What to see · Modica

The fortress-prison that ruled the powerful County of Modica for centuries, with cells cut into the rock.

One of the few Modica monuments to survive the 1693 quake, with a late-Gothic portal and a Gagini Annunciation.

Modica's Dominican church, now the town hall, with a crypt rediscovered in 1972.

The mother church of upper Modica, the town's highest point at 449 m, with a dramatic staircase.

Modica's Franciscan church born for a royal wedding, with a late-Gothic cloister unique in southern Italy.

Modica's 14th-century collegiate church, with the late-Gothic Cabrera Chapel and a great Caltagirone nativity.

Sicilian Baroque icon and UNESCO site: Modica's mother church, with its 62-metre tower façade.

Modica's other mother church, San Giorgio's rival, with the apostle statues on its staircase and the Petra bell.

An early Bronze Age necropolis near Modica, with 87 rock-cut tombs of the Castelluccio culture.

The sanctuary of lower Modica, born in 1615 from the miracle of a Madonna tablet.