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Noto
A golden Baroque town rebuilt after an earthquake, a UNESCO showpiece of honey-coloured façades.
7 km · about 10 min drive
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Avola
Sicily, Italy · Europe
About Avola
Avola works well as a base: 10 minutes from Noto, 23km from Syracuse.
Avola is in Sicily, Italy, with about 29,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Noto, about 6 km away.
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What is there to see near Avola?
Within an hour or so of Avola: Noto (7 km), Marzamemi (19 km), Ortigia, Syracuse (22 km), Syracuse (23 km).
Where is Avola?
Avola is in Sicily, Italy, about 6 km from Noto.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 28,666
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Italy
- Region
- Sicily
- Timezone
- Europe/Rome
- Coordinates
- 36.9084, 15.1394
Emergency & Services
Essential numbers in Italy
ACI roadside assistance: 803 116. ZTL (limited traffic zones) in city centres are camera-enforced.
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Worth the detour from Avola
6 notable places within an hour's drive.
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Marzamemi
17th-century tuna-fishery hamlet at Sicily's southeast tip, its golden-stone piazza and tonnara buildings ringing a tiny double harbour. Summer evenings fill the square with open-air trattorie serving bottarga and tuna 'ham'.
19 km · about 20 min drive
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Ortigia, Syracuse
The honey-stone island heart of ancient Syracuse, layering Greek temple, Baroque piazza and seafront in one.
22 km · about 25 min drive
ancient ruins
Syracuse
An ancient Sicilian city once rivaling Athens in power, with a stunning Baroque island center on Ortigia and vast Greek ruins.
23 km · about 25 min drive
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Antica Dolceria Bonajuto
Sicily's oldest chocolate house (1880), keeping alive Modica's Aztec-derived cold-worked chocolate: grainy bars spiced with cinnamon or chilli, plus 'mpanatigghi pastries filled with chocolate and beef. Down an alley off Corso Umberto in Modica Alta.
34 km · about 40 min drive
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Ragusa Ibla
The older, lower half of Ragusa: late-baroque palaces and stairways rebuilt after the 1693 earthquake, crowned by the Duomo di San Giorgio's wedding-cake facade. Best first seen from the Santa Maria delle Scale steps across the ravine.
35 km · about 40 min drive
Driving in Italy
- Drives on
- the right
- Petrol
- ~€1.82/litre
- Motorway tolls
- ~€8.50/100km
When to drive here
April to October
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