Modica
Baroque and chocolate
- Type
- Towns
- As the crow flies
- 31 km
- Direction
- west
The name probably comes from the Sicel Mùrika, bare rock, and points to the hills and limestone quarries where the town climbs across two levels.
A Unesco site since 2002 along with the other Val di Noto towns, for the wealth of late Baroque buildings raised after the 1693 earthquake. See the San Giorgio Cathedral in Upper Modica and the San Pietro mother church in Lower Modica.
The stop nobody skips is the chocolate tasting, cold worked by a method of Aztec origin that arrived here with the Spanish.
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