Sicily, Italy · Europe
Portopalo di Capo Passero is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Pachino, 46km from Syracuse.
Portopalo di Capo Passero is in Sicily, Italy, with about 3,400 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Pachino, about 5 km away.
Portopalo di Capo Passero (Sicilian: Puortupalu) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Syracuse, Sicily (Italy). The southernmost commune of the island of Sicily, it is about 220 kilometres (140 mi) southeast of Palermo and about 45 kilometres (28 mi) southwest of Syracuse. As of February 2017, it had aRead more
population of 3,916 and an area of 14.9 square kilometres (5.8 mi2). The nearest city is Pachino with a population of nearly 10,000. Portopalo belonged to the municipality of Pachino until 1975 when it became an autonomous municipality itself. Portopalo is widely considered to have some of the best fishing that the Mediterranean area has to offer because of its location, connection of the Ionian and Mediterranean Seas and its subtropical climate, which provides average temperatures between 12° and 27 °C.
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Within an hour or so of Portopalo di Capo Passero: Marzamemi (7 km), Noto (24 km), Antica Dolceria Bonajuto (39 km), Ortigia, Syracuse (44 km).
Portopalo di Capo Passero is in Sicily, Italy, about 5 km from Pachino.
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ACI roadside assistance: 803 116. ZTL (limited traffic zones) in city centres are camera-enforced.
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landmark
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'.
7 km · about 15 min drive
landmark
A golden Baroque town rebuilt after an earthquake, a UNESCO showpiece of honey-coloured façades.
24 km · about 30 min drive
cafe
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.
39 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
The honey-stone island heart of ancient Syracuse, layering Greek temple, Baroque piazza and seafront in one.
44 km · about 50 min drive
landmark
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.
44 km · about 50 min drive
ancient ruins
An ancient Sicilian city once rivaling Athens in power, with a stunning Baroque island center on Ortigia and vast Greek ruins.
46 km · about 55 min drive
April to October
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