{"id":37426,"date":"2020-07-31T12:54:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T10:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/?p=37426"},"modified":"2022-01-24T11:49:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T10:49:48","slug":"modica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/en\/modica\/","title":{"rendered":"Modica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>County capital, <strong>Modica<\/strong> has been one of the historical and economic heart in Sicily, qualified outstanding and passed down by the massive <a href=\"https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/en\/baroque-in-sicily\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>baroque<\/strong><\/a> treasure of magnificient <strong>Duomo di San Giorgio<\/strong> and the impressive <strong>Duomo di San Pietro<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>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 <strong>Castello dei Conti di Modica<\/strong>, whose the Torretta dell\u2019Orologio is the city emblem.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_37416\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/modica-san-pietro.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37416\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-37416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/modica-san-pietro-216x300.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.visitsicily.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/modica-san-pietro-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"835\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27600%27%20height%3D%27835%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20600%20835%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27600%27%20height%3D%27835%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/modica-san-pietro-200x278.jpg 200w, https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/modica-san-pietro-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/modica-san-pietro-400x557.jpg 400w, https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/modica-san-pietro-600x835.jpg 600w, https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/modica-san-pietro-736x1024.jpg 736w, https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/modica-san-pietro-768x1069.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/modica-san-pietro.jpg 796w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Duomo di San Pietro a Modica &#8211; ph Paolo Barone<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is quite impossible not to mention the cave inhabited during the prehistorical era, the necropoly and the archeologycal sites. <strong>Cava Ispica<\/strong> is at the same time natural entertainment and valuable evidence of the bronze era.<\/p>\n<p>Modica is a taste trove too, with its <a href=\"https:\/\/visitsicily.altrama.com\/en\/sapore\/modica-chocolate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>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.<br \/>\nIts stunning seaside hamlets, applicant scenery in the famous series <strong>Il Commissario Montalbano,<\/strong> make it one of the most requested touristic place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>County capital, Modica has been one of the historical and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":44479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"luogo":[],"stagione":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Modica - Visit Sicily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Modica - 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