A few snapshots below capture some of the excess of Sicilian Baroque splendour and also the faded beauty of everyday streetscapes in three charming towns in Sicily's South East.
I spent time, last May, in this golden corner of Sicily – three nights in Modica (which I have written about in a previous blog) a few hours in the centre of Scicli (where they happened to be filming Montalbano that very day) and an afternoon of slow walking in Ragusa Ibla where I discovered the lovely Villino Arezzo (not Baroque but Art Nouveau) and the elegant public gardens, Giardino Ibleo.
Modica
Duomo San Giorgio
Modica from the steps of San Giorgio
Chiesa San Pietro
Statues on the steps of Chiesa San Pietro
San Giorgio
Stepped Backstreet
Looking to San Giorgio
Arch over Via Clemente Grimaldi
Streetscape
Over rooftops to a noble building
Backstreet
Near the centre
Backstreet bouganvillea
Scicli
Palazzo Beneventano
Church on Via Francesco Mormino
Detail Palazzo Beneventano
Moorish head Palazzo Beneventano
Ragusa Ibla
Palazzo della Cancelleria
Chiesa Santa Maria dell'Itria
Villino Arezzo
Giardino Ibleo
Giardino Ibleo
Salve,
Suzanne