Scicli (Ragusa Province) is 25 km from Ragusa, alt. 106 m, in the south Monti Iblei, at the point where the San Bartolomeo and the Santa Maria la Nova quarries encounter the River Modica, area 137.5 sq km, pop. 25,498, post-code 97018, tel. 0932. Economy: Agriculture (greenhouse horticulture); plastics and parasiticides.
A Sicel settlement, an Arab village, and later a royal city under the Normans, it was given by Frederick II of Aragon to the Count of Modica. It was seriously damaged by the earthquake in 1693 and to a large extent rebuilt with a new street layout which is easy to distinguish from the mediaeval arrangement because of the presence of baroque architecture.
Of interest: Town Hall, Palazzo Spadaro
Churches (Noto Diocese) include the following:
Events: The Madonna di Milici is the spectator-protagonist of a costume pageant, the Sagra di Milici, which every year in the month of June re-enacts the battle down in the plain between Saracens and Normans. The Normans won the day.
Links to other sites about Scicli include:
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