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Duomo di San Pietro a Modica – ph Paolo Barone<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":44479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"luogo":[],"stagione":[],"class_list":["post-37426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-senza-categoria-en"],"acf":{"sottotitolo":"rich in history and architecture,","titolo_paragrafo_1":"Detail","paragrafo_1":"

County capital, Modica<\/strong><\/a> has been one of the historical and economic heart in Sicily, qualified outstanding and passed down by the massive baroque<\/strong><\/a> treasure of magnificient Duomo di San Giorgio<\/strong> and the impressive Duomo di San Pietro<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

To the several and valuable religious sites, rich in history and architecture, matches a valuable heritage of civilian and military buildings, as the ruins of Castello dei Conti di Modica<\/strong>, whose the Torretta dell\u2019Orologio is the city emblem.<\/p>\n

It is quite impossible not to mention the cave inhabited during the prehistorical era, the necropoly and the archeologycal sites. Cava Ispica<\/strong> is at the same time natural entertainment and valuable evidence of the bronze era.<\/p>\n

Modica is a taste trove too, with its chocolate<\/strong><\/a>, requested world wide, obtained by and ancient and orginal aztec recipe and celebrated from a great successful kermesse. Exquisite meat and cheese of the local cattle breed can be also tasted.
\nIts stunning seaside hamlets, applicant scenery in the famous series Il Commissario Montalbano,<\/strong> make it one of the most requested touristic place.<\/p>\n","galleria":false,"localizzazione":"

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