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The city has two distinct areas, the lower and older town of Ragusa Ibla, and the higher Ragusa Superiore (Upper Town). The two halves are separated by the Valle dei Ponti, a deep ravine crossed by four bridges, the most noteworthy of which is the eighteenth-century Ponte dei Cappuccini .
The province of Ragusa (Italian: provincia di Ragusa; Sicilian: pruvincia 'i Rausa) was a province in the autonomous region of Sicily, Italy, located in the southeast of the island. Following the abolition of the Sicilian provinces, it was replaced in 2015 by the free municipal consortium of Ragusa (Italian: libero consorzio comunale di Ragusa ).
The University of Ragusa (Italian: Università di Ragusa) is a university located in Ragusa and Ragusa Ibla, Italy, and founded in 1998. This university depends on Catania University and it is the most recent university in Sicily.
Hybla Heraea or Hybla Hera (Greek: Ὕβλα Ἡραία or Ὕβλα Ἥρα) was an ancient city of Sicily; its site is at the modern località of Ibla, in the comune of Ragusa. There were at least three (and possibly as many as five) cities [ 1 ] named "Hybla" in ancient accounts of Sicily which are often confounded with each other, and ...
Villa Zinna is a 17th-century country estate located in the Zinnafondo / Zannafondo county in the Province of Ragusa, Sicily.. Formerly a property of the order of the Knights of Malta, it was then absorbed into the Catholic Order of the Jesuits.
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Pages in category "Ragusa, Sicily" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Ragusa Ibla; K. Kamarina Regional Archaeological Museum; M.
Ragusa was partly rebuilt on its old site to the medieval plan (Ragusa Ibla) and partly on a new, but neighbouring site, to a 'modern' plan (Ragusa Superiore). [10] The degree and extent of the damage caused by the earthquake prompted an architectural revival in the towns of Sicily and Malta, a style that has become known as Sicilian Baroque. [22]