Ragusa - Italy

Ragusa (RG)

Sicily (Italy)

Ragusa (Rausa in Sicilian) is a common capital of the province in Sicily, is situated on the south side of the mountains Iblei and is the seventh municipality in the area by number of inhabitants.
It is the most prosperous town in southern Italy, is called the city of bridges for the presence of three structures very picturesque, but it was also defined by writers, artists and economists as the island or another island Sicily, thanks history and a socio-economic context is very different from the rest of the island, a devastating earthquake in 1693 caused the almost total destruction in the city, claiming more than five victims.
The reconstruction, which took place in the eighteenth century, divided into two districts, one part Upper Ragusa, lying on the other and Ragusa Ibla, risen from the ruins of the city and rebuilt according to the ancient medieval layout.
The architectural masterpieces built after the earthquake, along with all those present in the Val di Noto, gave birth to one of the largest sites of UNESCO world.