Modica is one of the most picturesque cities in the province and in all of Sicily.

It is located on the Southern side of the Iblean mountains and is divided in two original areas: Modica Alta (Upper Modica), whose buildings almost clamber up the rocks of the mountains, and Modica Bassa (Lower Modica), down in the valley, where once the rivers Ianni Mauro and Pozzo dei Pruni, flowed which were covered up at the beginning of the century because of the frequent floods, and where the Corso Umberto, main road and historic centre of the town, stands ...