In a dominant position on the Hyblaean Mountains and the southernmost provincial capital of Italy, Ragusa has an ancient history marked at the end of the eighteenth century by a terrible earthquake that completely destroyed the city. Its reconstruction, in particular that of the settlement of Ragusa Ibla, led to the creation of an invaluable architectural heritage, in pure Baroque style, enrolled in the list of UNESCO World Heritage as the largest site for the number of buildings surveyed. If that wasn't enough, here are four good reasons to get to know the city:

1) Admire the impressive architecture of the cathedral, dedicated to S. Giorgio is built at the end of the seventeenth century; characterized by a tower façade of majestic beauty, the cathedral is placed at the end of a high staircase, in position oblique to the square below, which accentuates the impression of majesty of the building;

2) See the most touching testimony of the great earthquake of the late seventeenth century, the magnificent Gothic portal of St. George, the only surviving part of the church built in the twelfth century; the building was no longer rebuilt, but the new cathedral of Ragusa Ibla was dedicated to S. Giorgio;

3) Visit the grandiose cathedral of S. Giovanni Battista, built in Ragusa Superiore at the beginning of the eighteenth century, adorned with a facade rich in carvings and sculptures and a majestic bell tower of over 50 meters, on which stands out the great dome of the late eighteenth century;

4) Overcoming the vertigo and walk the three bridges that connect the city with the south side beyond the deep valley of Holy Sunday: the Ponte Vecchio (or of the Capuchins), mid-nineteenth century, the Ponte Nuovo, from the thirties of the twentieth century and 40 meters high, and the Ponte Nuovo, built in a single bold span in the 1960s..