A noblewoman carried this town's name all the way into a royal palace: Lucia Migliaccio, Duchess of Floridia, morganatically married King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies in 1814, and Naples' hilltop Villa Floridiana is named after her title. The Sicilian fief behind that title is today's town of 22,685 residents.
Founded in the seventeenth century and rebuilt on a grid after the 1693 earthquake, like the rest of the Val di Noto, Floridia keeps its chessboard layout and a dialect that calls it Ciurìddia. Syracuse is fifteen minutes away, and the town remains its most immediate agricultural hinterland.
Near Floridia
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
