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Noto
A golden Baroque town rebuilt after an earthquake, a UNESCO showpiece of honey-coloured façades.
13 km · about 25 min drive
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Rosolini
Sicily, Italy · Europe
About Rosolini
Rosolini works well as a base: 10 minutes from Ispica, 41km from Syracuse.
Rosolini is in Sicily, Italy, with about 20,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Ispica, about 6 km away.
Rosolini (Sicilian: Rusalini) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Syracuse,
Sicily, southern Italy. It is about 200 kilometres (120 mi) southeast of Palermo and about 40 kilometres (25 mi) southwest of Syracuse. Rosolini was a town in feudal times, and was a settlement in the late Imperial Roman andRead more
Byzantine Empire eras. In the 15th century, Rosolini was a fief of the Platamones. It was the Moncadas, in the year of 1713, which founded the newer town of Rosolini which we see today.
Rosolini borders the following municipalities: Ispica, Modica, Noto, Ragusa.
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Within an hour or so of Rosolini: Noto (13 km), Marzamemi (17 km), Antica Dolceria Bonajuto (18 km), Ragusa Ibla (22 km).
Where is Rosolini?
Rosolini is in Sicily, Italy, about 6 km from Ispica.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 19,721
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Italy
- Region
- Sicily
- Timezone
- Europe/Rome
- Coordinates
- 36.8214, 14.9513
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 Rosolini
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'.
17 km · about 20 min drive
cafe
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.
18 km · about 20 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.
22 km · about 25 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.
40 km · about 45 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.
41 km · about 45 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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