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We were invited to visit a store in Ragusa where we learned how tile squares are painted. Yours truly was invited to participate. It was a lot of fun.

Modica is a city in southeast Sicily, Italy. It’s known for its Baroque buildings, like the Cathedral of St. George. Featuring a working lab, the Chocolate Museum explores the city's history of chocolate-making.

Modica is a city in southeast Sicily, Italy. It’s known for its Baroque buildings, like the Cathedral of St. George. Featuring a working lab, the Chocolate Museum explores the city's history of chocolate-making.

The owners of these vintage cars, Members of the Associazione Fiat 500 Modican Club, in the town of Modica, took all of us on thrill rides driving up and down the narrow alleys of Modica. Modica like Ragusa consists of two major sections of town. A lower Modica and an upper Modica.

What a thrill and a beautiful driver with her own car.

Church of San Giorgio

Lined up and ready to take off in front of the Church of San Giorgio

We had a brief explanation by one of the owners how the engine of the Fiat 500 runs...

Looking across the city of Modica from above. Very dense city. We drove up through he city from the bottom of the hills you see.

From the top of the hill looking down into another view of the old town of Modica.

A little to the right of center photo is our bus parked on the highway. There is no way to get a large vehicle like the bus into Modica.

The next few photos show how difficult it is race through these narrow streets within the city.

Narrow passages.. Look at all the scrapes on the walls on each side.

One way traffic.

Narrower and steeper.

We stopped in town and walked back to find the best home made chocolate.

In the town of Ragusa at the DE Steffano Palace Hotel I had a room the size of a closet.. but the deck as you can see wrapped around the corner with view in all directions.

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