Città del Pane
Città del Pane in Sicily
3 towns
Sicily has 3 Città del Pane communes in our index. They are in the Catania, Ragusa, and Trapani provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Modica, Nicolosi, and Castelvetrano.
The towns
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.
Nicolosi
Province: Catania · 698 m
The southern gateway to Etna at 698 meters, twice destroyed by the 1669 eruption.
Castelvetrano
Province: Trapani · 187 m
The Belice valley town that owns Selinunte, the largest archaeological park in Europe, and bakes black bread from grain found in its tombs.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Capriate San Gervasio
Province: Bergamo
The Bergamasco town that holds Crespi d'Adda, the late-nineteenth-century company village inscribed by UNESCO in 1995 as a model workers' settlement.
Taverna
Province: Catanzaro
A hilltown at the foot of a mountain plateau, its stone core arranged around a fifteenth-century Dominican church.
Grottole
Province: Matera
A hilltop borgo at 481 meters between the Bradano and Basento, where six hundred empty houses outnumber residents in the centro storico.
Controguerra
Province: Teramo
A 267-meter hill village whose name is legal shorthand for a small Montepulciano and Trebbiano-Passerina DOC.
Roccamandolfi
Province: Isernia
At 850 meters at the foot of Monte Miletto, a Matese village of brigand legends, Lombard ruins, and a Tibetan bridge over the Callora canyon.