Val di Noto - Val di Noto

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Val di Noto

Regions

The part of Sicily that was called Val di Noto until 1812 (on a map from 1720)

It Val di Noto was until 1812 a province on the Italian island of Sicily and covered about part of the island. The word "Val" in the name here does not mean "valley", but goes back to an Arabic word for an administrative area. The area that made up this former province is, in terms of the current provinces of Sicily (with the World Heritage cities in brackets):

The entire province Ragusa of modica, Ragusa and Scicli;
The entire province Syracuse of noto and Palazzolo Acreide;
The south of the province Catania of Caltagirone, Catania and Militello in Val di Catania;
The south of the province And after (without World Heritage);
The south of the province Caltanissetta (without World Heritage).

Towns

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Catania.
Militello in Val di Catania.
Caltagirone.
Palazzolo Acreide.
Scicli.
noto.
Ragusa.
modica.

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Info

The late baroque towns of the Val di Noto lie on the Italian Island Sicily. The eight cities were inscribed on the World Heritage List of . in 2002 UNESCO posted. A separate article is devoted to each of them in Wikivoyage; see Caltagirone, Catania, Militello in Val di Catania, modica, noto, Palazzolo Acreide, Ragusa and Scicli. The towns have in common that they were destroyed by an earthquake in 1693 and then rebuilt in a late Baroque style in a short time, often in new locations.

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To look at

Cathedral Sant'Agata-Catania
Cathedral San Giorgio-Ragusa
Cathedral San Giorgio-Modica
Santuario Santa Maria della Stella-Militello in Val di Catania
Chiesa di San Paolo-Palazzolo Acreide
Cathedral-Caltagirone
San Giovanni Evangelista-Sciclic
Noto example of the Sicilian late Baroque style

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