saint Blaise on 3 February; the town, which bore the name Biscari until 1938, was first recorded as a fief in 1299, when Charles II of Anjou granted it to Gualtiero Pantaleone.
Saint Blaise, patron of a church built over a Byzantine temple
📅 Every year, on 3 February
Comiso celebrates Saint Blaise on 3 February; the church dedicated to him, begun in 1500, stands on the ruins of the very ancient Basilian church of Abraxia, from the 3rd-4th centuries.
Saint Joseph and the age-old patroness Rosalia
📅 Every year, Saint Joseph on 19 March, Saint Rosalia on 4 September
Santa Croce Camerina celebrates Saint Joseph on 19 March, patron since 1994, and Saint Rosalia on 4 September, called the age-old patroness in the mother church; both have a statue in the temple.
The Madonna delle Milizie, the patroness on horseback who defeated the Saracens
📅 Every year, on the last Saturday of May
Scicli celebrates the Madonna delle Milizie on the last Saturday of May: legend has it that in the 1091 battle against the Saracens, led by the emir Belcane, the Virgin came down to help the Christians on a white horse, armed with a sabre. The city's co-patron is Blessed Guglielmo Buccheri, to whom the ancient mother church is dedicated.