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If you’re on vacation to Sicily this year then be sure to make time to visit the chocolate making town of Modica!

This pretty Baroque style commune was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site list in 2002 and when you see it for yourself, you’ll have no doubt why!

Choose from a lovely selection of holiday villas in Modica where you can spend a few glorious days exploring all this intriguing town has to offer.

Modica is tucked within the mountainous area of Monti Iblei along with other populous towns.

Italy is an absolute paradise for food lovers and, as a result, we decided that it might be a good idea to compile a list of foodie experiences that are a must for those holidaying in the land of crowd pleasing meals.

If you feel like eating the best ice-cream in the world, for example, you should find a luxury villa in San Gimignano, as, located in the central Piazza della Cisterna, is the Gelateria Dondoli or Gelateria di Piazza. This little shop is known all over the world and has been visited by a large number of celebrities over the years. It has won countless awards, invents flavour combinations that attract gourmet-lovers to the town on a regular basis and has made it World Champion on two occasions. Arguably, this is one of the best places in the entire world to try some ice-cream. Owned by Sergio Dondoli, one of just ten Master Ice-cream Makers in Italy today, the gelateria places importance on passion and creativity and they are constantly innovating new flavours and recipes.

Modica is a city and comune in Ragusa, Sicily. Combined with other towns in the Val di Noto, it is considered a UNESCO World Heritage site for its astounding Baroque architecture in the historic centre of the city. One of the most beautiful cities you could ever hope to visit, it is all arranged on a hillside with amazing views across the surrounding landscape. However, one of the things that the city is most famous for is actually some of its local cuisine. Modica's chocolate has a fascinating history going back to the Aztecs and even has a festival dedicated to chocolate in December.

The stunning city of Ragusa has lived through an exciting past and is brimming with exciting things for tourists to see and do! Situated in the Val di Noto in the South Eastern part of Sicily, tourists have a superb choice of holiday villas in Ragusa to choose from where they can base a relaxing and enjoyable stay.

A once geographically united city, a terrible earthquake in 1693 destroyed much of the area and tore a huge ridge between it. The survivors of this disaster managed to pick themselves up again and decide what they were going to do. Some headed up to the newly formed ridge and began building new homes there and others remained behind to clean up and rebuild the old city.

Everyone has heard of werewolves right? In Italian they’re called ‘Lupo Mannaro’. In ancient Roman times these creatures were actually believed to be living among humans! Werewolves by definition are men that were born with the ability to turn into nights of a full moon or other magical nights of the year.

Strangely, Christmas night on the 25th December was considered a prime night for men/werewolves to be born!

Why not stay in a glorious holiday villa in Sicily where many mythical stories of these creatures were born!

Lots of people prefer to holiday outside of the peak tourism months and May is a great time to plan a trip to Italy as the real tourist crowds have yet to descend but the temperatures have begun to get rise in earnest, prices for flights and accommodation remain a little lower, and, as the season is just about to turn, you get the best of both spring blooms and beauty and summer fun. A luxury villa in Sicily, in particular, is perfect for a May getaway and if you are spending time in Sicily during the third week of the month there is one town that you should definitely visit, Noto.

Noto is a beautiful town with cinematic good looks that features UNESCO-awarded Baroque architectural gems and very pretty and typical winding little streets. In May, it becomes even more beautiful when the annual Infiorata di Noto festival takes place and the scent of flowers becomes heavy in the air. Infiorata happens in cities all over Italy in May and June and is a festival of floral art displays, with works of art created from flower petals to adorn city streets and historic buildings, but the Infiorata celebration in Noto is the most famous of all.