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Arcibessi

Second Iblean summit with its considerable 906 meters above sea level. A dense pine forest cover sit and makes it extremely suggestive. On the mountain you find many nivere, refrigerators that were...

Camarina Archaeological Museum

Il museo si trova sul promontorio di Cammarana, sito abitato dall’età del bronzo antico alla modernità. E’ ospitato in una masseria ottocentesca, sull’acropoli dell’antica città greca, che...

Casasia mountain

Archeological mountain, at 730 meters above sea level, a center of the ancient Siculi people dating to (X a.C. ?) that today appears well covered by reforestation. On the slpoes of the mountain you...

Dirillo (river and lake)

River of historic importance as it served as a way of communication between the coast and the hinterland, the ancient inhabitants of Sicily. Starting from the meeting of the Amerillo and the Vizzini...

Ethnographic Ibelo museum

A Modica, nel settecentesco Palazzo dei Padri Mercedari (del XVIII secolo che durante la peste del 1709 fu adibito a lazzaretto) è ubicato il Museo delle Arti e delle Tradizioni popolari. In questo...

Irminio river

    The Irminio River is born in the Iblean mountains near Mount Lauro, and it is the longest river in the province of Ragusa. The natural area is found at the mouth of the river and...

Ispica canyon (Cava d'Ispica)

Typical Iblean mountain canyon, carved by millennia of erosion by the river Pernamazzoni in its upper parts and by Busaitone in the lower parts.    It is  one of the most picturesque...

Kamarina

Kamarina Near the African sea is where you find Kamarina, Siracusan colony of the 6th century BC.  It was a very important Siceliot city (Greeks of Sicily) founded by the Siracusani around 598 BC...

Kasmenai

Kasmenai Greek city of Sicily (Syracuse colony founded in 644 BC) which is located in extraordinary landscape: that of Monte Casale, at 830 meters above sea level, in what was an age old volcanic...

Lauro mountain

It is the highest peak of the Iblean mountains, reaching to 986 meters above sea level. The name is derived from the Latin, Laurus ‘laurel’, because in the the past there were many of this tree...

Museo Archeologico Ibleo

  Il museo illustra l’archeologia e la storia antica del territorio della provincia di Ragusa, dal neolitico fino alla tarda antichità. Il museo si articola in sei sezioni. Sezione 1 Le...

Pino D'aleppo

  The reserve occupies the lower part of the Ippari River and falls in the area between the town of Vittoria and its mouth. It was established to safeguard what is considered the last...

Randello canyon

    Beautiful stretch of the Mediterranean situated between Braccetto and Scoglitti, two pearls close to the sea of Ragusa. It is established in this corner of paradise, with its pine...