5 Tips to Make the Most of Visiting Ragusa, Sicily, Ragusa, Italy

Sicily is a place that’s guaranteed to deliver tourists some jaw-dropping scenery. If my posts on Sicily show you anything, I’m sure it’s that. And yet, among the various scenic places I visited around the island, one destination clearly stands apart. That destination is the hilltop city of Ragusa, a place you need to visit simply to see for yourself. You won’t want to miss visiting Ragusa as it’s a picture-postcard combination of elegant Baroque architecture and faded Sicilian character.

Like Noto and other places in the southeast of Sicily, this city is part of the UNESCO-recognised Val di Noto area known for its Baroque architecture. But the city is so much more than that, mainly thanks to the way the landscape carves it up. See, there are two distinct parts to the city. Climbing a lower hill you have the historic Ragusa Ibla, the city’s historic centre. Watching over it you have the (more) modern part of the city called Ragusa Superiore, that’s still centuries old.

Normally, I try to avoid being superficial and provide depth related to a destination’s history and culture. But since the majority of things to do in Ragusa relate to its scenery and atmosphere, there’s not much else to say. To that end, here are my tips to best enjoy the incredible panoramas and setting encountered when you visit Ragusa, a place definitely worth visiting. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).