🧀Ragusano DOP

Known for it

• Ragusa

  Province: Ragusa · 502 m

  Two cities split by a ravine on a Hyblean plateau at 502 meters, both rebuilt after 1693 and both UNESCO Baroque.

Inside the production zone

Towns of ours that the Ragusano DOP zone covers, read from the denomination’s own published rules. Lying inside a zone is a smaller claim than being the place people mean when they say the name, which is why these sit apart from the ones above.

• Ispica

  Province: Ragusa · 170 m

  A Val di Noto Baroque hilltown on the southern Iblei plateau anchored by the 13-km Cava d'Ispica canyon with its 3,000+ rock-cut tombs and prehistoric dwellings, one of the largest cave-necropolis sites in the Mediterranean.

• Modica

  Province: Ragusa · 296 m

  A vertical Baroque city in the Hyblean Mountains, rebuilt from the 1693 earthquake and home to a chocolate recipe brought from Aztec Mexico.

• Noto

  Province: Siracusa · 152 m

  The capital of Sicilian Baroque, rebuilt entirely in golden limestone after 1693.

• Palazzolo Acreide

  Province: Siracusa · 670 m

  An 8,000-resident hilltop town on the Iblei plateau at 670m, rebuilt entirely in late Baroque after the 1693 earthquake and founded over the Greek Akrai colony in 664 BC, with a Greek theatre and a cluster of rock carvings unlike anything else nearby.

Catalogue note: this is what we can document, not everything that qualifies. Where a zone is written in law as a whole province rather than a list of communes, we never expand it to towns, so a town missing here has not been ruled out. Plenty of comuni inside the wider zone also sit outside our catalogue of 1,000. See how the data is sourced.